Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about Grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
❏ Participate in collaborative conversations
❏ Help develop rules for discussions
❏ Build on others’ talk in conversations
❏ Ask questions to clear up any confusion about the topics and texts under discussion
❏ Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults
❏ Understand agreed-upon rules for discussions
❏ Determine how to relate comments to the remarks of others
❏ Determine the need for clarification and further explanation for the topics and texts under discussion
❏ In small groups, participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults
❏ In larger groups, participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults
❏ Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions
❏ Consistently demonstrates grade-level proficiency
❏ Link comments to the remarks of others
❏ Consistently demonstrates grade-level proficiency
❏ Ask for clarification and further explanation as needed about the topics and texts under discussion
❏ Demonstrates grade-level proficiency with increasingly complex texts, topic, and/or task
❏ Demonstrates grade-level proficiency with increasingly complex texts, topics, and/or tasks
❏ Demonstrates grade-level proficiency with increasingly complex texts, topics, and/or tasks
❏ Demonstrates grade-level proficiency with increasingly complex texts, topics, and/or tasks
❏ Ask questions to check understanding of information presented
❏ Stay on topic
❏ Evaluate ideas or details for their importance
❏ Identify key ideas or details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media
❏ Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media
❏ Consistently demonstrates grade-level proficiency
❏ Demonstrates grade-level proficiency with increasingly complex texts, topics, and/or tasks
❏ Determine the main ideas of a text read aloud
❏ Determine the main ideas of information presented in diverse media and formats:
❏ Visually ❏ Quantitatively ❏ Orally
❏ Evaluate the details for their relevance to the main ideas
❏ Determine the supporting details
The teacher models how to build a conversation by linking their comments to the remarks of others. As he/she models, the teacher creates an anchor chart of possible sentence starters that will help students link their thoughts with others. Examples include, “I agree
with what ______ said because _____” and “When _____ said _____, it made me think _____.” Students actively listen by looking at the speakers, taking turns talking, and sharing the floor with classmates to understand other comments and decide if they can add something new or relevant to a discussion.
In the Classroom:
The teacher models for students how to listen carefully and then talk about important information and ideas. The teacher models for students how to be an active listener by watching a video on a science or social studies topic to determine key ideas and details. While watching, the teacher models for students how to take notes about important information and recount the key ideas and details to others in your own words.
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Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent and complete sentences.
❏ Monitor comprehension of what the speaker says
❏ Ask questions about what a speaker says
❏ Answer questions about what a speaker says
❏ Determine when:
❏ Clarification is needed ❏ Additional information is needed
❏ Gather additional information
❏ Clarify comprehension
❏ Deepen understanding of a topic or issue
❏ Consistently demonstrates grade-level proficiency
❏ Demonstrates grade-level proficiency with increasingly complex texts, topics, and/or tasks
❏ Monitor comprehension of information from a speaker
❏ Ask questions about information from a speaker
❏ Answer questions about information from a speaker
❏ Offer appropriate elaboration and detail
❏ Produce complete sentences
❏ Identify a story or personal experience to tell
❏ Speak audibly in coherent sentences
❏ Tell a story or recount an experience
❏ Identify the appropriate facts for telling a story or recounting an experience
❏ Identify the appropriate relevant details for telling a story or recounting an experience
❏ Identify the appropriate descriptive details for telling a story or recounting an experience
❏ Tell a story or recount an experience with:
❏ Appropriate facts
❏ Relevant details
❏ Descriptive details
❏ Consistently demonstrates grade-level proficiency
❏ Demonstrates grade-level proficiency with increasingly complex texts, topics, and/or tasks
❏ Speak clearly in complete sentences
❏ Identify a topic or text on which to report
❏ Report on a topic or text
❏ Speak at an understandable pace
The teacher models for students how to actively listen by taking notes on information presented from an audiobook or video. He/she then models turning the notes into questions to clarify the information presented. Students work with partners to generate questions.
During a presentation, students use graphic organizers to record questions about the topic or information. After the presentation is complete, students take turns asking the questions they recorded on their graphic organizers.
The teacher provides opportunities for students to present to classmates about familiar topics. The teacher facilitates opportunities for students by having them work in groups to share photos about memorable experiences and participate in book talks.
The teacher provides students with examples of incomplete sentences. Students work with partners to rewrite the sentences into coherent thoughts. Students then present the revisions to partners or the class while practicing adequate voice volume.