Learning Lessons With Amy Labrasciano: Retelling

Click here to learn all about teaching ELA in the second grade classroom. These free and fun lesson outlines will detail curriculum and ideas for all informational, literature and writing standards in my 2nd grade elementary classroom. This week's lessons will be all about: Chinese New Year, Ruby Bridges main topic, asking and answering questions, recounting, retelling, lesson of the story and key details. Your second grade students will love the lessons and activities shared here. These lesson outlines are added and updated almost each week.

I don't know about you, but I am definitely glad Chinese New Year lasts for 15 days! Even though I'm a little late getting it on my lesson plans we always have an amazing time learning a little about the Chinese culture. We will celebrate on Tuesday by taking key details from the text to put together a Dragon Parade. The kids always have a ton of fun and they love learning about the holiday and culture. We'll also take a look at Run Away Rice Cake in order to recount the plot and lesson.

During the week we will have eggs in an incubator that we will be journaling about. You'll see more of my lessons next week.

This week during writing we will be writing an autobiography. I'll use Ruby Bridges as a mentor text and modeling with. my autobiography. The students really connect with Ruby and it's a great way to learn about another influential American.