Learning Lessons With Amy Labrasciano: cause and effect

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Cause and Effect - ELA Lesson Plans #16

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: Penguins, Cold Weather Penguins, Warm Weather Penguins, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Informational Writing, Opinion Writing. Your second grade students will love the lessons and activities shared here. These lesson outlines are added and updated almost each week.

Hi everyone! I hope that your new year is off to a great start! This week is all about penguins and informational text. I love this time of the year because we can tackle several standards in one week and the students are well on their way to working effectively and independently. Their third grade teachers will be pleased. We start the week off by bribing a staff member to deliver a frozen or very cold package that is marked "URGENT". Inside is a letter and penguin articles. The letter is from my "good friend" Dr. Hanson who is noticing effects from climate change and wants our class to investigate whether or not penguins could move to a warmer climate. The students are so excited to not only receive the package, but also to help solve the cute little penguin's problem. We'll be exploring key details, compare/contrast, connecting events and response to text. The students will carry their learning over into writing where they research and choose a topic about penguins to write about. Students who finish their work on time will get to make a penguin cover for their writing. They love that part. I'll post pictures below that show some of the activities will have during our independent time.

For the materials that I used this week, click on the picture below.

Arctic Animals - ELA Lesson Plans #13

It's that time of year again. You know the time where you have a ton on your plate, the kid's lose their minds and all your interim assessments come due. Yet we still want to make everything in class as magical as possible. It's because of all of those facts that I make my lessons as engaging, simple and short as possible. My lessons will be 20 minutes to hold student's attention. My text will be available in my classroom library or print and teach because I need to keep extra work to a minimum. Below you will find my December calendar. Can you believe I've planned a month out?

Each day this week we will be learning about a new arctic animal. I'll have differentiated text for the students and a graphic organizer. You can see them in the picture below. On Friday students will get to chose an animal of their choice to research and make a poster about. They'll have a graphic organizer to help guide them when creating the poster. Each lesson is short, meaningful and engaging. Click on the picture below if you want to see the resource that I'm using.

Writing is getting serious. Students have come a long way since the beginning of the year. Now it's time for some of the students to learn how to structure a paragraph. We will extend our reading into writing where students will write about an arctic animal of their choice. We'll make book covers to put the writing in. I'm using a fabulous resource by More Time 2 Teach.

Each day my students who don't lose Dojo points will get to make a page marker like the ones shown below. Most of the easier ones take under 10 minutes to create. The first couple of days we will start with simple plain ones. The students will be able to sell their page markers at our classroom market day with classroom currency. It's a great way to tie in behavior and social studies. The how to video came from Red Ted Art on Youtube. You can link to her account by clicking on the link in my Instagram post.

My lesson plan templates can be found at TPT by A Modern Teacher.

Cause and Effect - ELA Lesson Plans #5

Hi everyone! I'm so sorry for missing the last two weeks. We had a horrible hurricane and I couldn't post my lesson outlines. The good news is that I'm back, and I may say this all the time, but next week is going to be so much fun!! I'm a huge proponent of engaging lessons that meet the student's needs while helping them to grow as learners. I'm also a sucker for thematic lesson plans and next week is a must for my students - Apple Week. Don't you find great joy in teaching fun topics?

Before we start talking shared reading, let me tell you about a couple of activities that we'll be doing. We will be sampling yummy crockpot applesauce. Of course I don't have the time to make it from scratch so I use jarred applesauce and warm it before the students arrive. They have never figured it out and I hope you don't tell them! We'll sample different varieties of apples and graph our favorites. We'll sample some apple candy and for incentives I'll pass out Apple Jacks. We'll also have a basket full of fun apple books.

The standard that we will be learning is a little more challenging than others, but still very engaging and interesting to students. We'll be taking a look at how events can connect through history and science. In order to do this, we'll look at John Chapman's life. The students will determine what each event causes later in John's lifetime. For example, it is believed that many apple orchards exist because of John's work. Without his travels we would not have had so many crabapples. We'll also be taking a look at how apples can add nutrition to our diets, the pollination process and the apple lifecycle. Just think of a time line and lifecycle wheel.

Once again writing will be an extension of our shared reading plans. Each day we'll be writing an informative piece on an apple page. When the students are done they we have an awesome apple book. Just look at it below!

I am super excited to give my students independent workstation materials that couple so well with our shared reading and writing. These centers will center around the five core components of reading: phonics, phonemes, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. I've spent a lot of time trying to create materials that work for each student, are engaging, purposeful and self explanatory. Thank goodness I finally figured it out. Click on the image below to find the unit.

To find the other materials that I used in these lesson outlines, click on the links below.