Cluster 4: Range of Reading and Level of Text ComplexityArchived

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Number: LAFS.2.RI.4
Title: Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Type: Cluster
Subject: English Language Arts - Archived
Grade: 2
Strand: Reading Standards for Informational Text

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Access Points

LAFS.2.RI.4.AP.10a
Choose informational text to read and reread, listen to or view for understanding.
LAFS.2.RI.4.AP.10b
Choose text to read and reread, listen to or view for informational purposes (e.g., to answer questions; to understand the world around them).
LAFS.2.RI.4.AP.10c
Discuss key details and main topic of an informational text.

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Lesson Plans

Use the Force! Racing Zucchini:

Students will be investigating the effect of various pushes and pulls on on objects and seeing that the greater the force applied, the greater the change in motion. Students will be using hands-on activities and then build and race their own zucchini car to better understand the concept of force and motion.

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Ants in Your Pants! - Part 2:

In this lesson, students will learn how to find the central idea of the passage, Ants in Action. Students will also discuss what makes a fluent reader and participate in paired reading with a partner.

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Ants in your Pants! - Part 3:

Now that your students have become interested in this amazing animal, it is time to learn more by starting a research project. Students will use multiple sources and a graphic organizer to record new facts about ants in preparation to complete an expository writing piece in the next lesson.

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It's Attracted:

In this lesson, students will use informational text to gather information on objects made of matter that have properties that make them either attracted or not attracted to magnets.

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Student Center Activities

Comprehension: Plenty of Predictions:

In this activity, students will make and confirm predictions before, during, and after reading teacher-selected text (narrative or expository) using a graphic organizer.

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Comprehension: Strategies Game:

In this activity, students will use multiple reading strategies to answer questions and comprehend text.

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Comprehension: Question Cards:

In this activity, students will answer questions to comprehend text.

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