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Unit at a Glance Grade 2: Unit 2: Personal Narrative

Unit 2: Personal Narrative

Introduction

Second graders recognize personal narrative features during this unit. In Reading Workshop, students identify elements ofnarrative stories. They contribute to the community of learners by sharing personal experiences, insights, and perspectivestowards stories. They also continue to develop strategies to comprehend text. In Writing Workshop, they learn crafts toimprove their writing skills and analyze other narrative text and learn to incorporate techniques of writing in their work.

As with all units of study, use these lessons as a guide. Adapt the lessons to meet your students needs and make the unit yourown. Depending on your students background and interest, add, eliminate, or modify lessons. The unit is expected to take fiveto six weeks to complete.

Cultural Competency (CC) connectionThe lessons throughout this unit are deliberately designed to promote the goals ofcultural competency. This icon identifies strategies and materials that address these goals.

English Language Learner (ELL) connectionThese planning guides were written to intentionally integrate transitioning ELLsneeds. The star symbol indicates a strategy and/or additional support essential for transitioning ELLs and embeddedthroughout the lessons. These suggestions may also benefit other learners. The Notes column shows details and reminders

related to ELL strategies, as well as additional information for teachers working with different student populations.

Standards

Standard 1: Students read and understand a variety of materials. Standard 2: Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences. Standard 3: Students write and speak using formal grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling. Standard 4: Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. Standard 5: Students read to locate, select, and use relevant information from a variety of media, reference, and technological sources. Standard 6: Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.

Reading Workshop: Big Ideas Writing Workshop: Big Ideas

Make text-to-self connections. Read personal narratives and identify attributes for personal narrative

writing.

Continue to develop reading strategies for decoding and comprehension. Use sequence of events to retell story with simple narrative structure. Answer questions to understand a story. Discuss important characters in a story. Use schema and inference as they visualize.

Write from own experiences. Focus on small moments rather than bed-to-bed stories (focused

narrative).

Tell story with sequence of events that has beginning, middle,and ending.

Create attribute charts and/or rubrics. Use writing techniques, such as effective leads and endings, rich

words, and figurative language.

Revise for making sense, answering readers questions, showingnot telling, adding detail, and developing characters.

Share and talk about their writing daily.

Reading Resources Writing Resources

Making Meaning, Second Grade Variety of big books Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, Second

Edition, by Adrienne Herrell and Michael Jordan

America's Choice, Genre Study: Personal Narrative, Grade 2,Version 2

Using Rubrics to Improve Student Writing, Grade 1,New Standards, NCEE

Student narrative samples

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Reading

Workshop Lesson 1:

Identifying the

Goal of Reading

Lesson 2: Thinking

Before We Read

Lesson 3: Making

Text-to-Self

Connections

Lesson 4: Making

More Text-to-

Self Connections

Lesson 5: Retelling

in Response

to Literature

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Writing

Workshop

Lesson 1: Telling

Our Stories

Lesson 2: What

Writers Write

About

Lesson 3: Moments

that Lead

to Stories

Lesson 4:

Expanding

Topics

Lesson 5: Modeling

a Draft

ReadingWorkshop

Lesson 6: Exploring

During-Reading

Strategies I

Lesson 7: Exploring

During-Reading

Strategies II

Lesson 8:

Explaining

Your Thinking

Lesson 9: Retelling

a Story with

a Narrative

Structure

Lesson 10: Telling

the Main Idea

when

Responding to

Literature

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Writing

Workshop

Lesson 6:

Organizing with

a List

Lesson 7: Using

Cause and Effect

I

Lesson 8: Using

Cause and Effect

II

Lesson 9: Writing

Problems and

Solutions

Lesson 10:

Developing

Setting

ReadingWorkshop

Lesson 11: Using

Context Clues I

Lesson 12: Using

Context Clues II

Lesson 13:

Visualizing ILesson 14:

Visualizing IILesson 15:

Summarizing

When

Responding to

Literature

Les

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Writing

Workshop Lesson 11:

Descriptive

Writing

Lesson 12: Using

Unforgettable

Language

Lesson 13: Writing

EndingsLesson 14: Writing

Great Beginnings

Lesson 15:

Identifying

Narrative

Attributes

Reading

Workshop Lesson 16:

Visualizing

Strategy

Practice

Lesson 17:

Explaining

Character

Importance

Lesson 18:

Identifying

Character

Motivation

Lesson 19: Using

Text Talk

to Increase

Vocabulary

Lesson 20:

Visualizing

Our Response to

Literature

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Writing

Workshop

Lesson 16: Seeing

Characters in

the Minds Eye

Lesson 17:

Exploring

Characters

in Books

We Read

Lesson 18:

Identifying

Characters

We Write About

Lesson 19:

Exploring How

Characters Learn

and Change

Lesson 20:

Analyzing How

Characters Come

Alive

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Reading

Workshop

Lesson 21: Making

Inferences about

Characters

Lesson 22: Finding

Evidence from

the Text

Lesson 23:

Identifying

Characterization

through Dialogue

Lesson 24:

Self-Monitoring

Beyond Word

Level

Lesson 25:

Reflecting

as a Reader

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Writing

Workshop

Lesson 21:

Creating

a Personal

Narrative Rubric

Lesson 22: Using a

Rubric to Revise

Lesson 23: Editing

Lesson 24:

Celebrating

Our Writing

Lesson 25:

Reflecting

about Personal

Narratives

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