Read, Write & Learn from Fiction/Traditional Literature
This unit should be paired with the Reading Foundations which focus on the acquisition of phonological awareness and phonics which are essential foundations for reading and writing. It is essential that these skills are not taught in isolation, but applied within students reading and writing.
Unit description: Students will be reading traditional literature from around the world. They will be learning about important story events, examining how a character responds to challenges, studying the features of literary text, and determining the central idea. They will use the knowledge that they have acquired to help them write their own personal narratives.
Download the complete Grade 2 ELA Unit 3 framework to customize for your own planning.
Essential Outcomes
Reading
- 2R2: Identify a main topic or central idea and retell key details in a text; summarize portions of a text.
- 2R3: In literary texts, describe how characters respond to major events and challenges.
Reading Foundations- Fluency
- 2L3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening
- 2L5: Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings
Language
- 2W3: Write narratives which recount real or imagined experiences or a short sequence of events, including details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings; use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
Writing
- 2W4: Create a response to a text, author, theme or personal experience (e.g., poem, play, story, artwork, or other).
Speaking and Listening
- 2SL6: Express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly, adapting language according to context.
All Standards Addressed in this Unit
- See Reading Foundations Units: RF3, 2RF3a, 2RF3b, 2RF3c, 2RF3d, 2RF3e
- 2R1, 2R2, 2R3, 2R5, 2R9
- 2RF4
- 2L1, 2L2, 2L3, 2L4, 2L4b, 2L4c, 2L5, 2L5a, 2L5b, 2L5c, 2L6
- 2W3, 2W4
- 2SL1, 2SL4, 2SL6
Essential Questions and Big Ideas
- How do readers understand traditional literature?
- Readers use strategies to summarize story events in sequence to determine the central idea.
- Readers identify how a character changes according to events in a story.
- How is a text organized?
- Texts have a beginning, middle, and end.
- Stories follow the main character through a sequence of events, engaging the reader through these experiences and through the characters emotions.
- How do readers make connections to texts?
- Readers and writers make connections between stories, to their own lives and the to the world around them.
- How do writers create personal narratives to tell a story?
- Writers will write narratives with a beginning, middle, and end.
Download the complete Grade 2 ELA Unit 3 framework to customize for your own planning.