Students in Second Grade are seen here discussing a book on Mexico. They are working on building academic vocabulary and conversation skills through reading books related to their Social Studies curriculum.
The students are practicing the academic conversation skill of summarizing by asking and answering questions.
Examples of language:
Question: "What have we read so far?" Answer: "In summary..."
Q: "What have we discussed/read so far?" A: "In summary..." or A:"Based on the text, we can say that..."
Q: "What is the main idea?" A:"The main idea of the text seems to be..."
Q: "What is the text mostly about?" A:"This is mostly about..."
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Students in another Second Grade classroom are seen working to publish their narrative writing for sharing with parents.
Students learned expected language in narrative text (below).
Transition Words: First, Next, Then, After that, Finally
Grammar: simple past tense, irregular past tense verbs
Phrases: Last week, One day, On Saturday
