Lesson Plans

An integrated lesson comparing the butterfly and frog life cycles

A lesson plan for Grade 2 English Language Arts, English Language Development, Mathematics and Science

by Martha Dobson and Margaret Monds

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 2

  • Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective 4.04: Use oral communication to identify, organize, and analyze information.
    • Objective 4.05: Respond appropriately when participating in group discourse by adapting language and communication behaviors to the situation to accomplish a specific purpose.

English Language Development (2005)

Grade 2

  • Goal 1. Listening: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective NH 1.01: Listen and respond to familiar questions, greetings, and phrases if spoken very slowly and distinctly, using one-word responses, physical actions, and other non-verbal communication.
    • Objective NH 1.02: Understand and follow one-step and two-step directions and instructions with modeling and prompting when spoken slowly and distinctly.
    • Objective NH 1.03: Listen and demonstrate comprehension of oral presentations, stories, and/or familiar texts by responding to simple questions and statements.
  • Goal 3. Reading: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective NH 3.03: Print first and last name with some assistance.
    • Objective NH 3.04: Create artwork or illustrate comprehension of a familiar reading selection.
    • Objective NH 3.05: Read simple words and phrases representing learned vocabulary from a familiar reading selection.
    • Objective NH 3.07: Respond correctly to yes/no questions on images, sounds, activities, and oral expressions using simple and/or patterned text.
    • Objective NH 3.08: Recognize 10-15 common words, including own name and environmental print such as common signs, logos, labels and trademarks.
    • Objective NH 3.11: Draw and label pictures related to a story topic or own experience.
  • Goal 2. Speaking: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective NH 2.01: Begin to use simple words and phrases in addition to using physical actions and other means of non-verbal communication to ask questions to communicate basic needs and other social interactions with prompting and modeling (e.g., matching objects, pointing to answer, or draw pictures).
    • Objective NH 2.02: Use a variety of non-verbal communication strategies in addition to simple words and phrases to express own ideas or thoughts with prompting and modeling.
    • Objective NH 2.04: Begin to speak with a few words, using some English phonemes and rudimentary English grammatical forms with prompting and modeling.

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 2

  • Goal 4. Speaking: Data Analysis and Probability - The learner will understand and use data and simple probability concepts.
    • Objective 4.01: Collect, organize, describe and display data using Venn diagrams (three sets) and pictographs where symbols represent multiple units (2's, 5's, 10's).

Science (2005)

Grade 2

  • Goal 1. Speaking: The learner will conduct investigations and build an understanding of animal life cycles.
    • Objective 1.02: Observe that insects need food, air and space to grow.
    • Objective 1.04: Compare and contrast life cycles of other animals such as mealworms, ladybugs, crickets, guppies or frogs.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 2

  • Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective 4.04: Use oral communication to identify, organize, and analyze information.
    • Objective 4.05: Respond appropriately when participating in group discourse by adapting language and communication behaviors to the situation to accomplish a specific purpose.

English Language Development (2005)

Grade 2

  • Goal 1. Listening: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective NH 1.01: Listen and respond to familiar questions, greetings, and phrases if spoken very slowly and distinctly, using one-word responses, physical actions, and other non-verbal communication.
    • Objective NH 1.02: Understand and follow one-step and two-step directions and instructions with modeling and prompting when spoken slowly and distinctly.
    • Objective NH 1.03: Listen and demonstrate comprehension of oral presentations, stories, and/or familiar texts by responding to simple questions and statements.
  • Goal 3. Reading: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective NH 3.03: Print first and last name with some assistance.
    • Objective NH 3.04: Create artwork or illustrate comprehension of a familiar reading selection.
    • Objective NH 3.05: Read simple words and phrases representing learned vocabulary from a familiar reading selection.
    • Objective NH 3.07: Respond correctly to yes/no questions on images, sounds, activities, and oral expressions using simple and/or patterned text.
    • Objective NH 3.08: Recognize 10-15 common words, including own name and environmental print such as common signs, logos, labels and trademarks.
    • Objective NH 3.11: Draw and label pictures related to a story topic or own experience.
  • Goal 2. Speaking: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective NH 2.01: Begin to use simple words and phrases in addition to using physical actions and other means of non-verbal communication to ask questions to communicate basic needs and other social interactions with prompting and modeling (e.g., matching objects, pointing to answer, or draw pictures).
    • Objective NH 2.02: Use a variety of non-verbal communication strategies in addition to simple words and phrases to express own ideas or thoughts with prompting and modeling.
    • Objective NH 2.04: Begin to speak with a few words, using some English phonemes and rudimentary English grammatical forms with prompting and modeling.

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 2

  • Goal 4. Speaking: Data Analysis and Probability - The learner will understand and use data and simple probability concepts.
    • Objective 4.01: Collect, organize, describe and display data using Venn diagrams (three sets) and pictographs where symbols represent multiple units (2's, 5's, 10's).

Science (2005)

Grade 2

  • Goal 1. Speaking: The learner will conduct investigations and build an understanding of animal life cycles.
    • Objective 1.02: Observe that insects need food, air and space to grow.
    • Objective 1.04: Compare and contrast life cycles of other animals such as mealworms, ladybugs, crickets, guppies or frogs.