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📖 2nd Grade · ELAW.2.7Unit 9: Research & informative writing

Choosing a research topic

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🎯 Objective: Students choose an animal or place to research.

Lesson outline

  1. Wonder wall.
  2. Choose an animal or place.
  3. Write three questions.
  4. Exit: three questions.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

W.2.7

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 2 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Participate in shared research
  • Write informative texts with facts, definitions and a conclusion

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Animals📚 All 2nd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Research & informative writing”

  1. Choosing a research topic
  2. Taking notes
  3. Writing an introduction
  4. Facts and definitions
  5. Conclusion and publishing

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