2. PA Learning Standards for Early Childhood:
Second Grade
Key Learning Area: Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening
1.1 Learning to Read Independently
C. Demonstrate fluency, the ability to read grade level text orally with accuracy, appropriate
rate and expression
D. Demonstrate a rich listening and speaking vocabulary, the ability to understand and use
words to acquire and convey meaning
E. Demonstrates comprehension, the cognitive process involving the intentional interaction
between reader and text to convey meaning
1.2 Reading Critically in all Content Areas
B. Identify and use a variety of media to gain information
1.6 Speaking and Listening
A. Apply listening and speaking strategies effectively
B. Use electronic media for learning purposes
Citations
3. What is a neighborhood ?
What is a community ?
What is it like in a city ?
City Words
What can we see in
Chinatown ?
Word Search
Citations
9. What can we herbs
tai chi
see in
Chinatown ?
Chinese New Year
markets
celebration
seafood cobbler
wok
10. Citations
Buildings.100% Educational Videos, 2002. Video Segment.16 July 2010. <http://www.discoveryeducation
Chinatown.WGBH and Marc Brown Studios, 2004. Video Segment.16 July 2010. <http://www.discoveryeducation.com/>.
Chinese New Year Parade.WGBH and Marc Brown Studios, 2004. Video Segment.16 July 2010. <http://www.discoveryeducation
Fire Engine : Ext Of Fire Station: Distant Start Pull Away With Siren Horn Blasts Emergency Vehicle Truck. Sound Ideas, 2010. Sound
Effect.16 July 2010. <http://www.discoveryeducation
Homes.100% Educational Videos, 2002. Video Segment.16 July 2010. <http://www.discoveryeducation.com/>.
Lion dancers at Chinese New Year parade (3). 2005. Image.16 July 2010. <http://www.discoveryeducation
Neighborhoods and Communities.100% Educational Videos, 2002. Video Segment.16 July
2010. <http://www.discoveryeducation.com/>.
The New York City skyline with the World Trade Center. New York City. Jupiterimages Corporation, 2006. Image.16 July
2010. <http://www.discoveryeducation.com/>.
Tai Chi in the park 2007 Demonstration. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1I0rJnbpKU
Transportation in the City.100% Educational Videos, 2002. Video Segment.16 July2010. <http://www.discoveryeducation.com/>.
What Is a City?.100% Educational Videos, 2002. Video Segment.16 July 2010. <http://www.discoveryeducation.com/>.
Content Menu
Purpose: To show the standards incorporated into the slide show.
Purpose: To identify and use various media to gain information.Teacher will model how to manipulate the slide show so that students can do it again independently for reinforcement of the meaning of the vocabulary. The first two sections can be completed as part of the introduction to Theme 2 Around Town: Neighborhood and Community. The next three sections can viewed prior to reading the literature Chinatown.
Purpose: Increase vocabulary and the understanding of the word “neighborhood”.Students silently, then orally: Say the blue words. Read the center sentence. Discuss the relationship between the pictures and the word “neighborhood.” Think, pair, share the corner question.
Purpose: Increase vocabulary and the understanding of the word “community”. To understand the relationship between neighborhoods and a community.Students silently, then orally: Read the blue words. Read the top sentence. Discuss the community workers in the pictures. Read about “Wanda” and watch the video segment.Teacher: Show the students how to do the word search.
Purpose: To recognize the words for workers in a community. To use various media to gain information.This can be done by students independently. Remind students do close the site of the word search.
Purpose: To increase vocabulary and understand the characteristics of a city.Students: Read silently and aloud the colored words and question. Think, pair, share about the picture and why it looks like a city. Watch the video segment about a city. Read about Wanda. Watch each video segment about homes, transportation, and buildings in a city.
Purpose: To increase vocabulary and understanding of these words which will be used in students’ texts.Students will read silently and chorally the vocabulary words after viewing each picture. The teacher will hold up vocabulary cards with these words for the students to recite and use the words in oral sentences.
Purpose: To increase of vocabulary and the understanding of these words which will be used in their text. To appreciate cultural diversity.Students: Read silently and aloud the red word and the question. The teacher will read the colored words (vocabulary) as the students repeat each. Watch the video segment of Chinatown. Watch part of the video of tai chi and try some of the moves. Watch the video segment of a Chinese New Year. Teacher: Hold up vocabulary cards with these words for the students to recite and use the words in oral sentences.
