Lesson Idea | What is Weather?
Provider: Mississippi Department of Education
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Selected for its free, Grade 2-friendly weather activities that build vocabulary, comprehension, writing, and collaborative reading skills
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This comprehensive Grade 2 English Language Arts weather unit introduces students to informational texts through engaging weather-themed activities, discussions, vocabulary development, reading comprehension, writing tasks, and collaborative learning experiences. Using texts such as Twister on Tuesday and Twisters and Other Terrible Storms!, students learn how to identify main topics, key details, and text features while building academic vocabulary and critical thinking skills. The lesson includes KWL charts, vocabulary word maps, Think-Pair-Share discussions, reading response journals, differentiated instruction strategies, phonics activities, weather research stations, creative extension tasks, and a wide variety of exit slips and assessment tools to support student understanding. Designed for Grade 2 learners, this unit combines literacy, science, speaking, listening, and writing skills while helping students explore how weather affects everyday life.
Standards
Focus Standard(s): RI.2.1, RI.2.2
Additional Standard(s): W.2.2, W.2.8
Lesson Idea | What is Weather?
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