Story Elements and Retelling: Finding the Message and Summarizing Events – 2nd Grade

Description

Overview

These two connected 45-minute Grade 2 Language Arts lessons use the story passage provided on the worksheet. Lesson 1 teaches students to recount story events and identify a story's lesson or message. Lesson 2 builds on that work by helping students summarize the same or another worksheet story using only the most important events and details.

What Students Will Learn

• Recount stories and identify the lesson or message.
• Summarize story events with important details.

What Is Included

• Teacher Guide
• Student Workbook
• Lesson 1: Recounting Events and Finding the Story Message
• Read: Maya and the Garden Seeds
• Write About the Story
• Story Words
• Lesson 2: Summarizing Important Story Events
• Write Important Events
• Read and Summarize: The Rainy-Day Garden

Lesson Overview

• Lesson 1: Recounting Events and Finding the Story Message (45 minutes)
• Lesson 2: Summarizing Important Story Events (45 minutes)

Designed For

2nd Grade students studying Story Elements and Retelling in Language Arts.

File Format

One downloadable ZIP containing two printable PDF files. The Teacher Guide contains 22 pages and the Student Workbook contains 7 pages.