2nd Grade Oral Language

Community Connections

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  Invite a storyteller to the class to share how stories can be developed through oral communication throughout generations.
  
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  Invite a news reporter to the class to share how listening and speaking skills assist in his/her job.
  

Small Group Learning

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  Have the groups of students share the newly created story with classmates using a microphone.
  

Vocabulary

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  The students need to know the following vocabulary: logical, statement.
  

Student Organization of Content

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  Have students write their statement(s) on sentence strips to visually form the story.
  

ORAL LANGUAGE Lesson Plan  What’s Going to Happen Next?

Organizing Topic Oral Communication
Related Standard(s) of Learning 2.1, 2.2

Objective(s)

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  The student will continue to expand listening and speaking vocabularies and will develop reading comprehension.
  

Prerequisite Understandings/Knowledge/Skills

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  Students are expected to know how to summarize and predict what happens in a story.
  
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  Students are expected to know what a definition is.
  

Materials needed

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  Picture book
  

Lesson procedure

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   Select a picture book filled with rich vocabulary and vivid pictures to share with the class. Before sharing the story, read it and make note of new vocabulary words that you want to teach. Also, determine good stopping places for making predictions. (Stop often enough to monitor comprehension, but do not disrupt the story.)
   
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   Read the selected story to the class. When you come to words that are unfamiliar to the students, ask them to predict the meanings, based on the context of the story. Guide the students into discovering word meanings, rather than simply giving them definitions.
   
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   Stop at appropriate places, and ask a student to summarize what has been happening in the story. Ask another student to make a prediction about what may happen next. After more reading, ask if the predictions were correct. If the predictions were incorrect, ask a student to describe what actually happened in the story.
   
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   Continue reading and making predictions throughout the story. Model making predictions so the students can see that this is a strategy employed by proficient readers.