ACTIVITIES WORKSHEET

 

                                                                                                                        Grade Level - 2

 

                                                                                                                        Course - Reading

 

                                                                                                                        Week Taught (2-35) - 18

 

State Standard: * Identify the purposes and types of text (e.g., literature, information) before reading.

 

 

St. Marys Standard: * 1.1.2A The student will be able to locate various texts, media and related resources for a specific reason before reading.

 

Essential Question:  What are the different types of text and the purpose for each?

 

 

Student will know: *

Student will be able to: *

the different types of text: fiction and nonfiction.

explain the purpose of each text.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assessment Question:*

 

1.  Paper/Pencil:** What is the difference between fiction and nonfiction?

 

     Answer:**  A fiction book is make-believe while a nonfiction book is based on facts.

 

2.  Performance Question:**  When taken to the school library, students will select an example of a fiction and nonfiction text, and be able to identify each specifically.

 

     Assessment Tool:**  Student mastery will be demonstrated by correct identification of selected texts.

 

Activity:  Review the difference between fiction and nonfiction, then ask students what they think a realistic fiction book is.  (Students would respond that it is a fiction story that could really happen).  Read the realistic fiction story, Matthew and Tilly, in which two friends begin to fight and call each other names because one of them accidentally breaks the other’s purple crayon.  After reading the story, ask students to describe how they would feel if they had been teased or called names by a friend.  Pair students up and have them role-play the situation in which Matthew breaks Tilly’s  crayon.  Instead of fighting, however, have the students find a better way Matthew and Tilly could have solved their argument by talking through their problem.

 

Duration: 1 hour

 

Resources for this activity: Reading story Matthew and Tilly from the Signatures Reading Series for second grade

 

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Code:        1.1.2A                                                                                 Date Developed: 2-10-03

 

Teacher Assigned:          Laurie Taylor                                 Date Approved: 06/03