Disciplinary Unit: Geometry

Lessons 2 and 3

I. General Information:
Grade Level: 2
Discipline: Mathematics
Unit Topic: Geometry
Time Frame: 2 days (30 45 mins)
Text: The Greedy Triangle
Other Materials: copies of passages from the story
Construction paper, glue, copies of the graphic organizer, pencils

II. Essential Understanding/Questions:

Students will be able to ask questions, answer questions (who, what,
where, when, why) and how to demonstrate understanding of key
details in a text.
o Understand character, plot, and setting
o Analyze text information & illustrations to understand deeper
meaning of the story.
Use of appropriate vocabulary is necessary.

Questions:
Where is the passage did you find that key detail?
How do you know that is a key detail?
What clues do illustrations in the story provide to help you understand
the setting in the story?
What clues do the illustration in the story provide to help you
understand the characters in the story?
How do I reason with shapes and their attributes?

III. Standards/Indicators

RL 2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why
and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RL 2. 7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print
or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its character, setting, or plot.
2.G.1 Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a
given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles,
quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
W.2.2 - Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic,
use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding
statement or section.

IV. Lesson Objectives

Students will be able to read a given passage from the story with
assistance.
Students will be able to put the passages in order.
Students will be able to recognize content vocabulary and identify
shapes from the story.

V. Evaluation/Assessment:
Assessment of Objectives
Teacher will listen to students reading passages and listen for
fluency and understanding of their passage.
Once students are mixed in different groups teacher observation
will see if students are working together to put the passages in
order from beginning to end.
Students will be asked questions throughout the story about the
shapes they see and what is happening in the story.

VI. Procedures:
Introduction
Day 1 Introduce The Greedy Triangle to the class and explain to
students that we will be beginning our Geometry unit.
Teaching/Activities
Day 1 Have students turn and talk about what they already know
about geometry.
Teacher will read through the anchor text, The Greedy Triangle.
Teacher will put students into 4 groups with 4 different passages pull
from the text. (teacher will have already set groups with strong readers to
help those who struggle)
Each student will have a copy of the passage to read and write on if
they want. Students will read the passage several times as a group until they
feel confident to be able to read the text alone or with a buddy. Groups will
discuss the key details from their passages.
Each person in the group or partner pair will be partnered up with
students from the other groups. Each student coming to a new group will
have a different passage. Students will take turns reading the passages that
they have brought with them to the new group. Ask students what order do
you think these passages go in? What is happening in the story in your
passages.
Once students have read their passages to the new group they will
discuss key details in the passages to help them put the passages in order
from beginning to end. (Teacher observation and assistance will be available
for groups that need it)

Closure
Day 1 Students will glue the passages on construction paper
in the order that they believe they go in. Groups will share their passages to
the entire class and discuss why they feel the passages go in that order and
why and what they think is happening in the story.

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VI. Procedures:
Introduction
Day 2 - Students will get back into the groups they worked in the day
before to read the passages they practiced and discuss key details about the
story.

Teaching/Activities
Day 2: Teacher will reread The Greedy Triangle. Stopping
periodically to ask questions to the class about what is happening in the
story and have students make predictions about the main idea of the text.
Teacher will also be pulling out vocabulary from the text that students
will be seeing throughout the unit. (triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons,
hexagons)
Once teacher has finished the story, teacher will model the graphic
organizer - Frayer Model to have students complete the activity for one of
the vocabulary words they learned from the text today.
Closure:
Students will complete the graphic organizer (Frayer model) for their
independent work. Students pair share their organizers and the vocabulary
words they chose.
** Throughout lessons this week have copies of the passages available for
students to refer to

Resources

Burns, M., & Silveria, G. (2014). The Greedy Triangle. United States: Paw
Prints.

Frayer Model. (n.d.). Retrieved April 25, 2017, from

http://www.readingeducator.com/strategies/index.htm