2012-2013

Meeting the Needs of 2nd Grade’s High- Ability and High- Achieving Students

Overview

As 2nd grade teachers, there are many opportunities to meet the needs of students who are high-ability or high-achieving. Next year, we will continue to work to include these opportunities in:

Projects Stations Homework Technology

Projects

Depending on the project and the class interests, there are extension opportunities readily available throughout the course of the project. For example-, Farmer’s Market (money), Space Night

(movie making), Cookbooks (measurement and sequencing), Lemonade Day (animal research)

Students work in groups and have assigned or chosen positions in those groups that include being the : Station Leaders Project Managers

Communication

Presentations throughout the year Town Hall Meetings

Presentations of what is happening in 2nd grade Announcements

Community visitors Connections to project Presenting our needs/ goals

Projects- Project Managers Farmer’s Market- product design and creation Promote the Vote- community connections Healthy Cookbooks- recipe substitutions and sales Lemonade Day- Animal research and sales

Stations

Each day in second grade, the students rotate through 8 stations. Four Language Arts stations in the morning Four Math/ Project stations in the afternoon

In each station, there is a task or activity to complete either within that day or within that week.

The activities are set up to meet the needs of many different learners.

Reading

Reading Leveled readers and comprehension packets or activities related to

the reading. Usually connected to a 20-30 minute whole group lesson before

stations begin. Connected to project

Self-Selected Reading AR books and quizzes on students’ reading levels

Working with Words Each week includes a regular 2nd grade list and a challenge list

The challenge list includes words above grade level and connected to our project

Writing Rubric Extension activities

Math

Math Journal Connected to EM series

Project Connection Apply the skill or concept to a real-life situation in our

project For example, while studying money, they practiced

giving change with play money for particular purchases.

Skill Application The skill from EM is applied in a real-life situation,

game or extended to the next level.

Math cont…

Everyday Math Online Skill practice online Grade levels can vary based on the skill and students’

needsDIBELS

Skills/ concepts Patterns Quantity discrimination Adding and Subtracting with regrouping and

borrowing Math Facts

Science/ Health and Social Studies

Often applied during stations or project timeCommunity connections often create

opportunities to expand on a skill or concept Reading during LA stations based on reading

level

Homework

Modified for needs of studentsSpelling-Challenge list

Spelling CityMath focused on same skill and concept with

the class, but at 3rd grade level and upRead 20 minutes each night

AR leveled readers

Technology

2nd Grade Expectation Microsoft Word

Size, font, color, writings PowerPoint Our website

This year, some 2nd graders learned or mastered: PREZI Microsoft Publisher Windows Movie Maker Google Earth Audacity Microsoft Word

Insert pictures, paragraphing

Questions?

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