St. Patricks Day Ireland Clovers Rainbows Mega Reading Bundle RI.2.2 Main Topic

When reading a text, it's important to know what it's all about. Determining the main topic and key details is an important standard in second grade. Get your kids learning with this the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows 2nd-grade nonfiction text for RI.2.2 main topic and key details. This bundle has all that you need to help with identifying the main topic and supporting details while also reading about many different topics.

The topics covered in this bundle are:

-The History of St. Patrick’s Day

-All About Ireland

-All About Clovers

-All About Rainbows

For each topic, you will have a text that is written on three different reading levels. These leveled texts help to make the lessons more accessible for multiple students. After reading about the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows, introduce the meaning of main topic, key detail, and minor detail. Sort key details from minor details with helpful the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows-themed worksheets. Go over how to find the main topic of a paragraph while reading about the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows. types of questions Record the main topic and key details for the different texts on cute main topic recording papers that are the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows-themed. There are exit tickets and coloring pages as well. Read below to find out more about what is included.

Each resource topic has 22 Unique pages and 102 total pages. Because there are 4 resources with this the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows bundle, that means that there are 88 Unique pages and 408 total pages with this bundle.

Documents are available in full color, ink-saving color, black and white, and ink-saving black and white

Answer sheets are available where applicable

A Lesson Plan is provided

WHAT'S INSIDE?

Each Resource in this bundle includes:

• 1 the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows-themed Unit Cover Poster

• A Main Topic Lesson Plan for RI.2.2

• 1 Large the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows-Themed Poster

• 1 the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows-themed Nonfiction Reading Text about the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows [on 3 reading levels high, mid, low]

• 16 Vocabulary Cards [8 word cards, 8 definition cards] *Some resources have more vocabulary than others

• 1 Vocabulary Visualization Paper for the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows

• 1 Read the Vocabulary Word Paper for the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows

• 1 Fill in the Vocabulary Word Paper for the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows

• 3 Definition Cards [Main Topic, Key Detail, Minor Detail]

• The history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows-Themed Key Details/ Minor Details Sort

• The history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows-Themed Identify the Topic of Paragraphs Worksheet

• The history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows-Themed Main Topic and Key Details Recording Paper

• Early Finisher the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows-Themed Coloring Page Writing Prompt

• 3 the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows-Themed Main Topic Questions Exit Tickets

The mid-level text can be compared with: 2nd grade, age 7-8, lexis 810, AR 2.5, DRA 28, Fountas & Pinnell L, reading recover 20, PM readers 22 gold

These units were originally made for 2nd grade but can be used with many elementary grades and possibly even an advanced preschooler.

Each resource topic has 22 Unique pages and 102 total pages. Because there are 4 resources with this history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows bundle, that means that there are 88 Unique pages and 408 total pages with this bundle.

Documents are available in full color, ink-saving color, black and white, and ink-saving black and white

Answer sheets are available where applicable

Lesson Plan provided

TELL ME MORE

Each resource in this history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows bundle includes two posters. These posters can help you to introduce the topics of the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows. This includes one decorative poster which is the cover for the unit. The unit covers include images and a title for the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows. Then there is another poster that helps you to introduce the main vocabulary word and subject for the unit. This vocabulary word will be or be related to the main topic for the units the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows.

Each resource contains its own nonfiction text about the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows. The nonfiction texts about the different topics are available in high, mid, and low versions. The text content is the same for each version but the words and sentence structures are different from text to text. Each text has introductions, main body paragraphs, and conclusions. The same vocabulary words are used throughout the texts within each resource but vary from resource to resource.

Speaking of vocabulary, there are 16 vocabulary cards per resource. There are 8 word cards and 8 definition cards with pictures to help with understanding. The vocabulary words included are different for each resource but are from the texts about the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows. These words are used frequently throughout all the resources to make sure kids get lots of practice with them. Play a game such as Pictionary or charades with the cards or reinforce understanding. There is also a vocabulary drawing paper included to help kids visualize the word meanings. Students will choose tricky words and help to visualize the meaning by drawing a picture to help them remember. An additional paper with sentences using the vocabulary words is also included. Students will practice reading the vocabulary words in the sentences. There is also a paper where students can practice filling in the correct vocabulary words to complete a sentence. A word box of the vocabulary words is provided.

What learning goals are addressed in these resources?

RI.2.2 Identify the main topic of the multi-paragraph text about the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

These resources include the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows-themed lesson plan for RI.2.2 Identify the main topic of the multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. This lesson plan explains how to use all the resources in this lesson. You can, of course, pick and choose which parts of the lesson you want to follow. If you have taught a previous version of this lesson using one of my other resources, you will find this layout to be similar.

Introduce RI.2.2 Main Topic & Key Details with three definition cards: Main Topic, Key Detail, and Minor Detail. These cards are similar for each resource but include different examples, pictures, and backgrounds for the different topics of the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows. Each card comes in a large version but there is also a one-page printable version that has all three cards on it. You can therefore use these cards as posters to hang in the room as a reminder during the lesson. Or you can hand out the small cards to kids to use in groups or individually.

Once kids know the main topic, key details, and minor details, it’s time to practice. Each resource has a worksheet for students to practice sorting minor details from major details. These sorts include details from the main texts about the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows but sometimes add details as well. An answer sheet is provided. Because it can be somewhat subjective, I allow kids to explain why they think something is a key detail if they vary from what I thought the answer should be. The important thing is that they understand the core of the concept. It’s not a huge deal if there’s one detail they think could be sorted differently.

Before we are able to understand the whole text, it’s important we know what a paragraph is about. Next, each resource has a worksheet where students can work with identifying the topic of different paragraphs. These paragraphs are mostly from the main texts about the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows. They may be reworded slightly to make the topic more obvious. Again there is an answer sheet provided but the answers may vary slightly since this is an open-ended worksheet where they write their own answers.

Now they are ready to read the main text and identify the topic. They can use the adorable the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows-themed recording sheets to write the main topic and key details for the main texts. Each recording sheet has space to write the main topic as well as three key details. I tell students that there may be more than three key details, but we only need to record three of the most important. I find that giving them too many details to write often leads to them writing down minor details. I have a student who loves to write details and he often records more than one per box which is also okay. The reason I chose three is because this follows the typical structure of a short text with an introduction, three main body paragraphs [3 key details], and a conclusion.

For early finishers, each resource includes the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows-themed coloring page with a short writing prompt as well. There are three different the history of St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, clovers, and rainbows-themed main topic exit tickets for each resource. These help with quick assessment of student understanding.

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