Instructional Focus Lesson Plan for Reading Comprehension

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Digital English

• Instructional Focus Lesson Plan for Reading
  Comprehension
• Grade 2

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Second Grade
Reading and Comprehension Standard 2.3
Use knowledge of the authors purpose(s) to
comprehend informational text.
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Two types of texts
Fictional Text

• Make believe or imaginary

• Created in the authors mind

• Written to entertain

Informational or Expository Text

• Based on facts

• Written to inform

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A Talent of His Own Hoppy Spider was the
oldest in his family. He had younger twin
brothers who got attention because they were
identical and a little sister who always got
complimented on her beauty. Hoppy wanted a
talent that would set him apart from his brothers
and sister. He entered a web-building contest.
He practiced day after day. When his friends
passed by he smiled and waved. On the day of
the contest Hoppy made his best web ever. The
judges gave him the best score and a first place
blue ribbon. Hoppys family crowded around
him and gave him lots of attention. They talked
about his great web making talent. Hoppys dream
had come true! He finally had a talent of his
own.
Example 1
Authors Purpose Entertain
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Example 2
Spiders You may think that spiders are
insects, but theyre not. An easy way to tell a
spider from an insect is by looking at the legs.
Spiders have eight legs and insects have six.
Spiders also have two main body parts while
insects have three. Spiders can be helpful.
They eat insects. This helps control the insect
population. Some spiders build webs to catch
insects. Others hunt their food. Spiders
can also be dangerous. One extremely poisonous
spider is the black widow. The black widow can
be recognized by a huge red hourglass shape on
its belly. It lives in a web.
Authors Purpose Inform
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Example 2
Spiders You may think that spiders are
insects, but theyre not. An easy way to tell a
spider from an insect is by looking at the legs.
Spiders have eight legs and insects have six.
Spiders also have two main body parts while
insects have three. Spiders can be helpful.
They eat insects. This helps control the insect
population. Some spiders build webs to catch
insects. Others hunt their food. Spiders
can also be dangerous. One extremely poisonous
spider is the black widow. The black widow can
be recognized by a huge red hourglass shape on
its belly. It lives in a web.
Spiders have eight legs
Spiders also have two main body parts
control the insect population. Some spiders
build webs to catch insects. Others hunt their
food.
lives in a web
Authors Purpose Inform
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