Giant Panda Reports

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Giant PandaReports
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Mrs. NeinersSecond Grade ClassRoom 10

• Barnard Elementary
• Mandarin Chinese Magnet School

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Focus Standards

• English-Language Arts
• Students Progress through the stages of
  the writing process.
• (e.g., prewriting, drafting,
  revising, editing, successive versions)
• group related ideas and maintain a
  consistent focus.
• Create readable documents with legible
  handwriting.
• Revise original drafts to improve
  sequence and provide
• descriptive detail.
• Speak clearly and at an appropriate
  pace.
• Social Studies
• Students demonstrate map skills by
  describing the absolute and relative locations of
  people, places, and environments.

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Materials and Resources used

• Books
• Giant pandas Gifts from China by
  Allan Fowler
• Animals in Danger Giant Panda by Rod
  Theodorou
• The Little Panda by Harley Chan
• Internet
• www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/panda.htm
• www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wi
  ldlife/pada.php
• www.surfnetkids.com/pandas.htm
• Other Materials
• Chart paper
• Large Cue cards
• NEOS

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Collaborative process

• Students will take notes during read alouds,
  shared readings, and during independent
  reading.
• Students will will work through the writing
  process of Prewriting, drafting, editing,
  revising and final drafting.
• Students will do an oral presentation of
  their reports.

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Taking Notes
Read Aloud
Shared REading
Independent Reading
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Drafting

• Students are using their notes to help
  them
• organize the information into paragraphs

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Peer editing and revising

• Students help each other
• edit and revise their drafts.

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Final Drafts

• Students are writing their final drafts using
  their edited and revised drafts.

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Technology
Students are using their laptops to type out a
draft of their reports.
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Using Maps

• Students are locating the panda reserves in
  china on the world map and globe.

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Text Features

• Students illustrate information from their
• report and write a caption to go with it.

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Oral Presentations
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The Process at a Glance
Text features
prewriting
Final Draft
drafting Editing Revising
Typed Draft
Finished Product