Writing an Informative Text About Humanity
Grade
Grade 2
UNIT
9
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Humanity
Unit 9, Lesson 3, “Writing an Informative Text About Humanity,” reinforces the vocabulary word humanity. Students will write an informative text in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
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SUGGESTED TIME:
20 minutes
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Demonstrate comprehension of the word humanity.
- Write an informative text about humanity that introduces the topic, uses facts and definitions to develop points, and provides a concluding statement or section
- Demonstrate understanding of standard English sentence structure and grammar
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
- Prohuman Grade 2 Unit 9 Worksheet 3: Writing an Informative Text About Humanity
VOCABULARY:
- Humanity: I see that every person is special. People are more alike than unalike. We all need to work together to make our lives better.
ELA COMMON CORE STANDARDS MET
CHARACTER AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL (CSED) NATIONAL STANDARDS MET
LESSON PROCEDURE
Today we will write an informative text that features four facts we learned from the book If the World Were a Village by David J. Smith. An informative text introduces a topic, uses facts and definitions to develop points, and provides a concluding statement or section.
- Write on the board: Writing an Informative Text about Humanity
- Let’s work together by filling out our worksheet.
Topic: The book If the World Were a Village helps us to understand humanity by imagining the whole population of the world as a village of just 100 people.
Fact 1: Of the 100 people in the imaginary global village, 60 are from Asia.
Fact 2: Of the 100 people, 15 are from Africa. - Now each student will finish this informative text, on their worksheet, by writing two more facts and a conclusion about what they learned about humanity from the book If the World Were a Village by David J. Smith.
NOTE: Collect and keep the worksheet on the following page for the next day’s lesson in which students will share their informative texts with a partner.
GRADE 2 UNIT 9 WORKSHEET 3: WRITING AN INFORMATIVE TEXT ABOUT HUMANITY
Humanity: I see that every person is special. People are more alike than unalike. We all need to work together to make our lives better.
ACTIVITY: Write an informative text with four facts you learned about the world’s people from the book If the World Were a Village by David J. Smith.
Topic:
Fact 1:
Fact 2:
Fact 3:
Fact 4:
Conclusion:
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