Close Reading Learning Tasks
Grade 2 Unit Life Cycle
Learning Activities
Reading
Using Close Reading Sequence - read, take
notes, discuss and respond to each section of
text
Resources
The Tall Pine and The Big Eagle
Close Reading #1
The Tall Pine and The Big Eagle
(Suggested pacing, if needed)
Pages 3-5
See word document for text, or whole
Collaborative
Conversations
Use the following questions to focus your
reading, talking and writing after each
section:
1st Read: What does the text say?
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What is the main idea and an important
detail?
Collaborative Conversation:
● Partner talk using the sentence frames:
The main idea is___________________________.
An important detail is______________________.
Short Constructed
Responses/
Quick-Writes
Share Out
2nd Read: How does the text work?
Re-read the text. Circle words that you
are not sure of the meaning.
● Teacher may anticipate vocabulary:
seedling, sapling, trunk, wider
Collaborative Conversation:
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Whole class/pair share: What word was
tricky for you? How did you figure out
book on link below.
http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/eei/UnitDocs/G
rade02/22ab/22abReader.pdf
Close Reading #2
The Tall Pine and The Big Eagle
Pages 8-14
See word document for text, or whole
book on link below.
Standards
Close Reading Learning Tasks
Grade 2 Unit Life Cycle
the meaning? What clues in the text
that helped you?
After last reading (3rd Read):
What is evidence of a life cycle in the
text?
*After second text sample: How does the
life cycle in this text compare to the life
cycle in the Pine tree text?
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Partner talk:
They are similar because_______________.
They are different because_______________.
Culminating Activity
Students complete this activity once all reading
has been done.
Following close reads of two chunked texts,
write a paragraph comparing life cycles in pine
trees and eagles. How are the life cycles
similar? How are they different?
**Scaffolded Resources -(posted on ELA
Close Reading page- Trimester 2)
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Bald Eagle Activities:
http://www.brimfulcuriosities.com/20
11/05/bald-eagle-projects-activitiesand.html
Bald Eagle Research
Bald Eagle Writing Template
I’m a Little Pine Tree
Life Cycle of a Pine Tree
Tree Detective