Harcourt Trophies 2nd Grade @ The Virtual Vine

Harcourt Trophies

2nd Grade

This year I started doing inclusion with my 2nd graders for part of the day. Our 2nd grade uses Trophies, so I created some activities that were on the instructional level of my students but coordinated with the stories in the reader. You can find some of the activities here, and more activities specific to some of the stories can be found on the linked pages. I hope you find some things you can use in your classroom and if you have activities to share (on or below grade level), please do.

Links to Story Pages (AR level)
The Mixed - Up Chameleon (1.8)	Get Up and Go!
Henry and Mudge (2.3)	Frog and Toad (2.5)
Wilson Sat Alone (2.9)*	The Enormous Turnip (2.5)*
Helping Out (2.8)*	Mr. Putter and Tabby Fly the Plane (3.5)
Hedgehog Bakes a Cake (2.2)	Lemonade for Sale (2.8)
Johnny Appleseed (2.9)*	From Seed to Plant (3.4)
The Secret Life of Trees (3.5)	Watermelon Day (2.8)
Pumpkin Fiesta (3.4)	The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash (2.2)
How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2.8)	Dear Mr. Blueberry (2.9)
Cool Ali (2.9)*	The Emperor's Egg (4.1)
The Pine Park Mystery (3.0)*	Good-bye, Curtis (2.4)
Max Found Two Sticks (2.8)	Anthony Reynoso: Born to Rope (3.1)*
Chinatown (2.9)	Abuela (2.5)
Beginner's World Atlas	Dinosaurs Travel (3.2)*
Montigue on the High Seas (3.2)*	Ruth Law Thrills a Nation (4.0)
*only the purple links are online pages; the rest will go online as time permits* :)	if the link carries you to a page that isn't specifically for that story, ideas for the story will be close to the top so you don't have to search too much

Story Elements: Go to the Mixed - Up Chameleon page to download printable story element cards to use in the pocketchart. Printable story element activity pages below

activity 1

activity 2

activity 3

(this activity goes through the story Helping Out)

Story Elements Test

Genre Posters & Sort: This is a work in progress. Peggy is helping me get this project together and she only has her first teacher's edition at home. (I have none) So I'll have to add more posters and book cards as I get that information. Hopefully that will be soon. I want to have the whole set printed and laminated by the time school starts.

Anyway, print the genre posters and book cards on cardstock. Laminate. Cut out the book cards. As you read the stories, tape the book cards to the correct poster (or use magnets). As an extension to this activity, you can remove all the book cards and mix them up and have the students sort them back into the correct genres. OR, you could make two copies, which is what I would do ... one for each activity.

7.22.08 - I sat down with the 2nd grade teacher that I team with yesterday to discuss the worth of this activity. She liked it and suggested that she would like to take it even a step farther by dividing the posters into FICTION and NONFICTION. You can create your own F and NF headers and then group the appropriate posters underneath them.

Set 1

(added a better picture of Wilson Sat Alone and updated the definition of Realistic Fiction)

Set 2

Set 3

Henry and Mudge: This idea was shared by Nikki. She found some craft fall leaves and made "ed" words and glued them on the leaves. The students will work in pairs and come up with a sentence using an "ed" word that's on their leaf. They will write their sentences on sentence strips.

Vocabulary Matching Cards

Adapted Workbook pages

pg 18

pg 20

Use this game to work with small groups for sight word practice. Give each student an apple tree cutout and 10 mini apple erasers for their tree. Flash a sight word to each student in turn and if they can not read the word in 5 seconds they must pick an apple from their tree and put it in the "basket". To increase interest in the game and make it coordinate more with the story, create cards with a boy (Henry) eating an apple that says, "Mmm .." Sprinkle these randomly throughout the stack of words (about 3 or 4). When a student is flashed "the Henry card", the group says in unison "Mmmm ..." and the person who's turn it is must put an apple in the basket. Also, when the student misses a word or takes too long, the teacher indicates they have to put an apple in the basket by saying, "Mmmmm ..." The person with the most apples left on their tree at the end wins the game! I used this game this week with my students (and the new additions to it evolved) and the kids LOVED it. It was the first thing they wanted to do every day!

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printable Henry cards

*The cards you print, then hold up to a light and center a 3x5 index card over them. Then trace around the index card with a pencil. Cut out the Henry card and it will fit perfectly into your stack of index cards.

Scavenger Hunt created by Alice Thomas

Scavenger Hunt

Henry and Mudge

http://www.marcias-lesson-links.com/HenryandMudge.html

Wilson Sat Alone:

Vocabulary Matching Cards

Adapted Workbook pages

pg 36

pg 38

pg 39

Scavenger Hunt created by Alice Thomas

Scavenger Hunt

The Enormous Turnip:

Sara Tomon from Wahneta Elem. in Winterhaven, FL created these vocabulary cards. Thanks so much for sharing, Sara!

Vocabulary Matching Cards

Help! game -I made these turnip cards to use with my sight word cards to create a new game. Print the turnip cards on cardstock, then center a 3x5 index card over them. Trace around the index card with a pencil. Cut out the turnip cards and they will fit perfectly into your stack of index cards.

We're going to play our sight words game like this ... I flash a sight word card to each student. If they can read the word within 5 seconds, they get that card. If they can't, I move to the next person. If a turnip card comes up in the stack, the person who's turn it is says "Help me (student's name)!" and the person who is asked to help must help them by giving them their stack of cards. (They will need to learn the strategy of choosing a person to help them that has the most cards as opposed to their best friend, etc.) The person with the most cards at the end of the game wins!

turnip cards

Alice Thomas created this Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger Hunt

The Great Big Enormous Turnip

http://kizclub.com/storypatterns/turnip(C).pdf

http://kizclub.com/storypatterns/turnip.pdf

The Gigantic Pumpkin: I created this reader to coordinate with The Enormous Turnip.

http://www.teachersbookbag.com/miscbookcompanions.html

Helping Out:

Sue Williams, Village Meadows, Phoenix, AZ created and shared these vocabulary cards. She did a great job and it saved me some time. Thanks, Sue! :)

Vocabulary Matching Cards

Sara Tomon from Wahneta Elem. in Winterhaven, FL also created these vocabulary cards.

Vocabulary Matching Cards

Scavenger Hunt created by Alice Thomas

Scavenger Hunt

Mr. Putter and Tabby Fly the Plane:

Sara Tomon from Wahneta Elem. in Winterhaven, FL also created these vocabulary cards.

Vocabulary Matching Cards

Scavenger Hunt by Alice Thomas

Scavenger Hunt

Hedgehog Bakes a Cake:

Below are printables for a recipe for individual cakes made in a Dixie cup. They are then baked in an electric skillet (with the top on). Make sure that you get the cups with the small lip on the bottom that keeps the bottom of the cup from sitting directly on the skillet. There are also comprehension and sequencing sheets and a brief to note to parents concerning supplies included with the file.

Cup Cake Recipe

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Sara Tomon from Wahneta Elem. in Winterhaven, FL also created these vocabulary cards.

Vocabulary Matching Cards

Scavenger Hunt by Alice Thomas

Scavenger Hunt

Word Search shared by Salema Jenkins, Philadelphia, PA Thanks for sharing, Salema! :)

Word Search

Lemonade for Sale: Below are printables for a recipe for individual lemonade and an activity for matching the vocabulary words from the story to the correct definition.

Recipe

**page 1 of the vocab cards, "announced" is spelled incorrectly ...

I just have not had a chance to correct it**

Vocabulary Matching Cards

pg 1

pg 2

Alice Thomas created this Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger Hunt

Another idea is to have a real lemonade sale! You could set up on the playground and sell during recess and have the kids graph their profits. They will love it! If there's more than one class, you can have a competition to see which class sells the most. The class will need to decide beforehand what they'll do with the money ... a class party, a class trip, something for the classroom, or donate it to a good cause.

Reading Rainbow

http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow/parents_and_teachers/activity_138.html

From Seed to Plant:

Sara Tomon from Wahneta Elem. in Winterhaven, FL also created these vocabulary cards.

Vocabulary Matching Cards

Scavenger Hunt - This scavenger hunt was created and shared by Alice Thomas. I use them as sponge activities for when we're getting ready to start our reading lesson.

Scavenger Hunt

The Secret Life of Trees:

Vocabulary Word Cards - These are very simple. I did them very quickly.

Vocabulary Matching Cards

Scavenger Hunt - This scavenger hunt was created and shared by Alice Thomas. I use them as sponge activities for when we're getting ready to start our reading lesson.

The Secret Life of Trees Scavenger Hunt

Parts of a Tree (printable)

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/pdfs/2006S/060303_bp5.pdf

They Need Trees (printable .. incorporates Spanish)

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/pdfs/2006S/060303_bp6.pdf

Tree printable

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/pdfs/2006S/060303_bp9.pdf

A Tree In Each Season (printable)

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/pdfs/2007F/070928_bp_3.pdf

Identify Tree by Scientific Name

http://www.oplin.org/tree/name/commonname.html

Trees

http://www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/trees.htmlx

Exploring the Secret Life of Trees

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees2/

The Lorax's Save the Trees Game

http://www.seussville.com/games/lorax/

Once There Was a Tree

http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow/parents_and_teachers/activity_104.html

The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash: Printables for ou/ow skill.

ou/ow printables

Workbook page 4 adapted (vocabulary words)

vocabulary words printable

ABC Order printable

Sara Tomon created these vocabulary cards to share

Vocabulary Cards

Scavenger Hunt - This scavenger hunt was created and shared by Alice Thomas. I use them as sponge activities for when we're getting ready to start our reading lesson.

Scavenger Hunt for The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash

The video for this story is on the Click, Clack, Moo video.

Reading Rainbow including Haystack Snack: http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow/parents_and_teachers/activity_014.html

Printables online for The Mailbox 1st Jun/July 2007 - tshirt pattern and blackline and colored chain reaction picture cards. I can't put my hands on the magazine at the moment (mine is probably at school) to match the printables with what's in the magazine, but there's only 4 chain reaction cards and they're numbered. (not the whole sequence from the book)