Grade 2 Read-Aloud

56 Cycles in Nature Supplemental Guide 3 | Four Seasons in One Year

Exercise Materials Details

Sequencing the Cycle of the

Seasons

Instructional Master 3B-1, drawing

tools

“Bee! I’m expecting you!” by

Emily Dickinson

Advance Preparation

Make a copy of Instructional Master 3B-1 for each student.

Students will create their own Response Card for the cycle of the

seasons.

Bring in images or fi nd short video clips of tropical, polar, and

temperate regions for students to see and to talk about the

differences among these regions.

For Syntactic Awareness Activity, write the two parts of the

compound words on separate index cards. Give each student

one part of a compound word, and tape the other part of the

compound word on the board. Students will try to match their

word with a word on the board to create a compound word. (See

reference chart in the Syntactic Awareness Activity for seasonal

compound word suggestions. Be sure that there is a match on the

board for each part of a compound word given to students.)

Create a horizontal word wall for the vocabulary word intense.

Write the following words on index cards: (in red) intense, strong,

fi erce, powerful, great; (in green) weak, gentle, low, calm.