Grade 2 Read-Aloud

Westward Expansion: Supplemental Guide 3 | The Journal of a Twelve-Year-Old on the Erie Canal 63

Note: Introducing the Read-Aloud and Extensions may have activity

options that exceed the time allocated for that part of the lesson.

To remain within the time periods allocated for each portion of

the lesson, you will need to make conscious choices about which

activities to include based on the needs of your students.

Exercise Materials Details

Introducing the Read-Aloud (10 minutes)

What Have We Already
Learned?

Instructional Master 3A-1

(Response Card 2)

Have students refer to this Response

Card as you review the steamboat and

introduce the flatboat.

chart paper, whiteboard, or

chalkboard; writing tools

Create a T-chart of the advantages and

disadvantages of steamboat travel.

Essential Background
Information or Terms

Image Card 7 (Erie Canal), U.S.

map

You may wish to explain the word

innovative.

Westward Expansion Map;

blue crayons or colored pencils;

large U.S. map, blue sticker dots

Mark the Erie Canal using blue sticker

dots (or a blue marker) on a large U.S.

map. Have students locate and color the

Erie Canal blue on their individual maps.

Vocabular y Preview: Freight,
Mules

Image 3A-2

Image 3A-3; additional image of

mule, donkey, and horse

Purpose for Listening

Presenting the Read-Aloud (15 minutes)

The Journal of a Twelve-Year-
Old on the Erie Canal

U.S. map compound word: flatboat

Discussing the Read-Aloud (15 minutes)

Comprehension Questions U.S. map

Word Work: Transport

 Complete Remainder of the Lesson Later in the Day
Extensions (20 minutes)

Multiple Meaning Word
Activity: Board

Poster 2M (Board)

Syntactic Awareness Activity:
Prefix Tra n s –

U.S. map, world map Demonstrate the words transatlantic,

transnational and transcontinental.