Grade 2 Read-Aloud

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

Exercise Materials Details

Vocabulary Instructional

Activity: Tow

Westward Expansion Timeline Image Card 7,

Westward Expansion Timeline;

Timeline Image Sheet

Have students add the Erie Canal to their

individual Timelines.

Transportation Brainstorm Transpor tation Brainstorm;

Transportation Image Sheet

Revisit the poster, and add flatboat if it is

not already there.

Song: “The Erie Canal” Instructional Master 3B-1;

Recording, “The Erie Canal”

You may choose to have students work in

pairs to identify rhyming word pairs from

the song.

chart paper, whiteboard or

chalkboard; writing tools

Create a Venn Diagram to compare and

contrast the song and the read-aloud.

Westward Expansion Quilt Instructional Master 3B-2, drawing

tools

Write the main topic, important details,

and an example sentence on the board.

Advance Preparation

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

to it as Response Card 2 for this domain; it shows an image of a

steamboat and an image of a fl atboat. Students may refer to the

images on the response card as you review the content of Lesson

2 and introduce and discuss the content of Lesson 3.

Create a T-Chart listing the advantages and disadvantages of

steamboat travel. [Save this T-Chart for Lesson 7.]

+ Advantages - Disadvantages

Steamboat

faster than other boats couldn’t go everywhere

cheaper than other boats needed rivers to travel on

could carry more goods than

other boats

Mark off the Erie Canal with blue sticker dots, using Instructional

Master 2A-2 as a guide. Help students locate the Erie Canal on

their map’s legend and color it in blue. Then have students color

the Erie Canal blue on their map.

Bring in images of a mule, a donkey, and a horse; choose a

recording of the song “The Erie Canal.” [Refer to the Recommended

Resources list at the front of this guide for suggestions.]