Grade 2 Short Stories Comprehension – The Ugly Vegetables. Easy short stories with comprehension for Second graders. Free eBooks/Flipbooks and PDFs
The Ugly Vegetables – Short Stories Comprehension
Grade 2 Short Stories Comprehension – The Ugly Vegetables
Grade 2, Unit 5
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In the garden
Content Objectives
Children will:
- Learn about the concept of gardening.
- Access prior knowledge and build background about tools for gardening.
- Explore and apply the concept of what a garden needs to how to help a garden grow.
Language Objectives
Children will:
- Demonstrate an understanding of gardening.
- Orally use words that describe how to help a garden grow.
- Extend oral vocabulary by talking about why we grow gardens.
- Use key concept words [hoeing, weeding, picking, insects, sprout, fertilizer, herbs].
Explain
Explain that children are going to learn about:
- What a garden is.
- How to plant a garden.
- How to keep a garden healthy.
- What we can do with plants from a garden.
Model
- Ask children: What do you see in this picture? (a mother and a son, a garden, a watering can). How might they take care of their garden? (water the garden, weed the garden).
- Proceed to the next slide. Ask children: Why do plants need soil? (so they stay in place, for nutrients).
- Say: There are many different kinds of gardens. What are some reasons that people grow gardens? (to grow vegetables, to grow herbs, to grow beautiful flowers).
Apply
Have children play the games that follow. Have them discuss with their partner the different topics that appear during the Talk About It feature. After the first game, ask children to talk about how they would take care of a garden and help them learn more about the garden tools they’re interested in. After the second game, have them discuss what they would grow in a garden.
Close
- Ask children: Would you like to grow a garden? Explain.
- Summarize for children that a garden is an area where we can grow flowers, vegetables, or herbs. If we take care of a garden, the plants grow well. Encourage children to think about reasons that people have gardens
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The Ugly Vegetables
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