Second Grade - Language Arts

 

Activities


Charge!

Financial and Economic Concepts: Loans and borrowing money, including interest, credit card debt, predatory lending, and payday loans

Second Grade – Language Arts

2.SL.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

2.SL.3: Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of topic or issue.

2.SL.6: Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.

Materials: Chart Paper or White board/chalk board, Credit Card Worksheet
Time: 30 minutes

Make a KWHL chart about credit cards, to establish what background knowledge they have.

Ask students to take home the worksheet entitled “Credit Cards.” (optional to take this home, or just complete it during the class discussion.)

Credit Cards Credit Cards (pdf)

Have a class discussion about the answers to the questions.  Be sure to explain that the person using the credit card will eventually have to pay for the items purchased and often with a service or finance charge added.

Using a VENN Diagram, compare the similarities and differences between buying with a credit card and purchasing with money saved.

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Country Bears Good Neighbor

Financial and Economic Concepts: Loans and borrowing money, including interest, credit card debt, predatory lending, and payday loans

Second Grade – Language Arts

2.RL.1: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

2.RL.3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

2.SL.3: Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.

Art Activity:
Time: 30 Minutes
Materials: paper, crayons, pictures of the items borrowed by Country Bear as listed in the story (see PPT, either display the PPT on a screen or print the slides to display on the board.) or bring the items in the story from home.

Have students fold their paper into 8ths and number each square.  Discuss the order in which Country Bear borrowed each item, placing the picture or item in order on the table or chalkboard at the front of the class.  Have students draw a picture of each item IN ORDER, in each square on their paper.

Students will learn the importance of being a responsible borrower and lender as they learn about Country Bear who continually borrowed items from his neighbor who became concerned until Country Bear surprised her with a cake he had baked using the borrowed items!  This fun activity will teach students about borrowing and lending to be able to complete an art project.

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Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

Financial and Economic Concepts: Goods & Services, Producers & Consumers

Second Grade – Language Arts

2.WS.1: Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.

As a class, participate in the readers theater, read the story Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, or watch it.  Review the discussion questions (pdf). Give students writing prompts to complete the sentences or begin a paragraph or story:

To assess their writing, look for the following (2 points each, possible of 10):


Introduced topic

/2

Provides three reasons that support the opinion

/2

Provides concluding statement

/2

States their opinion clearly

/2

Uses at least two linking words to connect opinion and reasons

/2

Follow up/extension activities:

Interactive Learning Activities

Study Guide with additional worksheet activities (pdf)

Readers Theater

Complete Lesson PlanComplete Unit (pdf)