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Peer reviewedRogers, Linda K. – Reading Teacher, 2003
Discusses the "Report in a Can" research process that focuses on the successful gathering of data, and outlines its four major steps. Argues for engaging primary students in well-planned research assignments. Describes how to create a "Report in a Can." (SG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 2, Instructional Innovation, Primary Education
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Describes two activities in a second-grade class that use drawing and writing to explore fractions. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Elementary School Mathematics, Fractions
Download full textJohnson, Phyllis; Marlow, Patti – 1996
A study described and evaluated a program for increasing student retention and transfer of weekly spelling words into daily writing. The targeted population consisted of second-grade students in two different middle-class communities. One community was growing, while the other was more established; both are located in suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Class Activities, Classroom Research, Grade 2
Hoberg, Rosemary; Plante, Donna – Insights into Open Education, 1992
This integrated curricular unit on frogs, developed for the second grade, focuses primarily on integrating reading, writing, and science. The unit discusses introducing students to frogs, predicting results in science, learning about classification in science, reading factual science books, extending the topic into literature and the arts,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Grade 2
Dyson, Anne Haas – 1994
A qualitative study, presented in the form of an analytical narrative, examined children's symbolic and social use of superhero stories--popular media stories that vividly reveal societal beliefs about power and gender, which are themselves interwoven in complex ways with race, class, and physical demeanor. A second-grade classroom in an East San…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Childrens Television, Class Activities, Discourse Analysis
