2nd Grade Drawing Conclusions

2nd Grade Drawing Conclusions

Today I had the opportunity to visit Mrs. Schneider's 2nd grade classroom to do a lesson on Drawing Conclusions and incorporating Google Classroom. We started the lesson using an anchor chart and we talked about when we need to draw a conclusion and how we draw conclusions (sometimes without even knowing we are doing it)! 

After we built our anchor chart together, we read short stories on Google Classroom and typed down our thoughts while we read each sentence. We talked about how our conclusion changes with the more information that we gather! I modeled one, we did one together, and finally the students tried the last one on their own. 

To end the lesson I read aloud Picture Day Perfection by Deborah Diesen. Before even reading the text, I had a student draw a conclusion from the title and picture. Her thought already was his picture was going to be far from perfect. As I read the story aloud, we would stop and pull clues from the story that would lead us to think his picture was going to need retaken another day. Using 5 clues, we drew our final conclusion! I won't ruin the end of the story for those of you who haven't read it! 

Here is a Link to the Drawing Conclusions Template: Drawing Conclusions

 If you make a copy, you can change for any book or text you like!