Egypt - Grade 2

The Adventure
Throughout the summer school adventure, classroom students follow missing Time Trackers through a time warp to ancient Egypt. They explore the upper and lower kingdoms of Egypt as they learn essential reading skills and strategies. A variety of theme-related fiction, nonfiction, and instructional materials help teachers target phonological awareness, the alphabetic principle, spelling, vocabulary development, reading comprehension, listening, speaking, and written communication. The journey into the world of the ancient Egyptians becomes a journey to grade-level literacy for students in Egypt.

All in an Egyptian Day
Traveling back in time, students explore cause-and-effect relationships, conducting experiments to determine how Egyptians might have used manual labor to build large structures. Second-graders create a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast ancient Egyptian and present-day schools. Students reinforce skills to decode and analyze words as they learn more about Egyptian culture.

Amid the Pyramids
Students delve further into Egyptian life, decorating animal masks for a reader's theater performance that allows them to respond to reading creatively. Through their discoveries in an archaeological dig, they learn to organize their thoughts and take simple notes. Models of pyramids, the most wondrous ruins of ancient Egypt, are constructed in the classroom—inspiring students to read and follow written directions.

Life Along the Nile
Chants, raps, and poems reinforce the rhythm of language as students explore the land of the Nile. They use context clues to glean important information about sports and daily life. A careful examination of facts from engaging text leads students to write to communicate as they create a class book about farming.

The Pharaoh and I
Students identify fact and opinion in texts describing Egyptian fashions and hairstyles. By designing travel postcards, students write to record events and ideas. Skills for connecting ideas and themes across texts are developed as students plan their own ancient Egyptian celebration to conclude their learning adventures.

Skills and Strategies:

	Fluency
	Phonological Awareness
	Alphabetic Principle
	Vocabulary development and concept awareness
	Comprehension and literary response
	Writing
	Listening and speaking

Benefits:

	Improves reading performance
	Aligns with state and national standards
	Develops reading comprehension strategies and essential
	word-attack skills
	Strengthens phonological awareness and letter-sound
	correspondences
	Includes relevant, high-interest content and concepts
	Provides ongoing student assessment
	Allows teachers to focus on the quality of instruction with
	explicit daily lesson plans
	Engages and motivates teachers and students

Each Classroom Receives:

	Comprehensive Curriculum Guide with daily lesson plans
	Content-related instructional materials
	Built-in assessment tools
	Suggestions for parent and community involvement
	Voyager Adventure Books

Parent Connection:

Parent Guides (English or Spanish)

Model:

	Single grade-level program for grade 2
	Up to 4 hours of learning adventures per day for 4 weeks,
	Total of 80 hours

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