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Houghton Mifflin Reading Second Grade Resources
Teacher Read Aloud: Lemonade Stand
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Reading Selection: Mrs. Brown Went to Town
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Web Resources 
Farm Animals Around the World: Site for young children about farm animals from Enchanted Learning; click on links for specific animals to learn more about them.
All About Farm Animals: A site from Kiddyhouse.com with activities and resources for students and teachers.
Farm Animals Unit: From ABCTeach, a collection of resources to support a unit on farm animals.
Down on the Farm: Songs, poems, and activities about farms from Kinderkorner.
On the Farm: Songs and poems from CanTeach.com.
Wong Herbert Yee: Information about the author of "Mrs. Brown Went to Town" from Eduplace.
eWord Game: An interactive word game to reinforce the Key Vocabulary for "Mrs. Brown Went to Town."
Houghton Mifflin Reading Audio and Video Resources 
Discovery Education Streaming:
Search for Let’s Explore: Around the Farm (clip on What Does a Farmer Do?)
Search for Animal Alphabet (clip on Y)
Search for Animal ABC's (clip on Y)
Search for Riddles (clip on Radical Riddles)
Search for Farms and Animals (clip on Elementary Spanish: Grades 01-02, Unit 9, several segments on Farm Animal Names and Sounds in Spanish )
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Reading 
Preparing to Read/Key Vocabulary Graphic Organizer Inspiration V8 / Inspiration V7 / PDF
Genre Lesson, Fantasy, page 91 Inspiration V8 / Inspiration V7 / PDF
Comprehension Skill Lesson, Fantasy and Realism, page 97 Inspiration V8 / Inspiration V7 / PDF
Comprehension Skill Lesson, Cause and Effect, page 101 Inspiration V8 / Inspiration V7 / PDF
Information & Study Skills: Locating Information, page 111E-F:
Using Internet to locate information to answer questions about farms and farm animals; teachers can show one specific site such as the Enchanted Learning site or how to search Yahooligans or netTrekker for information about farms and farm animals
Farm Animals Around the World: Site for young children about farm animals from Enchanted Learning; click on links for specific animals to learn more about them.
Yahooligans: A free children’s search tool.
Classroom Management Handbook, page CM 1-12, #8: Farm Life
Farm Animals Around the World: Site for young children about farm animals from Enchanted Learning; click on links for specific animals to learn more about them.
Challenge Handbook, page CH 1-5, #1: Silly Animal Rhymes
Students can publish silly animal rhymes using illustrated word processing software (StoryBook Weaver Deluxe, SunBuddy Writer, etc.).
Challenge Handbook, page CH 1-6, #3: What Comes Next?
Students can use graphic design programs, such as KidPix, to create patterns using stamps or icons so that others in class can make predictions about what comes next.
Word Work 
Expanding Your Vocabulary, Words for Things on a Farm, page 111J Inspiration V8 / Inspiration V7 / PDF
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