Dare to Fly

This Web Quest is used as a reading guide activity for 2^nd grade students. In this Web Quest students will read Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman, and engage in learning and critical thinking activities to build on 2^nd grade reading standards. In this Web quest students are talented and motivated journalist who writes for the Future Star�s in the Making Magazine. Students have been sent on an assignment to watch a play of a brave and outstanding young lady named Grace. Grace wants to play the role of Peter Pan but two barriers come in the way, firstly, she is a girl and secondly she is black. But nothing can stop her from doing what she wants and she becomes the Peter Pan. This story can be an inspiring story for the ones who have enough enthusiasm to do something they like and yet not feeling confident with themselves. 
 

Standards

Tennessee Curriculum Standards for 2nd grade/Reading
1.09 Use active comprehension strategies to derive meaning while reading and
check for understanding after reading.
2.1.07 Develop and extend reading vocabulary.
[2.1.08 Develop and use pre-reading strategies.]
f. Connect life experience to information and events in texts.
2.1.09
2. participating in discussion about text and relating selection to personal
Experience
2.1.12 Read independently for a variety of purposes.
c. Read to perform a task.
e. Read to expand vocabulary.

Credits

Melanie R Thomas. (2011). Childhood early education and reading - what are the benefits? Retrieved from http://ezinearticles.com/?Childhood-Early-Education-and-Reading---What-Are-The-Benefits?&id=5331214

Education.com. (n.d.). Second grade reading activities.
Retrieved from http://www.education.com/activity/second-grade/reading/

American Liberty. (2012). 2nd grade reading activities: Hands-on ideas for active second graders. Retrieved from http://mathandreadinghelp.org/2nd_grade_reading_activities.html

Other

Beneficial Reading
This online article explains why Childhood Early Education and reading are extremely important aspect of any child's life. In this article the writer discusses the benefits of both childhood early education and reading.
Melanie R Thomas. (2011). Childhood early education and reading - what are the benefits? Retrieved from http://ezinearticles.com/?Childhood-Early-Education-and-Reading---What-Are-The-Benefits?&id=5331214