A lemonade stand story fills page 1 of this 4-page 2nd grade reading sheet. Maya and Leo meet lemons and ice (solids), water and lemonade (liquids) and the air in their balloons (gas), and then the ice melts in the sun. Pages 2 and 3 hold four multiple choice questions, a table for two solids and two liquids, a line on what filled the balloons and three boxes to draw one solid, one liquid and one gas. Page 4 is the answer key.
RI.2.1
“Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.”
Questions 1 to 4 and 6 send students back to the story for the lemon, the shape of the lemonade, the air in the balloons and the melting ice.
“Tell solids, liquids and gases apart by how they behave.”
Question 5 and the drawing boxes in question 7 ask students to sort what they met at the stand into solids, liquids and a gas.
A five-paragraph story with a picture of the stand. The words solids, liquids, gas and melt are in bold, each with a plain definition next to a real example.
Four questions with four choices each. Students pick the solid, say why lemonade takes the shape of the cups, pick the gas and say what happened to the ice cubes.
Students list two solids and two liquids from the story in a two-column table, write what filled the balloons, then draw and label one solid, one liquid and one gas.
Letter answers for questions 1 to 4, accepted examples for the table and the drawings, and a reminder that a balloon drawing should label the air inside.
Read it twice
Read the story aloud once. On the second read, students underline every clue about shape: keeps its own shape, takes the shape of its container, spreads out. Those underlines answer most of page 2.
Ice on the desk
Put an ice cube in a cup at the start of the lesson. By the time students reach the last paragraph and question 4, they have watched it melt and can say it in their own words.
Swap drawings
After question 7, students trade papers and name the state in each box. A drawing of the air inside a balloon is the one to talk about, because students tend to draw the balloon itself.
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