How this resource helps
Ask, Answer, and Check teaches North Carolina Grade 2 RI.2.1 using the complete published biography A Tiny Seed: The Story of Wangari Maathai. The 87-page printable PDF includes five daily targets, a selected seven-phase 80-minute initial cycle, 30 four-option questions, 30 open/performance tasks, original teacher models, question organizers, full keys and an observation rubric. Learners ask and answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions about important details in text read or heard, checking that answers fit their questions. This same complete biography is shared with earlier Saint Pierre resources, including RI.1.1. This is distinct Grade 2 question-generation and answer-fit instruction, not a different book per purchase, a higher fixed question count, a certified independent reading level or an unseen-transfer test. Before the selected 80-minute core, read all 12 scenes in a prior supported session, approximately 15–25 minutes including vocabulary and context, adjusted for learners. Continue observations and selected practice across days. The bank is not 60 tasks in one sitting; all six question forms need not appear in one response or one exit. Actual learner-generated questions AND accurate answers are assessed separately. MC recognition, copying a modeled pair or an adult supplying the content does not show learner generation. Read-aloud, oral response, AAC, scribing and other suitable access are allowed; independent decoding, formal quotations/citations, peer work and forced revision are not extra mastery gates. Check-and-retain is valid. Observe each learner; unavailable evidence differs from an observed incomplete attempt. The biography’s broad historical statements must not be generalized to every Kenyan or African person today. Today belongs to the edition, not a current tree tally; millions is not an exact count or a claim Wangari personally planted every tree. River recovery is a simplified account, not a universal immediate planting effect. The award claim is first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize; its year is not supplied. No cutting tools, river visits, reenactment, personal poverty/family/bereavement disclosures or planting activity is required. The included English biography is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), permitting commercial sharing and adaptation with attribution, source/license links and change notices. Exact English HTML credits Nicola Rijsdijk, Maya Marshak and Karen Lilje; writer/illustrator roles are corroborated for Nicola/Maya, while Karen’s role is not inferred or replaced by the current catalog’s designer. Book Dash, August 2014, ISBN 978-0-9946519-2-1. Source: https://bookdash.github.io/bookdash-books/a-tiny-seed/en/ ; publisher: https://bookdash.org/books/a-tiny-seed/ . All 412 words/21 paragraphs/12 scenes remain; layout and scene locators are added. Story illustrations and alt text are omitted; attribution-only Book Dash logo remains. CC rights continue for the included biography: restrictions on separate original Saint Pierre instruction do not restrict licensed text, and no additional restrictions or DRM may limit CC reuse. No author, publisher or DPI endorsement is implied. Aligned to NC 2017 RI.2.1 in use during 2026–27, not the replacement beginning 2027–28.
What’s Included
- 87-page printable PDF
- Complete 412-word published biography in four source displays
- 30 four-option questions and 30 open/performance tasks
- Five daily targets and seven selected teaching phases
- Original teacher models and reusable question organizers
- Complete keys, observation rubric, extension and source notices
- 87 ordered SAMPLE pages in store preview; not an additional buyer download
Resource details
- Grade / course
- Grade 2
- Subject and resource type
- English Language Arts — Informational Reading · Complete Teaching Packet
- Files
- 87 main PDF pages · PDF
- Estimated completion time
- Before the selected 80-minute core, read all 12 scenes in a prior supported session, approximately 15–25 minutes including vocabulary and context, adjusted for learners. Continue observations and selected practice across days. The bank is not 60 tasks in one sitting; all six question forms need not appear in one response or one exit.
- Answer key
- Full keys with source-faithful examples and question/answer-fit criteria. Observe actual child asking and answering; modeled responses and MC scores alone are not generation evidence. Accept equivalent accurate wording and suitable access.
Standard or objective
RI.2.1