Our second grade team is starting with different types of graphs. What resources or read alouds would you recommend for them?


A couple of great literacy supports I would suggest include- books and read alouds:
"Lemonade for Sale" by Stuart J. Murphy
"The Great Graph Contest" by Loreen Leedy
"Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger" by Ann Whitehead Nagda and Cindy Bickel
Tally O'Malley" by Stuart J. Murphy
"Graphs" by Bonnie Bader
"Pictograph Fun" by Thomas K. Adamson
"Making Graphs" by Molly Blaisdell
"Data Day: Graphs" by Sue Glass
"Graph It!" by Lisa Trumbauer
Several of these are from the MathStart leveled texts - many districts utilize these texts.
https://www.mathstart.net/level-1-books.html

I used this data collection resource for many years. They were reproducible mini books that each student would have to record data as we moved about the school with our books, clipboards and pencils and often measuring tools. We collected data and graphed the school’s lost and found to measuring and collecting data about trunks of trees. I tried to tie it into a reading, science or social studies unit to make it more relevant and fun.