Second Grade

Second Grade Scope & Sequence

The Second Grade Scope & Sequence shows what teachers plan to teach each quarter of the school year. The scope and sequence lists the academic expectations for each academic subject. Click on the document to expand and see all of the subjects. In addition, access more information below to learn about specific skills you can expect second graders to learn during the school year.

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English Language Arts

In grade two, students will continue to build important reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. They will think, talk, and write about what they read in a variety of texts, such as stories, books, articles, and other sources of information including the Internet. In their writing, students will learn how to develop a topic and strengthen their skills by editing and revising.

Activities in Second Grade ELA

Activities in these areas will include:

• Reading stories, including fables and folktales from different cultures, and identifying the lesson or moral of the story

• Reading texts about history, social studies, or science and identifying the main idea

• Answering who, what, where, when, why, and how questions about stories and books

• Describing the reasons that an author gives to support a point

• Learning and using new words

• Learning the rules of spoken and written English

• Participating in class discussions by listening and building on what others are saying

• Describing in their own words information learned from articles or books read aloud

• Working together to gather facts and information on a topic • Writing about a short series of events and describing actions, thoughts, and feelings

• Writing about opinions on books using important details and examples to support a position

Excerpt provided by the Council of the Great City Schools at https://www.cgcs.org/Page/244

Curricular Materials in English Language Arts

Words Their Way™ is a curricular approach to phonics, vocabulary, and spelling instruction for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The program is implemented as a supplemental curriculum in the district and aims to provide a practical way to study words with students. The purpose of word study (which involves examining, manipulating, comparing, and categorizing words) is to reveal logic and consistencies within written language and to help students achieve mastery in recognizing, spelling, and defining specific words.

Wonders, a comprehensive literacy curriculum, is designed to meet the challenges of today’s classroom and reach all learners. A wealth of research-based print and digital resources provide unmatched support for building strong literacy foundations, accessing complex fiction and nonfiction texts, writing to sources, and building social emotional learning skills. Whether in the core classroom, an English language learner, or benefiting from intervention support, Wonders provides students equity of access to rich texts and rigorous instruction.

Math

In grade two, students will extend their understanding of place value to the hundreds place. They will use this place value understanding to solve word problems, including those involving length and other units of measure. Students will continue to work on their addition and subtraction skills, quickly and accurately adding and subtracting numbers up through 20 and also working with numbers up through 100. They will also build a foundation for understanding fractions by working with shapes and geometry.

Activities in Second Grade Math

Activities in these areas will include:

• Quickly and accurately adding numbers together that total up to 20 or less or subtracting from numbers up through 20

• Solving one- or two-step word problems by adding or subtracting numbers up through 100

• Understanding what the different digits mean in a three-digit number

• Adding and subtracting three digit numbers

• Measuring lengths of objects in standard units such as inches and centimeters

• Solving addition and subtraction word problems involving length

• Solving problems involving money

• Breaking up a rectangle into same-size squares

• Dividing circles and rectangles into halves, thirds, or fourths

• Solving addition, subtraction, and comparison word problems using information presented in a bar graph

• Writing equations to represent addition of equal numbers

Excerpt provided by the Council of the Great City Schools at https://www.cgcs.org/Page/244

Curricular Materials in Math

Students will experience activities that ensure a progression of knowledge in McGraw-Hill My Math curriculum materials throughout Kindergarten to fifth grade. This framework is a foundation for rigorous standards, resulting in a program that provides the conceptual understanding, key areas of focus, and connection to prior concepts and skills for each grade.

Science

In second grade, students will learn to analyze and observe objects and their characteristics, and how to use these observations to make case-by-case decisions. They will be able to choose which object would work best to complete a certain task based on qualities like hardness, flexibility, and texture. They’ll also dive into the concept of change in many forms, like understanding some heating and cooling changes can be reversed, and some cannot. Your child will begin to fully grasp the basic make-up of earth and how different objects/properties can cause things to happen. They will start to combine these skills together to make predictions about things. An example of this would be to predict that rock erosion would take more time, whereas a volcano can erupt very quickly.

Social Science: Families, Neighborhoods, & Communities

In second grade, students will continue developing social skills and knowledge about how society works for different people.

Activities in Second Grade in Social Science

Students will learn:

what governments are and some of their functions
to describe how communities or groups work to accomplish common tasks
to read and create maps for navigation of both familiar and unfamiliar places
to identify specific cultural and environmental characteristics of their own community
to demonstrate how choices affect themselves and others in positive and negative ways
to explain the role of money in making an exchange easier
to explain how money can be saved or spent on goods and services
to compare goods and services that people in the local community produce and those that are produced in other communities
to summarize changes that have occurred in the local community
to compare people and groups who have shaped significant history
to explain how historical sources can be used to study the past

Physical Education & Health

The goal of physical education is to develop physically literate individuals who have the knowledge, skills and confidence to enjoy a lifetime of healthful physical activity.

Activities in Second Grade in PE & Health

To pursue a lifetime of healthful physical activity, a physically literate individual:

• Has learned the skills necessary to participate in a variety of physical activities.

• Knows the implications and the benefits of involvement in various types of physical activities.

• Participates regularly in physical activity.

• Is physically fit.

• Values physical activity and its contributions to a healthful lifestyle

Adapted from Moving into the future: National standards for physical education (2nd ed.), National Association for Sport and Physical Education, 2004. Reston, VA: Author.

Physical Development and Health standards are embedded into the following K-2nd grade band of expectations:

Acquire movement and motor skills and understand concepts necessary to engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity.
Achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness based upon continual self-assessment.
Develop skills necessary to become a successful member of a team by working with others during physical activity.
Demonstrate Personal Responsibility During Group Physical Activities.
Understand principles of health promotion and the prevention and treatment of illness and injury.
Understand human body systems and factors that influence growth and development.
Promote and enhance health and well-being through the use of effective communication and decision-making skills.

Portions of this page were adapted from an excerpt provided by the Council of the Great City Schools at https://www.cgcs.org/Page/244

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