Grade 2 Curriculum Info

This unit provides the opportunity to create a community of engaged readers and gives time to establishing the routines that are the essential elements of a successful Readers’ Workshop model. In this unit, readers develop the skills to select appropriately leveled or “just right” books, learn how to use post-it notes to record their thinking, set up their Reader’s Response Journal and ways to talk about their reading with others.

We are working on asking and answering questions to develop our understanding of the books we are reading. We're using terms like characters, setting, problem, and retelling stories in chronological order to help others know about the books we're reading.

Standards Addressed in this Unit

RL2.1 Ask and answer such question as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

RL2.10 Independently and proficiently read and comprehend literary texts representing a variety of genres, cultures, and perspectives and exhibiting complexity appropriate for at least grade 2.

RF2.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

RF2.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

a. Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

b. Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

SL2.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

a. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).

b. Build on others’ talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others.

c. Ask for clarification and further explanation as needed about the topics and texts under discussion.

Writing

Unit 1 Establishing Strong Writing Behaviors

In this unit, writers will be both developing their grammar and convention skills of parts of a sentence, punctuation, and parts of speech. We will be using terms like noun, verb, and adjective as well as talking about who the sentence is about and what is happening.

Types of sentence names: declarative (.), interrogative/question (?), exclamatory (!)

For our writing process, we are working on brainstorming ideas for writing topics, and paying attention to those stories that are about things within our heart. We will be developing our stamina for writing by writing nearly each day and working to add greater details, even if we think we are done. We will add illustrations to stories to help bring them to life. As we write, we are using our spelling tools like tapping words to spell them (learning this in Fundations). Our reading work on transition words like first, then, next, and finally will also help us in our writing.

Standards addressed in this learning:

W 2.3 Write narratives in prose or poem form that recount a well-elaborated event or experience, or a set of events or experiences; include details and dialogue to show actions, thoughts, and feelings; use temporal words to signal order where appropriate; and provide a sense of closure.

W 2.4 Produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

W 2.10 Write routinely for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.

L 2.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking; retain and further develop language skills learned in previous grades. Sentence Structure and Meaning

a. Produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences and choose among sentence types depending on the meaning to be conveyed.

b. Use adjectives and adverbs in sentences and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.

L 2.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

a. Print upper- and lowercase letters legibly and fluently.

b. Capitalize holidays, product names, and geographic names.

c. Use commas in greetings and closings of letters.

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