Units of Study for Grade 2:
Second Grade Reading Growth Spurt. Skills focus: Building stamina as reader (continue to read for longer periods of time throughout the year). Increase aware of personal reading habits and continue to work on fluency.
Meeting characters and learning lessons: A Study in story elements. Skills focus: Retelling stories, understanding character traits, determining setting and understanding story structure.
Becoming Experts: A Study in Nonfiction. Skills focus: Identify the parts of nonfiction text, for example: heading, diagram, labels, etc. Discover an author's purpose for writing a text (to inform and explain).
Bigger Books Mean Amping up Reading Power. Skills focus: Take the next step in building reading stamina. Use phonics word attack strategies to decode and comprehend longer words/phrases/pieces of text.
Series Book Clubs: At the point in the year students can synthesize the skills that they have developed over the course of the year in order to have an effective small book club. Skills: Discuss elements of series books with peers, develop text based questions and inquiries.