2nd Grade
Unit 4 Module B: Building Ideas
Early February - Late February: 3rd Trimester
2nd Grade
Unit 4 Module B: Building Ideas
Early February - Late February: 3rd Trimester
Module Overview
Readers understand that identifying main topics in a text aids their comprehension.
Writers understand that informational writing is strengthened by facts, definitions, and a solid conclusion.
Learners understand that change can happen quickly and create challenges.
How do readers identify multiple main topics within a text?
How do writers develop a strong conclusion in their informational writing?
Readers will identify multiple main topics in an informational text.
Writers will compose an informative/explanatory text with facts, definitions, and a strong conclusion.
Learners will explain various changes that can occur on Earth’s surface.
Informative/Explanatory Task: Write a Magazine Article
Children will use information they have learned from the selections to write an informative magazine article explaining a natural event.
Standards Addressed
The highlighted evidence outcomes are the priority for all students, serving as the essential concepts and skills. It is recommended that the remaining evidence outcomes listed be addressed as time allows, representing the full breadth of the curriculum.
Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 3
Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. (CCSS: SL.2.2) *
Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences. (CCSS: SL.2.4)
Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. (CCSS: SL.2.5)
Use content-specific vocabulary to ask questions and provide information. *
Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 3
Prioritized Evidence Outcomes:
Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. (CCSS: RI.2.2)
Supporting Evidence Outcomes:
Demonstrate use of self-monitoring comprehension strategies: rereading, checking context clues, predicting, questioning, clarifying, activating schema/background knowledge to construct meaning and draw inferences.
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. (CCSS: RI.2.1) *
Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. (CCSS: RI.2.3)
Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area. (CCSS: RI.2.4)
Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe. (CCSS: RI.2.6) *
Explain how specific images (for example: a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text. (CCSS: RI.2.7)*
Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text. (CCSS: RI.2.8)
Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic .(CCSS: RI.2.9)*
Adjust reading rate according to type of text and purpose for reading.
By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. (CCSS: RI.2.10) *
Foundational Skills:
Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one- syllable words. (CCSS: RF.2.3a) *
Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams. (CCSS: RF.2.3b) *
Read multisyllabic words accurately and fluently.
Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels. (CCSS: RF.2.3c) *
Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes. (CCSS: RF.2.3d) *
Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences. (CCSS: RF.2.3e) *
Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. (adapted from CCSS: RF.2.3f)
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. (CCSS: RF.2.4a)
Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression. (CCSS: RF.2.4b)
Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. (CCSS: RF.2.4c) *
Read grade-level text accurately and fluently, attending to phrasing, intonation, and punctuation. *
Compare formal and informal uses of English. (CCSS: L.2.3a)
Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. (CCSS: L.2.4a)
Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix is added to a known word (for example: happy/unhappy, tell/retell). (CCSS: L.2.4b) *
Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (for example: addition, additional). (CCSS: L.2.4c) *
Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words (for example: birdhouse, lighthouse,housefly; bookshelf, notebook, bookmark). (CCSS: L.2.4d) *
Create new words by combining base words with affixes to connect known words to new words. *
Use glossaries and beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases. (CCSS: L.2.4e)
Identify real-life connections between words and their use (for example: describe foods that are spicy or juicy). (CCSS: L.2.5a)
Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (for example: toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (for example: thin, slender, skinny, scrawny). (CCSS: L.2.5b)
Determine which strategies should be used to decode multisyllabic words.
Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 3
Prioritized Evidence Outcome:
Write informative/explanatory texts organized around main ideas which are supported by relevant details, facts, and definitions. (CCSS:CCSS:W.2.2)
Supporting Evidence Outcomes:
Introduce a topic (CCSS:W.2.2)
Use facts and definitions to develop points, including relevant details when writing to questions about texts. (adapted from CCSS: W.2.2)
Provide a concluding statement or section. (CCSS:W.2.2)
Organize informational texts using main ideas and specific supporting details.
Apply appropriate transition words to writing.
Writers use technology to support the writing process.
Grammar & Conventions:
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (for example: The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy).
Spell high-frequency words correctly.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.
Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (for example: cage → badge; boy → boil).
With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.
With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
Participate in shared research and writing projects. For example: read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations. (CCSS: W.2.7)
Use text features to locate and interpret information. For example: table of contents, illustrations, diagrams, headings and bold type.
Use a variety of multimedia sources to answer questions of interest.
Identify a specific question and gather information for purposeful investigation and inquiry.
Ask primary questions of depth and breadth.
Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. (CCSS: W.2.8)
Assessments
Assessments listed below reflect a balance of both formative and summative options, providing teachers and students with information relative to mastery of module and unit goals in reading and writing.
Student Prompt:
Use information you have learned from the selections to write an informative magazine article explaining a natural event.
Remember to:
introduce your topic.
use facts and definitions to develop information.
provide a conclusion.
*Administered AFTER Module 4B
2nd Grade Unit 4 End of Unit Assessment (Student Copy)
2nd Grade Unit 4 End of Unit Assessment Scoring Guide
Texts
Texts listed below reflect the full series of reading materials designed to build background knowledge within the Unit theme.
Anchor Text:
Disaster Alert!
(trade book)
570L
Informational Text
Supporting Text:
Danger! Earthquakes
(Text Collection V2)
Lexile AD480L
Sleuth:
“Josh Gibson, Home Run King” (710L)
Aligned Texts for Small Group & Additional Reading
Planet Earth
(Available for check out through District Media Services)
Foundational Skills