2nd Grade
Unit 6 Module B: Changing the World
May: 3rd Trimester
2nd Grade
Unit 6 Module B: Changing the World
May: 3rd Trimester
Module Overview
Readers understand an author’s purpose by identifying what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
Writers understand that opinions can be supported with facts, details, and a strong conclusion.
Learners understand how people’s lives can affect the world.
How do readers determine an author’s purpose?
How do writers support their opinions?
Readers will identify the author’s purpose using details from the text.
Writers will support an opinion with clearly stated facts, details, and a conclusion.
Learners will identify ways in which people’s lives have affected the world.
Opinion Task: Agree or Disagree
Using Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind the Peace Prize or A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt, children will identify an opinion the author includes about Nobel or Roosevelt. Children will then agree or disagree with the opinion using text-based evidence.
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 purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe. (CCSS: RI.2.6) *
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) *
Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. (CCSS: RI.2.2)
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)
Know and use various text features (for example: captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently. (CCSS: RI.2.5) *
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)*
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 pieces on a topic or book that state opinions and give supporting reasons. (CCSS:W.2.1)
Supporting Evidence Outcomes:
Introduce the topic or book they are writing about. (CCSS:W.2.1)
State an opinion. (CCSS:W.2.1)
Supply reasons that support the opinion. (CCSS:W.2.1)
Use linking words (for example: because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons. (CCSS:W.2.1)
Provide a concluding statement or section. (CCSS:W.2.1)
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.
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:
Using Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind the Peace Prize or A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt, identify an opinion the author includes about Alfred Nobel or Eleanor Roosevelt. State whether you agree or disagree with the opinion. Use text-based evidence to support your opinion.
Remember to:
introduce the selection and the part of the text you are writing about
state an opinion about that part of the text and answer the questions: Do you agree or disagree with the author? Why?
Supply three or more reasons that support your opinion
use linking words to connect the opinion and reasons
provide a conclusion.
*Administered AFTER Module 6B
Texts
Texts listed below reflect the full series of reading materials designed to build background knowledge within the Unit theme.
Anchor Text:
Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind the Peace Prize
Lexile 870L
Informational Text
Supporting Text:
A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt
(Text Collection V2)
Lexile AD680L Informational Text
Sleuth:
“Wanted: Great Student Leaders!”
Lexile 710L
Foundational Skills