Curriculum

Reading

Unit Five : Informational Reading Clubs

RI.2.3 Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.

Specific events, ideas or steps within an informational text are connected to each other or a bigger idea.

What happens/happened before ____?

What happened first? After that?

Why is order important in this procedure?

Why are the events presented in this order?

How are these two concepts/ideas/events similar?

What are the differences between these ____?

What connection can you make between these events?

How would things change if ____ did or did not happen?

How are these events or ideas connected to each other?

How are these events, steps, or ideas connected to a bigger idea?

What is the author describing in this text?

What does the author think about ____? How do you know?

Why do you think the author wrote this text?

RI.2.6 Identify the author’s main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe

Authors write text to convey information he/she wants to explain or describe to the reader.

• What do you think you will learn by reading this text?
• What is the author describing in this text?
• What does the author think about ____? How do you know?
• Why do you think the author wrote this text?

RI.2.8 Identify the reasons an author gives to support ideas in a text.Authors share ideas and support them throughout informational text.

• What idea(s) does the author share in this text?
• When the author says ___, what are the reasons she says that?
• What is the reason the author thinks ____? What evidence from the text makes you think that?
• Can you find the reason why the author thinks that…?
• Can you find the reason why the author believes…?

SL.2.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

Writing:

Unit 5:

Writing-Informational writing in a content area:Science-Matter

• writing an informational book

Social Studies:

, “Economics and Financial Literacy,” focuses on 2.E.1, Understand basic economic concepts and it’s six clarifying objectives.

The unit is organized in three bends. Bend 2 (Monday) covers the following clarifying objectives:

• 2.E.1.3 Summarize the concept of supply and demand.
• 2.E.1.4 Explain why people and countries around the world trade for goods and services.

Math :

• NC.2.OA.1 Represent and solve addition and subtraction word problems, within 100, with unknowns in all positions, by using representations and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, when solving:
• One-step problems:

Add to/Take from - Start Unknown

Compare-Bigger Unknown (with “more” and with “less”)

Compare-Smaller Unknown (with “more” and with “less”)

Word Study:

This Week’s Principle:

• Add an apostrophe and ‘s’ to a singular noun to show possession: ‘ boy’s shirt’
• Understand that collective nouns are names for a group of people, animals or things: ‘flock, herd’