Grade 2
Week of Monday, May 4, 2026
ELA:
Unit 4, Week 5 Savvas: MyView Literacy (We will be finishing up Week 5 and working on the skills for Week 6 but there is no main selection for week 6)
Title: Kids Can Be Big Helpers
Essential Question: How can you get involved to improve your community?
Genre: Persuasive Text
Target: I can learn about making a difference by reading a persuasive text.
Target: I can use elements of narrative nonfiction to write a personal narrative.
Spelling: spelling words with syllable patterns: VCCV
bandit, dentist, harvest, magnet, sister, contest, doctor, hornet, signal, velvet, problem, complete
High Frequency Words: problem, complete, horse
Academic Vocabulary: discuss, connect, responsible, equal, improve
Selection Vocabulary: participate, organizing, skill, volunteers, shelter
Comprehension: Understanding Persuasive Text:
A reason answers the question, why?
Looking for answers in the text to answer the question, why?
Using text features as a guide
Language Conventions:
Pronouns
Writing: Personal Narrative: Revise and Edit Pronouns
Math: Savvas Envision
Topic 10: Add Within 1,000 Using Models and Strategies
Essential Question: What are strategies for adding numbers to 1,000?
Review of Topic 10 - Lessons 10-1 through 10-7
Assessment: Thursday, May 7th
Vocabulary: hundred, thousand, digit place value, standard form, expanded form, word form, compare, greater than, less than, equal to
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Social Studies: Savvas My World
Chapter 5 ~ Making a Difference
Essential Question: What makes someone a hero?
Lesson 1: I will know what makes someone a hero.
Vocabulary: trait, courage, risk, sacrifice, common, good, goal
Who is a hero?
How does a hero act?
Why does a hero act?
Why are heroes important?
Lesson 2: I will know about heroes who were leaders.
Vocabulary: inspire, justice, Civil War, reservation, behalf
Heroes know how to lead.
Abraham Lincoln
Sitting Bull
Golda Meir
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Science:
Savvas: Elevate Science
Earth Day Activities and Reading
Health: Dental Hygiene
Beginning Topic 6: Habitats (will be working on over the next few weeks with text, activities etc.)
Lesson 1: Identify Habitats
Lesson 2: Living Things in Land Habitats
Lesson 3: Living Things in Water Habitats
Vocabulary:
Lesson 1: habitat, diversity, adaptation
Lesson 2: tundra
Lesson 3: wetland, marsh, swamp, ecologist
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Religion
Order of the Mass, responses during Mass, proper procedures during the course of the Mass
Lesson 14: We Celebrate the Liturgy of the Eucharist
Day 1: We bring forth the gifts of bread and wine.
Day 2: The Eucharist Prayer is the great prayer of thanks and praise.
Day 3: We pray the Our Father and ask God for forgiveness and peace.
Day 4: We receive Jesus Christ in Holy Communion.
Day 5: Partners in Faith: St. Genevieve
Gifted by God: We receive Jesus with Our Body
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UFLI Phonics ~ Grades K-3
Learning Targets ~ Next Generation ELA Standards
Print Concepts
Kindergarten
KRF1: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
KRF1a: Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
KRF1b: Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
KRF1c: Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
KRF1d: Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
KRF1e: Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
First Grade
1RF1: Demonstrate understanding the organization and basic features of print.
1RF1a: Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).
Phonological Awareness
Kindergarten
KRF2: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
KRF2a: Recognize and produce spoken rhyming words.
KRF2b: Blend and segment syllables in spoken words.
KRF2c: Blend and segment onsets and rimes of spoken words.
KRF2d: Blend and segment individual sounds (phonemes)in spoken one-syllable words.
KRF2e: Create new words by manipulating the phonemes orally in one-syllable words.
1st Grade
1RF2: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
1RF2a: Count, blend and segment single syllable words that include consonant blends.
1RF2b: Create new words by manipulating individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken one syllable words.
1RF2c: Manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in single syllable spoken words.
Phonics and Word Recognition
KRF3: Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
KRF3a: Demonstrate one-to-one letter-sound correspondence by producing the primary sound or most frequent sound for each consonant.
KRF3b: Decode short vowel sounds with common spellings.
KRF3c: Decode some regularly spelled one-syllable words.
KRF3d: Read common high-frequency words by sight.
1st Grade
1RF3: Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
1RF3a: Know the letter-sound correspondences for common blends and consonant digraphs (e.g., sh, ch, th).
1RF3b: Decode long vowel sounds in regularly spelled one-syllable words (e.g., final -e conventions and common vowel teams).
1RF3c: Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
1RF3d: Determine the number of syllables in a printed word by using knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound.
1RF3e:Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
1RF3f: Recognize and identify root words and simple suffixes ( e.g. run, runs, walk, walked).
1RF3g: Read most common high-frequency words by sight.
2nd Grade
2RF3: Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
2RF3a: Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words (including common vowel teams).
2RF3b: Decode short and long vowel sounds in two-syllable words.
2RF3c: Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words.
2RF3d: Recognize and identify root words and common suffixes and prefixes.
2RF3e: Read all common high-frequency words by sight.
Fluency
Kindergarten
KRF4: Will engage with emergent-reader texts and read-alouds to demonstrate comprehension.
1st Grade
1RF4: Read beginning reader texts, appropriate to individual student ability, with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
1RF4a: Read beginning reader texts, appropriate to individual student ability, orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
1RF4b: Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
2nd Grade
2RF4: Read grade-level text with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
2RF4a: Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
2RF4b: Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding rereading as necessary.
Second grade standards are used for 3rd grade as well.