Grade 2
Week of Monday, April 13, 2026
ELA: (We are finishing up our work started the week before we left for Spring break.)
Unit 4, Week 3 Savvas: MyView Literacy
Title: The Garden of Happiness
Essential Question: What can people do to make a difference in their communties?
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Target: I can learn more about making a difference by reading a story.
Target: I can use elements of narrative nonfiction to write a personal narrative.
Spelling: spelling words with suffixes ( ly, ful, er, less, or )
fearless, useful, teacher, visitor, weekly, helpful, helper, sailor, cheerful, quickly, above, family
High Frequency Words: above, music, family
Academic Vocabulary: connect, responsible, equal, improve
Selection Vocabulary: faded, mural, plots, inhaled, drooped
Comprehension: Theme
Language & Conventions: Comparative and Superlative adjectives: er, est
Commas in dates and letters
Writing: Personal Narrative: using details
Math: Savvas Envision
Topic 9:
Volume 2:
Topic 9: Numbers to 1,000
Essential Question: How can you count, read, and show numbers to 1,000?
Lesson 9-7: Skip count by 5s, 10s, and 100s to 1,000
Lesson 9-8 Compare numbers using place value
Lesson 9-9 Compare numbers on a number line
Lesson 9-10 Look for and use structure
Lesson 9 Review
Assessment: Tuesday, 9/21
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 4 ~ People Who Who Supply Our Goods and Services
Essential Question: How do people get what they need
Lesson 1 ~ Needs, Wants, and Choices
I will know the difference between a need and a want.
Vocabulary: needs, wants, choice, scarce, barter, purchase
Critical Thinking Skills: Analyze Costs and Benefits
Lesson 2: Food Producers
Vocabulary: producers, harvest, nature, capital resources and human resources
I will know farmers use the land to produce food.
Literacy Skills: Identify Main Idea and Details: Farming Then & Now
Review for Assessment: Friday, 4/17
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Science:
Savvas: Elevate Science
Topic 5: Plants and Animals
Essential Question: What do animals and plants need to survive?
Experiment:
How does the stem function in a plant?
Lesson 4: Animals Can Help Plants Reproduce
Vocabulary: disperse, pollination
Seeds Can Travel
Pollen Can Travel
Quest Check in Lab:
What is Pollination?
Review
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Religion
Preparation for 1st Holy Communion:
Order of the Mass, responses during Mass, proper procedures during the course of the Mass
Lesson 12: We Gather for the Celebration of the Eucharist
Faith Words: assembly, eucharist
We are united to Jesus Christ and to one another.
The Church celebrates the Mass.
The parish gathers for the celebration of Mass.
When Mass begins, we praise God and ask for forgiveness.
Partners in Faith: St. Catherine of Siena
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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.