Grade 2
Week of Monday, March 23, 2026
ELA:
Unit 4, Week 2
Savvas: MyView Literacy
Title: Building on Nature: The Life of Antoni Guadi
Essential Question: How can our creations affect others?
Genre: Biography
Target: I can read a biography and use print and graphic features.
Target: I can use elements of narrative nonfiction to write a personal narrative.
Target: I can learn about connections among people.
Spelling: spelling words with open syllables: v/cv
bonus, human, lazy, diner, tulip, silent, meter, crater, bacon, cubic, talk, being
High Frequency Words: being, song, talk
Academic Vocabulary: disconnect, irresponsible, destroy, argue
Selection Vocabulary: observes, architect, monuments, creations, arches
Comprehension: Authors using descriptive language, Using Text Features: titles, pictures, captions, and headings
Language & Conventions: Comparative and Superlative adjectives: er, est
Writing: Personal Narrative, Biography research and writing
Math: Savvas Envision
Topic 8: Time & Money Review and test on Tuesday, 3/24
Beginning Volume 2:
Topic 9: Numbers to 1,000
Essential Question: How can you count, read, and show numbers to 1,000?
Lesson 9-1 - Understand Hundreds
Lesson 9-2 - Models and 3 Digit Numbers
Lesson 9-3 - Name Place Values
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.
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Science:
Savvas: Elevate Science
Topic 5: Plants and Animals
Essential Question: What do animals and plants need to survive?
Lesson 1: Animal and Plant Life Cycles
Learning Target: I can describe some plant and animal life cycles.
Vocabulary: plant, animal, life cycle,
Lesson 2: Plant Needs
Learning Target: I can explain that plants need sunlight, air, water, space,and nutrients.
Learning Target: I can
Vocabulary: roots, stem, leaves, flower, nutrients,
Lesson 3: Animal Needs
Learning Target: I can explain that animals need food, oxygen, water, and shelter.
How do animals use their senses to get food?
Vocabulary: shelter
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Religion
Preparation for our 1st Penance and Reconciliation
Lenten Learning
Mass on Tuesday mornings at 9:00
Lesson 11: Day 3: In the Eucharist, we remember and celebrate what Jesus did at the Last Supper.
Lesson 11: Day 4: The Mass is a meal and a sacrifice.
Partners in Faith: Saint Pius X
Gifted by God: God knows what we need.
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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.