Grade 2 ELA
Scope
How do the texts I read and write help me to know more about myself and my world past and present?
How can stories/texts from other places and times relate to our current lives?
Unit — What Is Important to Our Classroom Community?
Essential Questions
How do texts convey a purpose and reveal what is important to a classroom community?
Guiding Questions
What is the author’s purpose?
How does the character(s) respond to the major events and challenges in the books?
What values are shown in the books that we want to represent in our classroom community?
How does the main topic or central idea relate to our classroom?
How can you retell the events in a story using a beginning, middle and end?
How can you identify the problem and solution in a story?
How can you use text evidence from the story to identify character traits?
Reading
Anchor Texts:
Roller Coaster by Marla Frazee
Fireflies by Julie Brinckloe
When the Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Fiction Skills:
Students will:
develop a purpose for reading.
identify the author’s purpose.
identify the beginning, middle, and end of a text.
identify the problem in the story.
identify the solution to the problem
identify character traits and how the character develops over the course of a story.
identify a main topic or idea in a story.
describe a character, setting, or event of a story.
identify and retell key details in a story.
summarize a story.
make text to self connections, text to text connections, and text to world connections.
Writing
Anchor Writing:
TC Revving up Unit
TC Narrative Writing Unit
Writing about Reading
Skills:
Students will:
ask and answer questions about texts they read.
write narratives which recount real or imagined experiences or a short sequence of events.
include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings.
use temporal words to signal event order.
Reading: 2R1, 2R2, 2R3, 2R4, 2R5, 2R6, 2R7, 2R9
Writing: 2W1, 2W3
Unit — What Is Important to My Community, Country and World? Name That Community
Essential Questions
How do the texts I read and the important information, values, beliefs etc. presented connect to me ? (How do these values connect to what is important to me?)
Guiding Questions
How do fiction and non-fiction connect?
What is similar about fiction and non-fiction and the ideas that are presented?
What is different about fiction and non-fiction and the ideas that are presented?
How does an author convey what is important through fiction and non-fiction?
How are a community’s values emphasized through writing?
Where do I see my own values, beliefs, ideas in the texts I read?
How are a community’s values demonstrated in literature?
How do we see different types of communities in texts?
Reading
Anchor Unit:
The Little House by Virgina Lee Burton
City Kid; Suburb Kid by Deb Pilutti
Non-Fiction Skills:
Students will:
develop a purpose for reading.
summarize parts of a text and the whole text.
identify text features.
identify how text features contribute to the author’s overall purpose.
explain the difference between fiction and non-fiction texts.
make text to self connections, text to text connections, and text to world connections.
Writing
Anchor Writing:
TC Opinion Writing Unit
Writing about Reading
Skills:
Students will:
ask and answer questions about texts they read.
write an opinion about a topic.
support their opinion with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
organize their evidence logically.
use linking words and phrases to connect their ideas.
provide a concluding statement or section.
Reading: 2R1, 2R2, 2R3, 2R4, 2R5, 2R6, 2R7, 2R8, 2R9
Writing: 2W2,2W4,
Unit — Stories from the Past: Similarities and Differences to What Is Important Today: Timeless Tales
Essential Questions
How do the tales told long ago reveal important information about people today? How are these ideas still important today?How do these values connect to what is important to me and my community?
Guiding Questions
How are the communities presented in the texts similar to and different from my community?
How does where and when you live impact the stories you tell?
How are the values, beliefs and ideas from long ago connected to what's important today?
How do fairy tales reveal what is important to people past and present?
How do fairy tales reveal the flaws/problems of people?
How do the lessons in fairy tales compare and contrast to the lessons in other genres?
How do the values in fairy tales compare and contrast to what we hold as important in real life?
How do we find true happiness?
What makes someone or something beautiful?
How do tall tales reveal what is important to people?
How do tall tales reveal the flaws in people?
How do the lessons in tall tales compare and contrast to the lessons in other genres?
How do the values in tall tales compare and contrast to what we hold as important in real life?
How are the problems and issues presented in fairy tales and tall tales similar to and different from what we experience?
Reading
Anchor Unit:
Fairy Tales
"The Fisherman and His Wife" retold by Rachel Isadora
"The Emperor’s New Clothes" by Demi
"Beauty and the Beast parts 1 and 2" retold by Jan Brett
Tall Tales:
"John Henry" by Ezra and Jack Keats
"Paul Bunyan" by Steven Kellogg
"Pecos Bill" by Steven Kellogg
"Casey Jones" adapted by Stephen Krensky
Fiction Skills:
Students will:
develop a purpose for reading.
identify the author’s purpose.
identify the beginning, middle, and end of a text.
identify the problem in the story.
identify the solution to the problem.
identify character traits and how the character develops over the course of a story.
identify a main topic or idea in a story.
describe a character, setting, or event of a story.
identify and retell key details in a story.
summarize a story.
make text to self connections, text to text connections, and text to world connections.
identify different genres within fiction.
Writing
Anchor Writing:
TC Information Writing Unit
Writing about Reading
Skills:
Students will:
ask and answer questions about texts they read.
write explanatory/informative texts that introduce a topic to develop a topic.
organize their evidence logically.
use linking words and phrases to connect their ideas.
provide a concluding statement or section.
Reading: 2R3, 2R4, 2R5, 2R6, 2R7, 2R8, 2R9
Writing: 2W1, 2W4, 2W6