Students focus on personal experience writing and informational writing. Emphasis is placed on writing an introductory sentence, detail sentences, and a conclusion sentence in each paragraph. Students also focus on sequential writing. Students are grouped for whole group and small group instruction based on individual needs for skills instruction. Students have an individualized reading program through Reading Renaissance.
Science also includes units on heat, light, sound, magnets, energy, chemical changes, and animals.
Physical Education, Art, Music, Guidance, Library, and Spanish are also included in second grade. Weekly word lists are used from the county adopted spelling series. They emphasize phonics such as vowel pairs and spelling patterns and rules. This includes sentences, proper nouns, dates, book titles, plurals and possessives, and letter parts. Also, students are taught to identify subjects and predicates.