Weeks 11-12 are combined—each week includes few instructional days. Week of November 5 Weeks of November 12-22 Nonfiction Sources _topic/trade book _ biography _ history __ video __museum exhibit _topic/trade book _ biography _ history __ video __museum exhibit and DEVELOP NONFICTION LITERACY CCSSRI.2.2 Organize information to support idea of paragraph. CCSSRI2.7, integrate information from different sources Integrate NONFICTION reading and visual resources to explore a topic with a Focus Question. Classify information from pictures and text in a chart and tell how you do it. Science example: facts about animals; facts about environment. Use text structure (paragraphs and sections) to tell what the ideas in a text are). Make glossary Choose a topic you have learned about. List important information. Draw pictures that show that information. Write captions. Tell the BIG idea that your information supports. Second Grade: Second Quarter, Weeks 13-14 Learning Priorities LITERATURE AND FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS Week of November 26 Week of December 3 Literature Genre Poem Poem Reading Literature CCSSR2.4. Describe how words and phrases (e.g., Interpret images in a poem language Tell what the words mean and how they help you see the idea. Interpret images in a poem –figurative language Tell what the words mean and how they help you see the idea.
_ history __ video __museum exhibit _ history __ video __museum exhibit and DEVELOP NONFICTION LITERACY CCSSRi2.5 text features show the writer’s choices to show relationships that CCSSR2.2 communicate ideas Integrate NONFICTION reading and visual resources to explore a topic with a Focus Question. Use text features to find information. Figure out the main idea of a and list information that supports it. What ideas does the writer want you to learn? Integrate NONFICTION reading and visual resources to explore a topic with a Focus Question. Use text features to find information. Figure out the main idea of a paragraph and list information that supports it. Then list ideas from a few paragraphs in same text. What ideas does the writer want you to learn? 2nd Grade: Second Quarter, Weeks 17-18 Learning Priorities LITERATURE AND FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS Week of January 7 Week of January 14 Literature Genre __historical fiction __folk tale __realistic fiction __fable __ ______________________ __historical fiction __folk tale __realistic fiction __fable __ ______________________ CCSSRL2.5 story structure LITERATURE TERMS: Analyze kinds of “make-believe” stories (such as fable, realistic story, folktale) –Kinds of characters, kinds of events, kinds of settings. How they are different. What structures do they share? Analyze kinds of “make-believe” stories (such as fable, realistic story, folktale) How they are different. What structures do they share? What would a writer plan to write each kind?
What would the writer ask the illustrator to include in pictures? What would the writer ask the illustrator to include in pictures? In addition to scheduled sight words include phrases such as the Fry Phrases. Explain contractions found in text. Sight Words: PHONICS: Compare contractions and possessives. Sight Words: PHONICS: explanatory/informational Write a paragraph (first, analyze one in a text) then write it Write a paragraph (first, analyze one in a text) then write it 2nd Grade: Second Quarter, Weeks 17-18 Learning Priorities NONFICTION LITERACY IN SCIENCE AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Read to Learn… Learn to Read BETTER! Week of January 7 Week of January 14 Nonfiction Sources _topic/trade book _ biography _ history __ video __museum exhibit _topic/trade book _ biography _ history __ video __museum exhibit and DEVELOP NONFICTION LITERACY Figure out how the parts of a text fit together—to tell a sequence or to explain Integrate NONFICTION reading and visual resources to explore a topic with a Focus Question. Use text features to figure out the parts. Figure out how the parts of a text fit together—either to tell a sequence or as parts of a whole topic—its subtopics. Integrate NONFICTION reading and visual resources to explore a topic with a Focus Question. Use text features to figure out the parts. Figure out how the parts of a text fit to tell a sequence
a topic with different sub-topics. (CCSSR3) Figure out important ideas from diagrams Write to explain what you learned with evidence/examples and your own diagrams. or as parts of a whole topic—its subtopics. Figure out important ideas from diagrams Write to explain what you learned with evidence/examples and your own diagrams. 2nd Grade: Second Quarter, Weeks 19-20 Learning Priorities LITERATURE AND FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS Week of January 21 Week of January 28 Comprehensive Assessment Literature Genre __historical fiction __folk tale __realistic fiction __fable __ ______________________ __historical fiction __folk tale __realistic fiction __fable __ ______________________ CCSSRL.2.2—theme of a story CCSSRL2.3 Analyze a story’s development How do you Identify theme? —what lesson the writer wants you to how the writer communicates it through the characters and events. Read new stories or revisit familiar ones to identify genre and figure out the theme. Theme: ____________ How the writer helps me understand it Make a “how to read a story guide— What do you first when you read a story. Then what do you do? What do you do when you finish reading the story? Why do people re-read stories? Make a How to read a poem guide--What do you do when you read a poem? What do you do first? Then what do you do? Why do people re-read poems? In addition to scheduled sight words include phrases such as the Fry Phrases. Use contractions in sentences. Use possessives in sentences. Sight Words: Identify and explain contractions when reading. Explain and give examples of possessives.