Second Grade

SECOND GRADE

Curriculum Map

Our Place on the Planet

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Intro. PBIS/ Lifeskills
• Community Building
• Conflict Resolution

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Reading Assessment
• English Language Development (ELD)
• Set-up Guided Reading Groups
• Reading Buddies
• On Demand Writing Prompt#1

MATH

• Zearn Math

Grade 2 mathematics is about:

Extending understanding of base-ten notation
Building fluency with addition and subtraction
Using standard units of measure
Describing and analyzing shapes

Exploring the Earth

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Leveled Reading Groups
• Begin Writer’s Workshop
• Grammar: nouns, adjectives, verbs, capitalization, periods.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Unit 2 – The Land Around Us/Geography
• Unit 3 – Governing the People

SCIENCE

• Twig Science
• Science-in-Action

Comparing Today with Long Ago

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Story Elements
• Writer’s Workshop
• Grammar – commas, quotation marks, compound words, synonyms, antonyms

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Unit 1 - Families, Now and Long Ago
• Heritage Unit

Caring about our Community

LANGUAGE ARTS

• On Demand Writing Prompt#2
• Non-Fiction reading and Informational writing
• Grammar – Homonyms, contractions, abbreviations
• Using Resources – Thesaurus, dictionary, atlas
• Read Around the Clock Pajama Day

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Biographies of “Proud Americans”

Where Our Food Comes From

LANGUANGE ARTS

• Prefix, suffix, word analysis
• Writer’s Workshop Publishing
• Review of all concepts

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Unit 4 – Food Production and Consumption Long Ago and Today
• Unit 2 – Communities
• Community Project
• Open House
• Unit 5 – People in the Marketplace

Growing in the Garden

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Continue to review all writing conventions
• Writer’s Workshop Publishing (con’t)
• Insect Reports
• Playing with Poetry with Theater Works

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Mapping

END OF YEAR ASSESSMENTS

• District Narrative On Demand Writing Prompt#3
• End of year Reading Assessment
• End of Year Math Assessment