Second Grade- Reading Focus Calendar
August 2013
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions1 / 2
5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9
12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16
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First Day
of School / 20 / 21 / 22 / 23 / Star Smart S2-S35
26 / 27 / 28 / 29 / 30 / Unit 1 Week 1: T1-91
How do I ask and answer questions as who, hat, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in text?
Oral Vocabulary: awkward, outrageous, panic, relief, squawked
September 2013
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions2
Labor Day / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / Unit 1 Week 2: T92-T183
How do I describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges?
Oral Vocabulary: colorful, confusing, noticed, overflowing, tasty
9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / Unit 1 Week3: T184-T275
How do I use information gained from illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot?
Oral Vocabulary: apologized, gazed, partner, rummaged, scent
16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20 / Unit 1 Week4: T276-T367
How do specific images contribute to and clarify a text?
Oral Vocabulary: duty, equipment, professions, satisfaction, thorough
23 / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27
Teacher Workday / Unit 1 Week5:
How do I ask and answer questions as who, hat, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in text?
Oral Vocabulary: exchange, homework, lucky, members, treasure
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October 2013
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / Unit 2 Week 1:
How do I describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges?
Oral Vocabulary: capture, chorus, croak, reason, visitor
7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / Unit 2 Week 2:
How do I describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges?
Oral Vocabulary: affection, crave, frustrated, nourishment, seek
14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18 / Unit 2 Week 3:
How do I identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text?
Oral Vocabulary: defend, encounter, located, positive, react
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Teacher
Workday / 22 / 23 / 24 / 25 / Unit 2 Week 4:
How do I identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text?
Oral Vocabulary:
Guide, leader, protect, provide, separate
28 / 29 / 30 / 31 / Unit 2 Week 5:
How do I ask and answer questions as who, hat, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in text?
Oral Vocabulary: alarm, howling, knobby, munch, problem
November 2013
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions1 / Unit __ Week ___:
Oral Vocabulary:
4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / Unit 3 Week 1 :
How do I acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud?
Oral Vocabulary: college, famous, path, planets, straight
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Student/Teacher Holiday / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / Unit 3 Week 2:
How do I describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action?
Oral Vocabulary: exactly, present, reports, telescope, total,
18 / 19 / 20 / 21 / 22 / Unit 3 Week 3:
How do I identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe?
Oral Vocabulary: artist, celebration, commented, community, mural
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Thanksgiving Holiday / 26 / 27 / 28 / 29
December 2013
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / Unit 3 Week 4:
What are text features and how do I use them to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently?
Oral Vocabulary: gloomy, pleasant, predict, reflect, rises
9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / Unit 3 Week 5:
What are text features and how do I use them to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently?
Oral Vocabulary: communicate, festivals, respect, squeezing, tradition
16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20 / Unit 4 Week 1:
How do I describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text?
Oral Vocabulary: factories, harbors, produce, timber, valleys
23
Winter Break / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27
30 / 31
January 2014
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions1
Winter Break Continues / 2 / 3
6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / Unit 4 Week 2:
What are text features and how do I use them to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently?
Oral Vocabulary: carved, glide, sphere, suddenly, surface
13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17
Teacher
Workday / Unit 4 Week 3:
How do I describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges?
Oral Vocabulary: accompanies, assigns, crowded, locker, usual
20
Teacher/
Student
Holiday / 21 / 22 / 23 / 24 / Unit 4 Week 4:
How do I recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral?
Oral Vocabulary: blustery, chilly, drenched, drizzle, task
27 / 28 / 29 / 30 / 31 / Unit 4 Week 5:
How do I recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral?
Oral Vocabulary: broad, dunes, plump, swaying, twirling
February 2014
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / Unit 5 Week 1:
How do I identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe?
Oral Vocabulary: exhausted, calm, concern, treat, offered
10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / Unit 5 Week 2:
How do I identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe?
Oral Vocabulary: instructions, decorate, shiver, audience, pretended
17
Teacher/
Student
Holiday / 18 / 19 / 20 / 21 / Unit 5 Week 3:
How do I identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe?
Oral Vocabulary: refused, competing, limited, inspired, overcome
24 / 25 / 26 / 27 / 28 / Unit 5 Week 4:
How do I describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges?
Oral Vocabulary: hesitated, reasons, pollution, suggest, memorable
March 2014
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / Unit 5 Week 5:
How do I describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text?
Oral Vocabulary: elected, transportation, services, recycle, permission
10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / Unit 6 Week 1:
How do I recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral?
Oral Vocabulary: disturb, entire, magnificent, stumbled, trembled
17 / 18 / 19 / 20 / 21 / Unit 6 Week 2 :
How do I identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe?
Oral Vocabulary: charge effects, rushes, slight streak
24
Spring Break / 25 / 26 / 27 / 28
31
Teacher Workday
April 2014
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / Unit 6 Week 3:
How do I identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text?
Oral Vocabulary: attach, collect, deliver, experiments, nations
7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / Unit 6 Week 4:
How do I describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text?
Oral Vocabulary: charity, image, popular, portrait, symbol
14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18
Teacher/
Student
Holiday / Unit 6 Week 5:
How do I acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud?
Oral Vocabulary: flash, igloo, moat, orchestra, snore
21 / 22 / 23 / 24 / 25 / Unit __ Week ___:
Oral Vocabulary:
28 / 29 / 30 / 1 / 2 / Unit __ Week ___:
Oral Vocabulary:
May 2014
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions1 / 2
5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / Unit __ Week ___:
Oral Vocabulary:
12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / Unit __ Week ___:
Oral Vocabulary:
19 / 20 / 21 / 22 / 23 / Unit __ Week ___:
Oral Vocabulary:
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Teacher/
Student
Holiday / 27 / 28 / 29 / 30 / Unit __ Week ___:
Oral Vocabulary:
June 2014
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
Last Day of School / Unit __ Week ___:
Oral Vocabulary:
9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13
16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20
23 / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27
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