California Treasures

Second Grade Unit 2

Week 1-Babu’s Song / Week 2-Tomas and the Library Lady / Week 3-Fighting the Fire / Week 4-One Grain of Rice / Week 5-African-American Inventors
Spelling Words
Main, wait, sail, tail, train, jay, pay, stay, hay, may, rope, nose
High-Frequency Words
Island, special, though / Spelling Words
Eat, mean, need, baby, he, leaf, queen, seek, pony, we, train, stay
High-Frequency Words
Word, morning, against / Spelling Words
Light, sight, mind, cry, tie, high, wild, dry, try, lie, baby, queen
High-Frequency Words
Different, number, other / Spelling Words
Grow, mow, bowl, toe, goes, toast, soap, foam, told, most, light, mind
High-Frequency Words
Anything, everyone, began / Spelling Words
Mule, bugle, fuse, use, flute, June, music, duke, tune, dune, bowl, goes
High-Frequency Words
Building, machine, scientist
Oral Vocab./Vocabulary
Dignity, disposition, embrace, gracious, just, collection, concern, exclaimed, figure, vendors
Writing
Personal Narrative / Oral Vocab./Vocabulary
Complaint, nation, privilege, scent, unique,
eager, finally, glaring, lap, peeked, thorny
Writing
Expository / Oral Vocab./Vocabulary
Brave, escape, glow, prevent, surround, containers, flames, forest, heat, safe
Writing
Research Report / Oral Vocab./Vocabulary
Conquer, energetic, exhausted, hero, physical, amount, clever, collectors, double, reward, store
Writing
Personal Narrative / Oral Vocab./Vocabulary
Devise, ingenious, investigate, superior, wit, allowed, design, instrument, invented, powerful, products
Writing
Biography
Phonics/Comprehension
Long a, reread, character, plot, setting, make predictions, maps / Phonics/Comprehension
Long e, generate questions, identify cause/effect, character, setting, plot, multiple meaning words, photos/captions / Phonics/Comprehension
Long I, summarize, main idea/details, cause/effect, parts of a book, / Phonics/Comprehension
Long o, generate questions, make inferences, character, setting, plot, headings, / Phonics/Comprehension
Long u, reread, compare/contrast, main ideas/details, time line
Grammar
Nouns, commas in a series / Grammar
Plural nouns, capitalization, and commas, prefixes / Grammar
Proper nouns, abbreviations, compound words, word parts, / Grammar
Possessive nouns, plural possessive nouns, plurals, suffixes (-or/-less) / Grammar
plurals and possessives
apostrophes, inflected endings –ed/-ing, suffixes (-ful/-less)

Second Grade Unit 3

Week 1-The Alvin Ailey Kids: Dancing As a Team / Week 2-Abuelo and the Three Bears / Week 3-Music of the Stone Age / Week 4-Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type / Week 5-Stirring Up Memories
Spelling Words
Clerk, herd, first, churn, hurt, term, skirt, stir, burst, turn, music, June
High-Frequency Words
Body, pretty, young / Spelling Words
Near, dear, ear, deer, steer, cheer, verb, perch, here, where, first, hurt
High-Frequency Words
Inside, behind, happened / Spelling Words
Part, start, park, farm, dark, art, hard, far, are, large, near, where
High-Frequency Words
Heavy, region, system / Spelling Words
More, tore, wore, store, oar, roar, board, port, north, fort, farm, dark
High-Frequency Words
carry, once, talk / Spelling Words
Star, shark, care, stare, rare, dare, hair, pair, chair, fair, store, north
High-Frequency Words
Believe, material, built
Oral Vocab./Vocabulary
Annual, anticipate, cherish, emotion, festive, effort, mood, perform, proud, remember
Writing
Expository / Oral Vocab./Vocabulary
Attractive, depart, exaggerate, gesture, soothing, argue, arrive, cozy, medium, noticed, stubborn
Writing
Personal Narrative / Oral Vocab./Vocabulary
Craft, decorate, divide, precious, represents, impossible, pleasant, talent, treasures
Writing
Expository / Oral Vocab./Vocabulary
Depend, modern, operate, produce, supply, demand, emergency, furious, impatient, neutral, sincerely
Writing
Expository / Oral Vocab./Vocabulary
Coincidence, contemplate, explain, scheme, worthy, creating, familiar, glamorous, imagination, memories, occasions
Writing
Poem
Phonics/Comprehension
r-controlled vowels er, ir, ur, visualize, summarize, compare/contrast, thesaurus, antonyms, alliteration/rhythmic patterns / Phonics/Comprehension
r-controlled vowels ear, eer, ere, visualize, summarize, compare/contrast, silent letters kn, gn, wr, mb, idioms, rhyme / Phonics/Comprehension
r-controlled vowels ar, generate questions, author’s purpose, summarize, multiple-meaning words, dictionary/encyclopedia / Phonics/Comprehension
r-controlled vowels or, oar, ore, visualize, cause/effect, author’s purpose, thesaurus/synonyms, bar graphs / Phonics/Comprehension
r-controlled vowels air, are, ear, ere, generate questions, draw conclusions, cause/effect, word roots, alliteration/onomatopoeia,
Grammar
Action verbs, abbreviations, inflected endings –er/-est / Grammar
Present-tense verbs, commas / Grammar
Past-tense verbs, letter punctuation, inflected ending –ed, / Grammar
The verb have, book titles,, suffixes / Grammar
Sentence combining, sentence punctuation, prefixes (re-/un-/dis-)