Core Curriculum Guidegrade Level:2 Content Area:Reading

Huron School District

Core Curriculum GuideGrade Level:2 Content Area:Reading

Unit Title: Month(s): August/September

Content Standards:

2.R.1.1 Students can decode to read and recognize words

2.R.2.1 Students can apply strategies to read and comprehend text

2.R.2.2 Students can read aloud fluently to comprehend text

2.R.3.1 Students can recognize different genres of literature

2.R.3.2 Students can identify the literary elements of character, setting, plot, and theme in literature

2.R.5.1 Students can identify text features to comprehend informational text

Essential Questions:

Skills
Students Will Be Able To… / Essential Vocabulary / Assessment
How will you know if students have learned?
Phonics: short vowels, long vowels with silent e
Identify and know the meaning of weekly vocab words / Vowels, short, long
Silent e
vocabulary / Weekly assessments and
worksheets
44 Sounds
Weekly Spelling
Graph sight words
NWEA
Dibels / Treasures Reading Series
Pull from other resources (Mailbox mag.)
Essential Skills Disks
Direct Instruction
DRA Lab
SRA Lab
Analyze character, setting, plot
Main idea and details
Retell story / literature
character
plot
setting
main idea
details / Weekly assessments and worksheets
NWEA
Taking from different genre books and reading
Formative assessment
Read aloud / Speech
SRA Lab
Treasures Reading Series
Pull from other resources (Mailbox mag.)
Library
Read-alouds
Music Teacher
Computer games-ear robics
Dr. Suess
Identify table of contents, author, illustrator, title page, glossary, index, captions, lists, graphs, photos / title page
index
table of contents
body of book
glossary
text features
alphabetical order
author
illustrator
captions
list
graph
photograph / Weekly reading assessment
Phone book
dictionary
glossary
library books
ABC order activities / library
Treasures reading series
Phone Book
Dictionary
Word cards
Lunch line
ABC line
File folder activities
Differentiate between fiction and nonfiction text / Fiction
Non-fiction
True, real, fact
Fantasy, make-believe / Weekly reading assessment
Read-aloud
Library books

Unit Title: Month(s): October

Content Standards:

2.R.1.1 Students can decode to read and recognize words

2.R.2.1 Students can apply strategies to read and comprehend text

2.R.2.2 Students can read aloud fluently to comprehend text

2.R.3.1 Students can recognize different genres of literature

2.R.3.2 Students can identify the literary elements of character, setting, plot, and theme in literature

2.R.1.2 Students can read simple contractions and identify the two words that are combined in text

2.R.5.2 Students can apply alphabetical order to the second letter

2.R.5.1 Students can identify text features to comprehend informational text

Essential Questions:

Skills
Students Will Be Able To… / Essential Vocabulary / Assessment
How will you know if students have learned?
Phonics: Long vowels with silent e, review short vowels, -er, -est
Consonant blends (sl,sp,dr, sk, st)
Weekly vocab. words / Vowels, short, long
Vocabulary
consonants / Weekly assessments and worksheets
44 Sounds
Weekly Spelling
sight words
NWEA
Dibels / Treasures Reading Series
Pull from other resources (Mailbox mag.)
Essential Skills Disks
Direct Instruction
DRA Lab
SRA Lab
Drawing conclusions
Summarizing
Plot
Inferences
Sequencing
Fiction and nonfiction / Summarize
Conclusion
Inference
Beginning, middle, end
Fiction
Nonfiction / Weekly assessments and worksheets
Read aloud and discussions
Accelerated reader
Student retell / Speech
SRA Lab
DRA Lab
Treasures Reading Series
Pull from other resources (Mailbox mag.)
Essential Skills Disks
Direct Instruction
Contractions – she’s, he’s, we’re, they’re, don’t, doesn’t, we’ll, I’ve / Contraction
apostrophe / Weekly reading sheets and tests
Grammar books
Writing activities
ABC order / Alphabet
order / Weekly reading tests and sheets
Alphabetizing spelling words or other lists
Lunch line order daily
Diagrams and labels, captions / Diagram
Label
caption / Reading text – diagrams and captions, labels in various stories
Student made diagrams, etc.
Weekly tests and sheets for reading series

Unit Title: Month(s): November

Content Standards:2.R.1.1 Students can decode to read and recognize words

2.R.2.1 Students can apply strategies to read and comprehend text

2.R.2.2 Students can read aloud fluently to comprehend text

2.R.3.1 Students can recognize different genres of literature

2.R.3.2 Students can identify the literary elements of character, setting, plot, and theme in literature

2.R.1.2 Students can read simple contractions and identify the two words that are combined in text

2.R.5.2 Students can apply alphabetical order to the second letter

2.R.4.2 Students can compare and contrast different stories from various time periods

2.R.5.1 Students can identify text features to comprehend informational text

Essential Questions:

Skills
Students Will Be Able To… / Essential Vocabulary / Assessment
How will you know if students have learned?
Phonics: long a, ay, ai, igh, ie, y, long i, long o, ow, oe, oa, long e, ee, ea, ey, long u, u_e, consonant digraphs (ch, th, wh, sh, ph, tch) / Long vowels
consonants / Weekly assessments and
worksheets
44 Sounds
Weekly Spelling
Graph sight words
NWEA
Dibels
Inferences
Cause and effect
Drawing conclusions
Using Context Clues / Inference
Cause
Effect
Conclusion
Context clue / Weekly assessments and worksheets
NWEA
Taking from different genre books and reading
Formative assessment
Read aloud
Using Illustrations
Synonyms
Antonyms / Illustration
Synonyms
antonyms / Weekly assessments and worksheets
NWEA
Taking from different genre books and reading
Formative assessment
Read aloud
Grammar text
Prefixes and Suffixes (-ful, -less, un, re, dis) / Prefix
suffix / Weekly assessments and worksheets
NWEA
Formative assessment
Grammar text
Fiction and nonfiction / Fiction
nonfiction / Weekly reading assessment
Read-aloud
Library books

Unit Title: Month(s): December

Content Standards:

2.R.1.1 Students can decode to read and recognize words

2.R.2.1 Students can apply strategies to read and comprehend text

2.R.2.2 Students can read aloud fluently to comprehend text

2.R.3.1 Students can recognize different genres of literature

2.R.3.2 Students can identify the literary elements of character, setting, plot, and theme in literature

2.R.1.2 Students can read simple contractions and identify the two words that are combined in text

2.R.5.2 Students can apply alphabetical order to the second letter

2.R.4.2 Students can compare and contrast different stories from various time periods

2.R.5.1 Students can identify text features to comprehend informational text

Essential Questions:

Skills
Students Will Be Able To… / Essential Vocabulary / Assessment
How will you know if students have learned?
Phonics: triple consonant blends (spr, str, scr), ar, or / Consonant
blend / Weekly assessments and worksheets
NWEA
Taking from different genre books and reading
Formative assessment
Read aloud
Cause and effect
Character, setting
Inferences / Cause
Effect
Character
Setting
inferences / Weekly reading assessment
Read-aloud
Library books
Synonyms and antonyms
Making predictions
Using illustrations
Compare and contrast / Synonyms
Antonyms
Predict
Illustrations
Compare
contrast / Weekly assessments and worksheets
NWEA
Formative assessment
Grammar text
Main idea/details / Main idea
details / Weekly reading assessment
Read-aloud
Library books
NWEA
Taking from different genre books and reading
Formative assessment
Fiction and nonfiction / Fiction
nonfiction / Weekly reading assessment
Read-aloud
Library books

Unit Title: Month(s): January

Content Standards:

2.R.1.1 Students can decode to read and recognize words

2.R.2.1 Students can apply strategies to read and comprehend text

2.R.2.2 Students can read aloud fluently to comprehend text

2.R.3.1 Students can recognize different genres of literature

2.R.3.2 Students can identify the literary elements of character, setting, plot, and theme in literature

2.R.1.2 Students can read simple contractions and identify the two words that are combined in text

2.R.5.2 Students can apply alphabetical order to the second letter

2.R.4.2 Students can compare and contrast different stories from various time periods

2.R.5.1 Students can identify text features to comprehend informational text

2.R.4.1 Students can compare and contrast different versions of literature from different cultures

Essential Questions:

Skills
Students Will Be Able To… / Essential Vocabulary / Assessment
How will you know if students have learned?
Phonics: er, ir, ur, oo, ou, ui, ew, ue, oe, au, aw / R controlled vowels
Vowels
Variant vowels / Weekly assessments and
worksheets
44 Sounds
Weekly Spelling
Graph sight words
NWEA
Dibels
Cause and effect
Character and setting
inferences / Cause
Effect
Character
Setting
inferences / Weekly reading assessment
Read-aloud
Library books
Fiction and nonfiction
Predictions
Using illustrations
Using text features / Fiction
Nonfiction
Predict
Illustration
Caption, diagram / Weekly reading assessment
Read-aloud
Library books
Drawing conclusions / conclusions / Weekly reading assessment
Read-aloud
Library books

Unit Title: Month(s): February

Content Standards:

2.R.1.1 Students can decode to read and recognize words

2.R.2.1 Students can apply strategies to read and comprehend text

2.R.2.2 Students can read aloud fluently to comprehend text

2.R.3.1 Students can recognize different genres of literature

2.R.3.2 Students can identify the literary elements of character, setting, plot, and theme in literature

2.R.1.2 Students can read simple contractions and identify the two words that are combined in text

2.R.5.2 Students can apply alphabetical order to the second letter

2.R.4.2 Students can compare and contrast different stories from various time periods

2.R.5.1 Students can identify text features to comprehend informational text

2.R.4.1 Students can compare and contrast different versions of literature from different cultures

2.R.3.3 Students can identify rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and a simple pattern in poetry

Essential Questions:

Skills
Students Will Be Able To… / Essential Vocabulary / Assessment
How will you know if students have learned?
Phonics: diphthongs (ow, ou) oi, oy, schwa (around, ago, away) / Weekly assessments and
worksheets
44 Sounds
Weekly Spelling
Graph sight words
NWEA
Dibels
Author’s purpose
Possessive nouns / Author
Purpose
Nouns
possessive / Weekly assessments and worksheets
NWEA
Taking from different genre books and reading
Formative assessment
Read aloud
Inferences
Summarizing
Sequencing
Compare and contrast / Inference
Summarize
Sequence
Compare
contrast / Weekly assessments and worksheets
NWEA
Taking from different genre books and reading
Formative assessment
Read aloud
Text features – charts
Problem and solution / Chart
Problem
solution / Weekly assessments and worksheets
NWEA
Taking from different genre books and reading
Formative assessment
Read aloud
Main idea and details / Main idea
details / Weekly assessments and worksheets
NWEA
Taking from different genre books and reading
Formative assessment
Read aloud

Unit Title: Month(s): March