Western Elementary 2Nd Grade

Western Elementary 2nd Grade

Language Arts Syllabus

1stNine Weeks

Reading:

• Identify key ideas and details in literature and informational text by:
• answering the questions who, what, why, when, where, and how.
• determining the central message or moral in a story, and/or
• describing how characters respond to major events and challenges.
• Explore story structure, rhythm of phrases, text features, characters' point of view, and author's purpose.
• Demonstrate understanding of a story or text.
• Identify supporting information toward key points.
• Continue to improve overall reading levels as well as develop fluency, phonics and word analysis skills.

Writing & Communication:

• Write opinion, informative, and narrative texts.
• Strengthen writing through guidance and support.
• Research and present the knowledge they have gained through projects and shared information.
• Participate in group discussions with peers.
• Present key ideas either orally or through other media.
• Ask and answer questions from orally presented information in order to clarify information or deepenunderstanding.
• Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and details.
• Create audio recordings of stories or poems. And, add drawings or other visual displays to clarify ideas, thoughts orfeelings about a story or experience.
• Demonstrate command of standard English grammar when speaking and writing including
• collective nouns and irregular plural nouns,
• reflexive pronouns,
• past tense and irregular verbs,
• adjectives and adverbs,
• the ability to expand and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences,
• appropriate use of capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing, and
• the use of reference materials, such as dictionaries, to check and correct spelling.
• Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, and listening (i.e. compare formaland informal uses of English).
• Use a variety of strategies to clarify the meaning of unknown or multiple-meaning words found in 2nd grade content.
• Understand word relationships and nuances in word meanings. ln other words, students will expand theirvocabularies.

2nd Nine Weeks

Reading:

• Identify key ideas and details in literature and informational text by:
• Answering the questions who, what, why, when, where, and how.
• Determining the central message or moral in a story, and/or
• Describing how characters respond to major events and challenges.
• Acknowledge different points of view of characters including by speaking in a different voices when dialogue is readaloud.

• Know and use various text features.
• Use context clues to determine the meaning of words and phrases relevant to the topic or subject area.
• Demonstrate understanding of a story or text.
• Compare and contrast 2 or more versions of the same story, or 2 or more non-fiction texts on the same subject.
• Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas, or steps in a procedural text.Identify supporting information toward key points.
• Continue to improve overall reading levels as well as develop fluency, phonics and word analysis skills.

Writing & Communication:

• Write opinion, informative, and narrative texts.
• Strengthen writing through guidance and support.

• Research and present the knowledge they have gained through projects and shared information.
• Participate in group discussions with peers.
• Present key ideas either orally or through other media.
• Ask and answer questions from orally presented information in order to clarify information or deepenunderstanding.
• Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and details.
• Create audio recordings of stories or poems. And, add drawings or other visual displays to clarify ideas, thoughts or

feelings about a story or experience.

• Demonstrate command of standard English grammar when speaking and writing including:
• collective nouns and irregular plural nouns
• reflexive pronouns
• past tense and irregular verbs,
• adjectives and adverbs,
• the ability to expand and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences,
• appropriate use of capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing, andthe use of reference materials, such as dictionaries, to check and correct spelling.

• Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, and listening (i.e. compare formaland informal uses of English).
• Use a variety of strategies to clarify the meaning of unknown or multiple-meaning words found in 2nd grade content.
• Understand word relationships and nuances in word meanings.Moreover, students will expand theirvocabularies.

3rd Nine Weeks

Reading:

• Identify key ideas and details in literature and informational text by:
• answering the questions who, what, why, when, where, and how,
• Determining the centralmessage or moral in a story, and/or
• Describing how characters respond to major events and challenges.
• Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

• Explore different points of view of characters including by speaking in a different voices when dialogue is read aloud.
• Know and use various text features.
• Use context clues to determine the meaning of words and phrases relevant to the topic or subject area.
• Demonstrate understanding of a story or text.
• Compare and contrast 2 or more non-fiction texts on the same subject.
• Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas, or steps in a procedural text.
• Identify supporting information toward key points.
• Continue to improve overall reading levels as well as develop fluency, phonics and word analysis skills.

Writing & Communication:

• Write opinion and informative texts.
• Strengthen writing through guidance and support.
• Use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing.
• Research and present the knowledge they have gained through projects and shared information.
• Participate in group discussions with peers.
• Present key ideas either orally or through other media.
• Ask and answer questions from orally presented information in order to clarify information or deepenunderstanding.
• Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and details.
• Create audio recordings of stories or poems. And, add drawings or other visual displays to clarify ideas, thoughts or

feelings about a story or experience.

• Demonstrate command of standard English grammar when speaking and writing including:
• collective nouns and irregular plural nouns,
• reflexive pronouns,
• past tense and irregular verbs,
• adjectives and adverbs,
• the ability to expand and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences,
• appropriate use of capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing and
• the use of reference materials, such as dictionaries, to check and correct spelling.
• Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, and listening (i.e. compare formal

and informal uses of English).

• Use a variety of strategies to clarify the meaning of unknown or multiple-meaning words found in 2nd grade content.
• Understand word relationships and nuances in word meanings. In other words, students will expand their vocabularies.

4th Nine Weeks

Reading:

• Identify key ideas and details in literature and informational text by:
• Determining the central message or moral in a story, and/or
• Describe how characters respond to major events and challenges.
• Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning to a poem, song, or story.
• Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
• Know and use various text features.
• Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas, or steps in a procedural text.

Writing and Communication:

• Write opinion and informative texts.
• Strengthen writing through guidance and support.
• Use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing.
• Research and present the knowledge they have gained through projects and shared information.
• Participate in group discussions with peers.
• Present key ideas either orally or through other media.
• Ask and answer questions from orally presented information in order to clarify information or deepen understanding.