DATE / STORY
Theme / PHONICS
(KEYS) / SIGHT WORDS / VOCABULARY
WORDS / COMPREHENSION
SKILLS
STUDY SKILLS / GRAMMAR / SPELLING
9/12 – 9/16 /

Book 1-Unit 1

Ann’s First Day

friends / short vowel
sounds
a e i o u / back first live name water / hurry shy lucky crawls carrots homework / make predictions,
inflectional endings-(s/es)
parts of a book / Complete sentences: statements
questions / still best bat mom just desk clock hut fit plant
9/19-9/23 / Henry and Mudge, the First Book
Pets
Animal classification / long vowel
sounds with silent e
a i o u / stop only open sound take / parents worry weighed hundred searched different / story elements: plot/
character
use contents page
inflectional end ed/ing / commands: exclamations / same fine take alone used mine joke late broke bike
9/26 – 9/30 /

Luka’s Quilt

Fall
J. Appleseed / ee ie ea
ai ay / know most thing very love / grandmother idea garden remember serious answered / context clues
read a glossary
characters and setting / subjects,
capitals and commas in a letter / stay plain sea green keep chief mail dream clay mean
10/3-10/7
4 days / The Round-up at Rio Ranch
Cider/
Columbus / i y igh
o oa oe ow / write our number people little / broken cattle carefully fence safety gently / make predictions
context clues
use an index / predicates
commas in dates and city, state / toe slow old mine by follow dry load row sigh
10/11 -10/14
4 days / Time For Kids: Welcome to a New Museum
Fire safety / review / read place before work sentence / artist body hour
life visit famous / using the internet / sentence combining,
quotation marks / sky, bright, kind, find, sight, yellow, toast, throw, most, show
10/17-10/21
(4 days) /

Unit 1 test

Hibernation / review / think push great walk through / reading social studies / review / they, were, said, there, their, which, about, would, could, girl
10/24-
10/28 /

Book 1-Unit 2

Lemonade for Sale
Halloween / oo ue ew / much line pull right easy / melted poured squeezed wrong empty announced / problem and solution
prefix: re
read a graph / nouns,
using commas / true too new room blew tool clue boot few school
10/31-11/4 / A Letter to Amy
Native Americans / ow ou
oi oy
ew / mean any follow came nice / candles corner glanced repeated special wild / make inferences
compound words
read a diagram / irregular plural nouns
letter writing / down out point joy house coin now loud brown cowboy
11/7-11/10
4 days / The Best Friends Club
Native Americans / are
or ore
ear / show also around today small / allowed leaned president promise rules whispered / problem and solution
prefix: un
use a diagram / Proper nouns, abbreviations
Plural nouns: add -es / porch care dear more short bare tore year corn shore
11/14-11/18;
11/21-11/22 / Jamaica Tag-Along
Thanksgiving / ar ir ur er / put away soon
does another / building busy edge form giant repair /

make inferences

compound words

read a diagram

/

plural nouns-

y to i and add –es
possessive nouns (apostrophes) /

arm birthday her fur turned curl farm dirt herd, burnt

11/28 – 12/2 / Time For Kids:
Sharks

Unit 2 test

Families

/ review
Silent letters:
w, k / large must even such start / afraid chew danger lesson trouble understand / use a bar graph
reading directions (puppets) / plurals vs. possessives / ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, hundred
12/5 – 12/9 /

Book 1-Unit 3

Arthur Writes a Story
Marc Brown
cookies / silent letters
l b g gh / turn need never under stand / decide important planet float library proud / fantasy and reality
context clues
use a dictionary / action verbs
abbreviations / high half wrote thumb lamb knee knot comb wrong chalk
12/12-12/16 / Cookies/holiday
Jan Brett / le en / different home move try school / cause and effect / commas in a series / family, card, surprise, party, decorate, present, gift,winter, holiday, cookie
12/19-12/23 / Tomie dePaola
New Year’s Eve? / picture again change spell own
1/3/06 – 1/6
(4 days) /

Best Wishes, Ed

The Arctic / er / air point letter father keep / couple climbed drifted half message notice / context clues
read an encyclopedia
synonyms / present-tense verbs / other over corner driver never farmer father another brother together
1/9-1/13 / The Pony Express
Sending messages / short e: ea / mother answer found study jump / arrive early finish record rush success / fantasy and reality
use a telephone directory / past-tense verbs (-ed),
letter writing / leather bread weather spread breakfast ready meant feather instead meadow
1/17-1/20
4 days / Nine-In-One, GRR! GRR!
Black History/
Biographies / e ey y
ea en le / learn should world high near / earth lonely wonderful forget mountain memory / cause and effect
use a dictionary / verb – have,
capital letters in book titles / many money every
happy tiny baby key funny party lady
1/23 – 1/27 / Time for Kids: Change for the Quarter
bears / review / add food below between own / collect honors
join order
pocket worth / choose a reference source
synonyms / sentence combining
proper nouns / square circle triangle rectangle oval half part third whole fourth
1/30-2/3 /

Unit 3 test

Sound / review / light plant city next begin / Reading media / review / eye ear mouth head hair nose hear noise voice sight
2/6- 2/10 /

Book 2 - Unit 1

Charlie Anderson
Human Body / oo / earth thought head story white / upstairs clothes middle roof offered chocolate / draw conclusions antonyms
use a map / linking verbs,
proper nouns / wood book stood foot wool brook hood hook shook cook
2/13-2/17 /

Fernando’s Gift

Presidents
WashingtonDC / soft c and g / along might close seem something / village noisy diving explained soil harm / compare and contrast antonyms
read a chart / helping verbs,
quotation marks / dance age rice mice charge race space cage large page
2/27 – 3/3 / The Best Vacation Ever
3/2- Dr. Seuss
Colonial Life / all alk aw au / hard example life always those / brave practice museum guess vacation wonder / draw conclusions
inflectional endings (er, est)
read a map / irregular verbs
go/went, do/did, say/said, see/saw / paw caught because talk straw hawk salt lawn taught fault
3/6 – 3/10 / Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats
Nocturnal Animals / ph tch / both paper group often important / explore fact disturb nature object several / compare and contrast
inflectional endings
read a map / irregular verbs
give/gave, sing/sang, come/came, run/ran, / phone catch each patch sandwich match graph pitch beach touch
3/13 – 3/17 / Time For Kids:
Going Batty for Bats
Fables /

review

/ until side feet mile / breath cover crops darkness scary study / use a chart / contractions / Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, month, week, calendar
3/13-3/18 /

Unit 1 test

St. Patrick’s Day
Fables / review / night sea took fish grow / reading science texts / Review / Months (12)
3/20-3/24 /

Book 2 - Unit 2

BremenTown Musicians
Matter-sugaring
Helen Keller /

are

or ore

ear

/ carry once hear late / daughter music scare third voice whistle / summarize
suffixes (-ful, -ly)
follow directions / Pronouns (I, he, she, it, you, we, you, they)
quotation marks / scare, storm, nearly, short, share, morning, careful, clearly, fearful, parent
3/27-3/31 / Our Soccer League
Maps / oo ue ew / miss without enough idea / coaches field score stretches throws touch / sequence of events
context clues
read a newsletter / I / me,
we / us / United States, north, America, globe, west, south, East Greenbush, New York
*your street name
4/3-4/7 / The Wednesday Surprise
Storms
Landforms / er le en / face watch far real almost / chance favorite heavy nervous office wrapped / summarize
suffixes(ly, ful)
use a calendar / Possessive pronouns,
Proper nouns / price, buy, nickel, dollar, cost, exact, cent, dime, quarter, penny
4/10-4/13
(4 days
vac?) / Fossils Tell of Long Ago

Dinosaurs

/ ow ou
oi oy / let above talk list song / buried creatures fossils fresh layers millions / sequence of events
context clues
interpret signs / pronoun-verb agreement / towel boiling flower mouse ground crowd couch enjoy noise choice
4/24-4/28 / Time For Kids:
Are You a Fossil Fan?
Solar System / review / leave family body color sun / hunt magazine glue tooth change / read an advertisement / Contractions / second third fourth fifth eighth planet ninth museum star
solar system
5/1-5/5 /

Unit 2 test

Solar System / review / question knew sad hot save / research: checking facts / Review / hour minute clock evening midnight afternoon finish begin time watch
5/8-5/12 /

Book 2 - Unit 3

Officer Buckle and Gloria
Community Helpers / ph tch ch / almost caught listen quick drink / accident audience cheered slips station wipe / form generalizations
multiple-meaning words
library search by subject / adjectives,
using commas / nurse doctor firefighter mailman dentist station library teacher store office
5/15-5/19 / Tomas and the Library Lady
Community Helpers / ee ie ea
i y igh / across better black true hurt / borrow desert evenings midnight package shoulder / main idea
multiple-meaning words
read a library floor plan / articles
a and an / shift chair check shoe children shared shining shape chase cheek
5/22-5/26
(26-vac?) /

Princess Pooh

Patriotic Holidays / ai ay
oa oe ow / friend low pretty quiet few / cousins crowded golden princess restaurant world / form generalizations
(most, some, usually, always, often never most everyone)
figurative language- similes
use an encyclopedia / comparative adjectives (er/est),
apostrophe / with push both rush bath mouth brush teeth dash fish
5/30-6/2
4 days
30? vac / Swimmy
Life Cycles
Mealworms
Frogs / Soft
c and g / free just bird street thank / escaped fierce hidden machine swaying swift / main idea
library search by author (call numbers)
figurative language - idioms / adverbs,
using capital letters / thirsty wheel throw whale whimper thought whirl whisper through thick
6/5 - 6/9
6/12-6/16 / Time For Kids:
The World’s Plants Are in Danger
Oceans
Unit 3 test
Oceans / review
review / every phone while won trip / cleared disappear forever problem save warns / choose a reference source
reading online resources,
e-mail / synonyms and antonyms
review / scale ruler inch yard pound gallon degree quart meter ounce
ocean dolphin shark coral waves beach octopus underwater fishing swimming

9/21/05 E. Beams, Grade 2 Genet