2012-2013 Second Grade Curriculum Map
Dates / English/Language Arts / Math / Social Studies and ScienceTeacher Directed Reading / Word Development / Writing
Week 1
August 19th / Story:
Me on the Map (fiction)
Skill: Setting
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. / Short Vowel Sounds
Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words. / Beginning of Year Writing Assessment
Sentence Writing (complete sentences vs. incomplete sentences), Introduce subject/predicate / Introduction to 2nd grade, Addition Facts
2.OA.2.Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.2By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.
Addition Drills
**Embedded in Problem-Solving and Mental Math
2.OA.1.Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.12.NBT.8.Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100–900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100–900.
2.NBT.9.Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work. 2.NBT.5.Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction. / Social Studies Unit
“Me” on the Map
2-1.5 Identify on a map or globe the location of his or her local community, state, nation, and continent.
Community Mapping
2-1.1 Identify on a map the location of places and geographic features of the local community (e.g., landforms, bodies of water, parks) using the legend and the cardinal directions.
2-1.2 Recognize characteristics of the local region, including its geographic features and natural resources.
Week 2
August 26th / Stories:
Henry and Mudge(fiction)
Gloria Who Might Be My Best Friend (fiction)
Skill: Story Elements
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. / Long Vowels
Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words. / Mini-Lessons (Review from 1st)
-Capitalization
I, names, first word
-Punctuation
period, ?, ! [include when to use each]
Also embed these in next week’s sentence writing lessons. / Addition Facts
2.OA.2.Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.2By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.
Addition Drills / All About Williston
2-1.1 Identify on a map the location of places and geographic features of the local community (e.g., landforms, bodies of water, parks) using the legend and the cardinal directions.
Changes in Williston over time
2-1.4 Summarize changes that have occurred in the local community over time, including changes in the use of land and in the way people earn their living.
Week 3
September 3rd
(4 Days) / Stories:
Schools Around the Word (Nonfiction)
Cold Passage
Skill: Setting (Compare and Contrast settings)
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. / Nouns and Verbs / Sentence Writing:
Include subject, predicate, compound subjects and predicates / Place Value: Understanding the place for a 3-digit number
2.NBT.1.Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. Understand the following as special cases:100 can be thought of as a bundle of ten tens — called a “hundred.”
The numbers 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine hundreds (and 0 tens and 0 ones).
Addition Drills / SS: Exploring Communities
Types of Communities
2-1.3 Recognize the features of urban, suburban, and rural areas of the local region.
Week 4
September 9th / Stories: Abuela (fiction)
Community Helper Books
Skill: Compare/Contrast Characters -Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. / Common and Proper Nouns / Sentence Writing:
Include subject, predicate, compound subjects and predicates / Place Value: Understanding the place for a 3-digit number
2.NBT.1.Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. Understand the following as special cases:100 can be thought of as a bundle of ten tens — called a “hundred.”
The numbers 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine hundreds (and 0 tens and 0 ones).
Addition Drills / Community Helpers
Week 5
September 16th / Stories:
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Fiction)
Thunder cake(fiction)
Skill: Story Elements
Plot
Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. / Singular and Plural Nouns / Sentence Writing Lessons
-making sentences more descriptive
-adjectives / Place Value: Different forms for Numbers: Word, Expanded, Standard Forms and Base-Ten
2.NBT.3.Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
Addition Drills / Science
Weather Unit
Air and Weather Terminology
2-3.1 Explain the effects of moving air as it interacts with objects.
2-3.2 Recall weather terminology (including temperature, wind direction, wind speed, and precipitation as rain, snow, sleet, and hail).
Weather Recording
2-3.5 Use pictorial weather symbols to record observable sky conditions.
2-1.2 Use tools (including thermometers, rain gauges, balances, and measuring cups) safely, accurately, and appropriately when gathering specific data in US customary (English) and metric units of measurement.
Week 6
September 23th / Stories:
Weather (nonfiction)
Skill:
Glossaries/indexes
Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently. / Forming Plurals Rules
**irregular / Writing Sentences and Mini Lessons
-contractions (apostrophes) / Place Value: Comparing Numbers <,>, or =
2.NBT.4.Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.
Addition Drills / Weather Conditions
2-3.4 Carry out procedures to measure and record daily weather conditions (including temperature, precipitation amounts, wind speed as measured on the Beaufort scale, and wind direction as measured with a windsock or wind vane).
Wild Weather
2-3.6 Identify safety precautions that one should take during severe weather conditions
Weather Recording
2-3.5 Use pictorial weather symbols to record observable sky conditions.
2-1.2 Use tools (including thermometers, rain gauges, balances, and measuring cups) safely, accurately, and appropriately when gathering specific data in US customary (English) and metric units of measurement.
Week 7
September 30th / Stories:
Super Storms (nonfiction)
Floods
Blizzards
Tornados
Hurricanes
Skill:
Glossaries/indexes
Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently. / Synonyms / Writing Sentences and Mini Lessons
-commas in dates
-Writing about the seasons / Addition with Regrouping (using base ten blocks)
2.NBT.7.Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.
Addition Drills / Seasons
2-3.3 Illustrate the weather conditions of different seasons.
Week 8
October 7th / Stories: The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash (fiction)
Enormous Turnip (fiction)
Skill: Sequencing/Cause/Effect
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. / Antonyms / Mini-Lessons and Shared Paragraph Writing:
-Writing about the Seasons / Addition with Regrouping (2-digit algorithm)
2.NBT.5.Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Addition Drills / Review Week
Week 9
October 14th / Stories: Officer Buckle and Gloria (fiction)
Skill: Main Idea
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe. / Compound Words
**use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words.
(ex. Birdhouse, lighthouse, housefly) / Shared Paragraph Writing and Mini-Lessons: Choose from following based on class needs
-organization
-content and development
-elaboration
-main idea/details / Addition with Regrouping (3; 2-digit numbers algorithm)
2.NBT.6.Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.
Addition Drills / Government Unit
What is Government?
2-2.1 Identify the basic functions of government, including making and enforcing laws, protecting citizens, and collecting taxes.
Week 10
October 21st / Stories: Happy Haunting, Amelia Bedelia (fiction)
Fox and the Falling Leaves (fiction)
Skill: Setting, Dialogue
Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action. / Multiple Meaning Word / Writing a Paragraph using graphic organizer / Addition with Regrouping (4; 2-digit numbers algorithm)
2.NBT.6.Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.
Addition Drills / Types of Laws
2-2.2 Recognize different types of laws and those people who have the power and authority to enforce them.
Week 11
October 28th (4 days) / Stories: Cold Passage (nonfiction)
Scarecrow, Bats, Fall Fun and Pumpkin Hunt Poems
Skill: nonfiction, main idea, story elements
Common Core Standard: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Common Core Standard: Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
Common Core Standard: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
Common Core Standard: Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. / Review Skills
ABC Order
Vowels
Nouns
Make-a-Word / Review and Writing Paragraphs
(Halloween) / Number Patterns and Skip Counting (starting with any number be able to skip count and find the pattern.)
2.NBT.2.Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
Subtraction Drills / Government Leaders
2-2.4 Explain the role of elected leaders, including mayor, governor, and president.
2-2.3 Identify the roles of leaders and officials in government, including law enforcement and public safety officials.
Week 12 (4 days)
November 4th / Stories: My Teacher for President and Duck for President
Skill: Setting/Story Elements
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. / Silent E / Writing Directions and Instructions
“How to Cook a Turkey” for the newspaper. / Money
2.MD.8.Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have?
Subtraction Drills / Continue with Government
2-2.4 Explain the role of elected leaders, including mayor, governor, and president.
2-2.3 Identify the roles of leaders and officials in government, including law enforcement and public safety officials.
Government Unit Review/Test
Week 13
November 11th / Stories: Squanto
Biography (nonfiction)
Readers’ Theater (fiction)
Skill: Problem/Solution
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. / Phonetic Sounds:
-review previous sounds
-ch
-ea as long a and other sounds / Opinion Pieces
**Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book, state an opinion, supply reasons to support their opinion using linking words (because and also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement. / Money
2.MD.8.Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have?
Subtraction Drills / Social Studies
Native Americans
2-4.3 Recognize the cultural contributions of Native American tribal groups, African Americans, and immigrant groups.
2-4.4 Recall stories and songs that reflect the cultural history of various regions in the United States, including stories of regional folk figures, Native American legends, and African American folktales.
Week 14
November 18th (2 days) / Story: Pumpkin Fiesta (fiction)
Skill: Compare/
Contrasting and Sequencing
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. / Seasonal / Seasonal / Money Review or Seasonal / Native Americans
2-4.3 Recognize the cultural contributions of Native American tribal groups, African Americans, and immigrant groups.
2-4.4 Recall stories and songs that reflect the cultural history of various regions in the United States, including stories of regional folk figures, Native American legends, and African American folktales.
Week 15
November 25th / Stories: The Goat in the Rug (fiction)
Many Nations (nonfiction)
Skill: Skill: Compare/
Contrasting and Sequencing
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. / ph /f/
ending blends / Descriptive Writing Mini-Lessons (teach how to write descriptively)
Share Writing / Measurement
2.MD.1.Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.
2.MD.2.Measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two measurements; describe how the two measurements relate to the size of the unit chosen.