2nd Grade

English Language Arts

Reading Wonders (McGraw Hill)

Skills:

• Key details and main ideas

• Character, setting, events, plot

• Ask and answer questions

• Make, confirm, revise predictions

• Plot sequence

• Cause and effect

• Summarize

• Point of view

• Fluency (phrasing, intonation, expression)

• Two-syllable words

• Prefixes/suffixes

• Inflectional endings

• Inferencing

• Spelling of on-level sight word

• Writing a letter

 

Concepts:

• Understanding different types of texts (opinion, narrative, informative/explanatory pieces)

• Understanding genres (fables, fiction/nonfiction, fantasy, informational)

• Comparing/contrasting

• Understanding main purpose of a text (who, what, when, where, why, how)

• Story structure

• Sentence and paragraph structure (writing)

 

Mathematics

McGraw Hill My Math

Skills:

• Addition and subtraction (2-digit, 3-digit, w/regrouping)

• Number patterns

• Place value to 1000

• Money

• Data analysis

• Time

• Customary and metric lengths

• Geometric shapes and equal shares

 

Concepts:

• Operations and algebraic thinking

• Number and operations in base ten

• Measurement and data

• Geometry

 

Science

McGraw Hill Inspire Science

Skills:

• Solids, liquids, gases

• Mixtures

• Temperature changes

• Oceans, freshwater

• Weathering and erosion

• Habitats (forests, grasslands, water habitats, deserts)

 

Concepts:

• Properties of matter

• Changes to matter

• Earth’s surface

• Earth’s surface changes

• Living things in habitats

• Plants and their needs

 

Social Studies

Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

Skills:

• Branches of government

• Community helpers

• Community members

• Reading a map

• Understanding landforms

• Special places in our country

• Biographies of influential Americans (Founding Fathers, Martin Luther King Jr., etc.)

 

Concepts:

• Being a good citizen

• Famous Americans

• Local and federal government

• Needs and wants

• Maps

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