SECOND GRADE CURRICULUM

Language Arts

Reading/Literature

• Strategies used by good readers; phonics, sound analysis, structural analysis, context clues, etc.
• Comprehension strategies: rereading, predicting, sequencing, cause/effect, author purpose, paraphrasing, summarizing
• Story elements: topic, main idea, character, plot, setting, problem, solution
• Types of literature: fantasy, mystery, drama, fable, biography, poetry
• Strategies for reading informational text: pictures, captions, titles, table of contents
  

Language

• Weekly spelling tests
• Grade appropriate mechanics: end punctuation, quotation marks, commas, apostrophes, proper capitalization
• Grade appropriate grammar and sentence structure: complete sentences, statements, questions, exclamations, subject/verb agreement, past and present tenses
• Vocabulary; content vocabulary, synonyms, antonyms
• Reference skills: alphabetical order, multiple meanings, definitions, glossary
• Language patterns: dialect, cultural/influences on English, contexts and purposes

Writing

• Prewriting and drafting strategies, brain-storming, listing, and webs
  
• Revising and editing strategies: purpose focus, adding ideas
  
• Proofreading and publishing strategies; conventional and phonetic spelling, capitals, periods, question marks, apostrophes, commas, indenting

Writer’s Workshop

• Types of writing: personal story, descriptive paragraph, informative paragraph, friendly letter, how-to-paragraph, poems, simple fantasy, research project
• Research skills: primary dictionary and reference books
  Penmanship
  
• Legible printing using upper and lower case letters without a model
  

Speaking and Listening

• Follows four-step and generates three-step directions
• Takes turns, raises hand, focuses on speaker, avoids interrupting, asks appropriate questions
• Expressing ideas orally: clarity, volume, eye contact, sequencing of thoughts, standard English, correct grammar, personal voice
• Types of speaking opportunities: poems, show and tell/sharing, role-playing, Readers Theater, presentation of personal writing, informal interviewing, choral reading
• Cooperative learning

Social Studies

Time Travelers 1200 - 1600 C.E.

• Study of time period 1200-1600 AD
• Compare and contrast ancient cultures with modern

Civic

• Rules and laws
• Choice and consequences
• Responsibility of neighbors
• Reciting the “Pledge of Allegiance”Fact/opinion
• Figures of authority
• Core Democratic Values
• Majority rule
• Citizenship
  

Geography

• Maps and globes/symbol keys
• Compass directions
• Urban/rural/suburban
• Country/state/city
• Land forms
• Lakes, rivers and mountains
• Place: human and physical characteristics

Economics

• Goods and services
• Consumer/producer
• Employment
• Natural resources
• Trade/barter
• Currency

Science

• Body systems
• Life cycle of inisects

Earth Science

• Soils

Physical Science

• Changes in matter
• Force and motion
• Sound

Health

• Food Pyramid and Nutrition
  

Math

• Numbers, Numeration, and Order
• Counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s to 1000
• Counting by 10’s from any given two digit number
• Four digit numbers
• Expanded notation of a four digit number
• Pictorial representation of a fraction
• Comparison of two whole numbers through four digits using >, < and =

Operations, Relations, and Number Systems

• Addition and subtraction facts to 18
• Sum of multiple addends
• Concrete representation of multiplication and division problems

Measurement and Reference Frames

• Counting and exchanging money
• Weight
• Volume
• Metric and customary linear measurement
• Calendars
• Telling time to five-minute intervals
• Thermometers

Geometry and Spatial Relations

• Symmetry
• Concept of perimeter and area
• Two and three dimensional shapes
• Polygons