Second Grade Curriculum at a Glance
Below you will find the major concepts that are taught in 2nd Grade.
LANGUAGE ARTS: Journeys Reading Program
Phonics and Word Recognition :
- Use single consonants, consonant blends (double and triple), and all consonant digraphs in initial, medial, and final positions to decode words
- Use short and long vowels, vowel digraphs and r controlled vowels to decode words
- Divide words into syllables in order to decode them and spell them
- Recognize and use prefixes, suffixes, and root words
- Read common and irregular high frequency words in text
- Reading with the appropriate rate, expression, and accuracy
- Use cues and punctuation to read with appropriate pace and intonation
- Use pauses and emphasis that signal the meaning of text
Vocabulary:
- Identify synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and multiple-meaning words
- Determine the meaning of words using context clues
- Talk about what words mean in terms of function, features and category
- Use word parts(prefix/suffix) to determine meaning
Comprehension:
- Begin to develop strategies for processing text and retaining information (predicting, questioning, clarifying, visualizing, rereading, and summarizing)
- Compare and contrast texts and information
- Recognize and infer cause and effect relationships
- Determine the main idea and supporting detail
- Retell narratives and summarize informational text
- Follow multi-step written directions
- Identify story elements of character, setting, events, problem, and solution
- Make text-to-self connections and text-to-text connections
Writing
- Develop skills in using the writing process (pre-writing, rough draft, revise, edit, and publish)
- Produce the following writing pieces: Personal Narrative, Informational, and Opinion
- Use commas correctly when writing letters, dates, locations, addresses, and items in a series
- Use a capital letter for the beginning of a sentence, months, and days of the week and the pronoun “I”
- Recognize that quotation marks surround actual words someone says
- Use common contractions correctly
- Identify types, structures, and parts of sentences
- Identify and use nouns, verbs, and verb tenses
MATH: GO Math Program
MATH: GO Math Program
At the end of second grade, your child is expected to be secure in the following skills:
- Create and solve addition and subtraction number stories
- Recall addition and subtraction facts through 18
- Know and express the values of digits in 2, 3, and 4 digit numbers
- Make change from $1.00
- Use a calculator to compute money amounts
- Draw and name fractional parts of wholes
- Tell and show time at 5 min. intervals
- Measure to the nearest inch and centimeter
- Identify and classify 2 dimensional shapes
- Identify the rule for a number sequence
- Skip count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
- Find 2 step rules
- Plot and compare data on a bar graph
SCIENCE:
The Earth
Reason for the Seasons
- Natural resources, composting/recycling
- What are natural resources? Why are they important?
- What can we do to help conserve our natural resources?
- Classifications – mammals, arthropods, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles
- How are animals classified?
- What are their characteristics?
- Bats
- Facts, echolocation, types, importance, IPM
- What makes bats special?
- What is a bat’s role in food chains and IPM?
- Weather words, tools, Doppler radar, clouds, natural disasters
- What are the earth’s weather systems?
- What tools do meteorologists use to study weather?
Reason for the Seasons
- Earth, Sun, Moon, Seasons
- What is the relationship between the earth, sun and moon?
- Why do we have seasons?
- Identifying adaptations, migration, hibernation, extinction, endangered, threatened species
- Why do animals have adaptations?
- What is the difference between extinct, endangered and threatened and why are they important?Insects
- Food chains, bees, IPM
- What are the roles of producers, consumers and decomposers in a food chain?
- Why are bees important to an ecosystem?
- What is Integrated Pest Management and why is it important?
- seeds, plants, flowers, trees
- Identify parts of seeds, plants, flowers and trees.
- Why are trees important?
SOCIAL STUDIES:
- Unit 1: Democracy and Government
- Unit 2: Historical Thinking
- Unit 3: Geography
- Unit 4: Culture
- Unit 5: Economy