Second Grade Reading Street

Unit 1: Exploring Space

Week 2
Selection Words:
1. astronaut - person who goes into space
2. shuttle - vehicle that carries astronauts into
space
3. experiment - test to find out something
4. telescope - instrument that makes far away
things appear close
5. gravity - natural force that makes everything
on Earth move toward it
Amazing Words:
1. ascend - go up
2. descend - go down
3. orbit - the path around something in space
4. universe - Earth, sun, moon, planets, and stars
5. enormous - very big or huge
6. journey - a long trip
7. launch - get something going
8. meteorite - piece of stone from space that hits
something



Grammar: Subjects
Writing Trait: Word Choice and Expository non-
fiction
High Frequency Words:
1. live
2. work
3. woman
4. machines
5. move
6. everywhere
7. world
Phonics:
Long vowels CVCE

Comprehension:
Skill: Main idea &
details
Strategy: Text
structure
Spelling Words:
1. rice
2. page
3. nose
4. space
5. size
6. fine
7. mice
8. late
9. huge
10. blaze
11. race
12. vote
13. cube
14. tune
15. escape
Reading Genre

Exploring Space is an
Expository text. It tells facts
about a topic.