2nd Grade Reading and Language Arts

MONTH CONTENT/THEME CORE GOALS/SKILLS ASSESSMENT SUGGESTED RESOURCES

1st Trimester Reading • Phonological Awareness • Practice Book • Harcourt materials
Segment words into syllables • Teacher created response activities • Novels
Blend syllables into words • Comprehension Tests • Student Selected Books
Segment words into sounds • Teacher Created Assessments • Read Alouds
Blend sounds into words • Class Discussion • Word walls
• Phonics (sound-symbol correspondence) • Fry words • Sounds in Action, phonological awareness
Identify consonant (initial, medial, final) and • DIBELS resource
short vowel sounds
Identify diagraphs, blends (initial and final),
and clusters (initial)
Blend sounds into words
• Comprehension
Use comprehension strategies: predicting,
inferring, visualizing, and making connections
Fiction - identify story elements
Nonfiction – sequence events
• Identify Fry words (1-134)
• Read grade level text fluently (44 wpm)

See district writing curriculum map for your grade

Writing level

• Four kinds of sentences

Grammar • ABC order to second letter • Teacher Created Assessments • Harcourt
• Nouns • Harcourt Assessments • Writing journals
• Writing Dates • Harcourt Practice Book Grammar Page
• Commas between city and state
• Abbreviations for days of week
• Capitalizing: special names, titles, days of
week, months of year, holidays, and special
names for places
Spelling
• Use common spelling patterns
• Spell common words correctly • Spelling Activities • Project Read
• Project Read • Making Words
• Spelling Tests • Word Journeys
Handwriting • Use proper pencil grip and posture
• Use Handwriting Without Tears letter
formation
• Teacher Observation • Handwriting Without Tears materials
• Student Writing
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MONTH CONTENT/THEME CORE GOALS/SKILLS ASSESSMENT SUGGESTED RESOURCES

2nd Trimester Reading • Phonological Awareness • Practice Book • Harcourt materials
Manipulate (segment, isolate, delete, • Teacher created response activities • Novels
substitute, and blend) phonemes of 1 or more • Comprehension Tests • Student Selected Books
syllable words • Teacher Created Assessments • Read Alouds
• Phonics (sound-symbol correspondence) • Class Discussion • Word walls
Identify consonant (initial, medial, final) and • Fry list
short vowel sounds • DIBELS
Identify diagraphs, blends (initial and final),
and clusters (initial)
Common endings
R-Controlled vowels
Open syllables
Magic final e
Vowel teams
Blend sounds into words
• Comprehension
Use comprehension strategies: predicting,
inferring, visualizing, and making
connections, questioning
Fiction - identify story elements with graphic
organizers
Nonfiction – sequence events with graphic
organizers
• Identify Fry words (1-166)
• Read grade level text fluently (68 wpm)

Writing See district writing curriculum map for your grade • Harcourt
level • Writing journals

Grammar • Table of Contents, Index and Glossary • Teacher Created Assessments

• Key Words and Guide Words • Harcourt Assessments
• Dictionary: Guide Words and Multiple • Harcourt Practice Book Grammar Page
Meanings
• Synonyms / Antonyms
• Thank You Letters and Envelopes
• Plurals: -s, -es, y to i, f to v, and irregular
plurals
• Action Verbs
Spelling
• Use common spelling patterns • Spelling Activities • Project Read
• Spell common words correctly • Project Read • Making Words
• Spelling Tests • Word Journeys
Handwriting
• Use proper pencil grip and posture
• Use Handwriting Without Tears letter • Teacher Observation • Handwriting Without Tears materials
formation • Student Writing
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MONTH CONTENT/THEME CORE GOALS/SKILLS ASSESSMENT SUGGESTED RESOURCES

3rd Trimester Reading • Phonological Awareness • Practice Book • Harcourt materials
Manipulate (segment, isolate, delete, • Teacher created response activities • Novels
substitute, and blend) phonemes of 1 or more • Comprehension Tests • Student Selected Books
syllable words • Teacher Created Assessments • Read Alouds
• Phonics (sound-symbol correspondence) • Class Discussion • Word walls
Identify consonant (initial, medial, final) and • Fry words
short vowel sounds • DIBELS
Identify diagraphs, blends (initial and final),
and clusters (initial)
Common endings
R-Controlled vowels
Open syllables
Magic final e
Vowel teams
Vowel Diphthongs
Syllabication
Blend sounds into words
• Comprehension
Use comprehension strategies: predicting,
inferring, visualizing, and making
connections, questioning, summarizing
Fiction - identify story elements with graphic
organizers using complete sentences
Nonfiction – sequence events with graphic
organizers using complete sentences
• Identify Fry words (1-200)
• Read grade level text fluently (90 wpm)

Writing See district writing curriculum map for your grade

level
Grammar • Contractions
• Compound Words • Teacher Created Assessments • Harcourt
• Homophones • Harcourt Assessments • Writing Journals
• Prefixes: Un / Re • Harcourt Practice Book Grammar Page
• Suffixes: -ful, -ly, -less
• Adjectives
• Commas in a Series
• Possessives

Spelling
• Use common spelling patterns
• • Project Read
• Spell common words correctly Spelling Activities
• Project Read • Making Words
Handwriting
• Use proper pencil grip and posture • Spelling Tests • Word Journeys
• Use Handwriting Without Tears letter
formation • Teacher Observation • Handwriting Without Tears materials
Research • Student Writing
• Paraphrasing
• Citing Resources • Teacher Created Research Projects • Information Literacy Curriculum
• Organizing and Presenting Research in a • Teacher Created Assessments
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Variety of Forms