Second Grade FOCUS: Writing
Thinking and Academic Success Skills: Intellectual Risk Taking and Flexible Thinking
Quarter 3
January 23March 22
What question do we ask ourselves?
 What are the components for writing informative/expository
text?
 How does the writing process help you improve your writing?
What do we need to know and be able to do?
 Participate in peer conferences
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Write opinion pieces in which we introduce the topic or
book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply
reasons that support the opinion, use linking words
(e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and
reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.
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Revise writing with expanded or rearranged sentence
structure

Summarize the important information after reading a
non-fiction text
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Use correct capitalization and punctuation in sentences
 How does gathering information from more than one source
increase your understanding of a topic?
 How do you use standard English conventions to make your
communication clear?
 What are the components for writing opinion pieces
What words do we need to know to master the objectives?
plurals
collective nouns
contractions
apostrophe
opinion
support
adjectives
comma
fact
convince
past tense
What resources will we use?
Individualized spelling lists
How will we master the objectives?
Making Words
Use of formal and informal Writing Workshop
Quick Word Books
Compose opinion pieces on teacher and self-selected topics
Journals
Practice correcting passages for correct capitalization and
punctuation
Writing Workshop materials
Explain
Computers
Collaborate with classmates to compare and contrast writing styles
Various literature used for modeling the topics
Peer Conference Guide sheets