Second Grade FOCUS: Reading
Thinking and Academic Success Skills: Intellectual Risk Taking and Flexibility
What questions do we ask ourselves?
Quarter 3
January 23March 22
What do we need to know and be able to do?
 How does understanding sound-symbol correspondence help you
read words?
 Identify and explain the story structure including
important events in selected texts
 How does asking and answering questions in literary and
informational text deepen understanding of the text?
 Use a variety of strategies to attack unknown words in
reading
 What strategies can be used to clarify the meaning of unknown
and multiple-meaning words?
 Ask questions to deepen understanding of texts
 How does understanding the relationship between the characters,
setting, plot, and overall structure of the story or poem enhance
understanding of narrative text?
 What skills and processes are used in effective collaboration?
 How does using new vocabulary help you to communicate clearly?
What words do we need to know to master the objectives?
point-of-view
plot
story structure
key ideas
key details
compare/contrast
opinion
fact
context
multiple meaning words
rhythm
history images
author’s craft
 Identify character traits from fiction stories and be able to
give support for choosing the traits
 Identify and explain characters’ point-of-view and
acknowledge differing points-of-view of characters
 Compare and contrast important points in 2 texts on the
same topic
 Explain the meaning of a word based on its use in a
sentence
What resources will we use?
Story Structure Graphic Organizer
Assorted grade level fiction and non-fiction texts
How will we master the objectives?
 Large and small group collaborative instruction
 Centers
 Independent reading
 Listening to and discussing texts/poems read in class
 Learning and identifying prefixes, suffixes, and base words
 Reader’s theater
Poems
Commercial and teacher made centers
Computer Programs such as “Pebble Go”
Readers’ Theaters Scripts
Historical Fiction