Second Grade FOCUS: Writing
Thinking and Academic Success Skills: Analysis and Metacognition
What question do we ask ourselves?
 What are the components for writing informative/expository
text?
Quarter 2
November 11January 22
What do we need to know and be able to do?
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Participate in peer conferences
 How does the writing process help you improve your writing?
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 How does gathering information from more than one source
increase your understanding of a topic?
Organize a personal narrative with a beginning, middle,
and end
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 How do you use standard English conventions to make your
communication clear?
Revise writing with expanded or rearranged sentence
structure
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Elaborate our own or given sentences
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Summarize the important information after reading a
non-fiction text
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Use correct capitalization and punctuation in sentences
What words do we need to know to master the objectives?
Personal Narrative
Spelling Patterns
Sentences
Punctuation
Revise
Elaborate
Adjectives
Word Families
Phrase
Capitalization
Draft
Details
What resources will we use?
Individualized spelling lists
Making Words
How will we master the objectives?
Use of formal and informal Writing Workshop
Identify the beginning, middle, and end of written narratives
Practice correcting passages for correct capitalization and
punctuation
Elaborating on a given topic or self-selected
Collaborate with classmates to compare and contrast writing styles
Quick Word Books
Journals
Writing Workshop materials
Peer Conference Guide sheets
Computers
Various literature used for modeling the topics