Second Grade FOCUS: Reading
Thinking and Academic Success Skills: Analysis and Metacognition
What questions do we ask ourselves?
 How does understanding sound-symbol correspondence help you
read words?
 How does asking and answering questions in literary and
informational text deepen understanding of the text?
Quarter 2
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What do we need to know and be able to do?
 Identify and explain the story elements in selected texts
 Use a variety of strategies to attack unknown words in
reading
 Ask questions to deepen understanding of texts
 How does understanding the central message or main topic of
literary and informational text clarify what the author is saying?
 Identify character traits from fiction stories and be able
to give support for choosing the traits
 What strategies can be sued to clarify the meaning of unknown
and multiple-meaning words?
 Use non-fiction text features to help us gain better
understanding non-fiction texts
What words do we need to know to master the objectives?
Fables
Folk Tales
Moral
Compare/Contrast
Personification
Culture
Main Idea
Point-of-view
Prefix
Base Word
Character Traits
Adjective
Story Elements
Non-Fiction Text Features
 Identify the main idea and author’s purpose for nonfiction texts
What resources will we use?
Story Map Graphic Organizer
Assorted grade level non-fiction texts
How will we master the objectives?
Large and small group collaborative instruction
Commercial and teacher made centers
Computer Programs such as “Pebble Go”
Various versions of folktales that
Centers
Independent reading
Listening to and discussing texts read in class
Learning and identifying prefixes, suffixes, and base words
show different cultures to the students
Video versions of some folktales