Second Grade FOCUS: Reading
What do we need to know and be able to do?
What question 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?
 How does understanding the relationship between the characters,
setting, plot, and the overall structure of a story or poem enhance
understanding of narrative text?
What words do we need to know to master the objectives?
Compound Words
Character Traits
Solution
Author’s Purpose
Story Elements
Setting (Where & When)
Non-Fiction Text Features
Root/Base Words
August 27th –
November 9th
Characters
Problem
Plot
 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
 Identify character traits from fiction stories and be able
to give support for choosing the traits
 Use non-fiction text features to help us gain better
understanding non-fiction texts
 Identify the main idea and author’s purpose for nonfiction texts
What resources will we use?
Story Map Graphic Organizer
Miss Nelson (series)
How will we master the objectives?
Chrysanthemum
Large and small group collaborative instruction
Swimmy
Centers
Christina Katerina
Nobody’s Mother is In Second Grade
Independent reading
The Giving Tree
Listening to and discussing texts read in class
The Red Balloon
Learning and identifying compound words and base words
Assorted grade level non-fiction texts
Commercial and teacher made centers