Second Grade – Ms. Hewitt
Third Trimester 2019-2020
ELA-
Comprehension
- Sequence of events
- Story Structure/ understanding characters
- Text and graphic features
- Compare and contrast
- Main idea and details
- Conclusions
- Cause and effect
- Fact and opinion
- Author’s purpose
- Visualize
- Summarize
Genres–
- Realistic fiction
- Biography
- Humorous fiction
- Fantasy
- Narrative nonfiction
- Informational text
- Folktale
- Fairytale
Grammar-
- The verb “be”
- Commas in dates and places
- Commas in a series
- What is an Adjective?
- Irregular action verbs
- Contractions
- What is an adverb?
- Possessive nouns
- Possessive pronouns
- Adjectives and adverbs
Phonics-
- Long I (i, igh, ie, y)
- Long “e”sound for Y
- Changing Y to I
- Syllables
- Compound words
- SCHWA vowel sounds
- Base words with ending ed, es,ing, er, est
- Words with ar
- Words with r controlled vowels ore, or
- Words with ir, er, ur, au, aw, al, o, a,oo, ew,ue, ou
- Rhyme and meaning
- Homophones
- Prefixes (mis, re, un, over,pre)
- Vowel diphthongs ow, ou, oi, oy
Writing-
- Narrative writing
- Descriptive writing
- Informative writing
- Opinion writing
- Persuasive letter
- Summary paragraphs
- Writing longer sentences, expanding our thoughts and ideas
Vocabulary-
- Root words
- Homographs
- Antonyms
- Parts of speech
- Figurative language
- Suffixes ly and ful
- Using a dictionary
- Using a glossary
- Context clues
- Multiple meaning words
- Alphabetical order
Math
Module 6( continued) – Foundations of multiplication and division
- Formation of equal groups
- Arrays and equal groups
- Rectangular arrays as a foundation for multiplication and division
- The meaning of even and odd numbers
Module 7- Problem solving with length, money and data
- Problem solving with categorical data
- Problem solving with coins and bills
- Creating an inch ruler
- Measuring and estimating length using customary and metric units
- Problem solving with customary and metric units
- Displaying measurement data
Module 8- Time, shapes, and fractions as equal parts of shapes
- Attributes of geometric shapes
- Composite shapes and fraction concepts
- Halves, thirds, fourths of circles and rectangles
- Application of fractions to tell time
Science –
- Health – keeping ourselves Healthy
- Extreme weather
- Earth Day – protecting our earth
- Earth science
- Life cycle
Social Studies-
- Immigrants
- Women’s history
- Reading a map
- Geography
- Important landmarks in our country
Religion–
- Reconciliation/ Penance
- Jesus gives us the Eucharist
- God Gives us laws
- We follow God’s laws
Prayers- Hail Mary, Our father, Act of Contrition