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2nd Grade

These are some of the topics and units of study that we will be visiting and exploring this year with our students. Please know that we adjust our pacing based on our students’ needs and level of understanding.

Reading Workshop Units of Study:

 

  • Second Grade Reading Growth Spurts
  • Becoming Experts – Reading Nonfiction
  • Accelerating Readers Growth in Longer Fiction Books 
  • Bigger Books Mean Amping Up Reading Power
  • Series Book Clubs
  • Nonfiction Cover to Cover

Writing Workshop Units of Study:

 

  • Small Moments – Narrative Writing
  • How to Guide on Nonfiction Writing
  • Scenes to Series- Realistic Fiction Writing
  • Poetry
  • Writing About Reading – Opinion Writing
  • Nonfiction Writing Projects

Math:

  • Number Sense
  • Skip Counting
  • Place Value
  • Problem Solving
  • Explaining Mathematical Thinking
  • Adding and subtracting up to Three Digits
  • Measurement 
  • Time
  • Money
  • Geometry

Science:

  • The Nature of Matter – Physical Science
  • The Dynamic Earth – Earth Science
  • The Diversity of Life – Life Science
  • Plants: Structure and Function – Life Science

Social Studies:

  • Communities & Cultural Development
  • (Urban, rural, and suburban, similarities and differences among cultures)
  • Geography & Environment (Map skills, how humans affect the environments around them)
  • Civics (Being a good citizen, voting and elections, laws and rules)

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