CURRICULUM GUIDE

GRADE 2

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

Language

1. Listening/Speaking Skills

· Contribute to class discussions, follow agreed upon rules and remain on topic of conversation.

· Make oral presentations with eye contact and clear speech.

2. Vocabulary

· Identify/develop/apply priority words, word families, standard English spelling rules, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, similes, contractions, compound words, prefixes, suffixes, nouns, verbs and adjectives, plurals and possessives, root words.

· Practice beginning dictionary skills.

· Introduce pronouns.

Reading & Literature

3. Decoding

· Develop fluency in oral reading.

· Use letter-sound knowledge to decode.

· Use context skills for word comprehension.

4. Comprehension

· Make predictions and inferences, identify cause and effect.

· Retell beginning, middle and end of stories.

· Use story maps to identify characters, setting, problem and solution.

· Identify main ideas and details in fiction and nonfiction.

· Discuss author’s purpose/audience.

5. Grade level texts

· Identify parts of a book: title, author, illustrator, illustrations, setting.

· Use headings, key words, captions, table of contents, glossary and index.

6. Literature Genres

· Explore a variety of literary genres (poetry, prose, fiction, nonfiction, drama and fairy tales).

Composition

7. Writing

· Print all letters legibly and learn how to write lower case letters in cursive.

· Write complete sentences with subject-verb agreement.

· Use correct end punctuation, spacing and capitalization.

· Use LINKS program to write a paragraph including topic sentence, supporting details and a clincher.

· Write stories with a beginning, middle and end.

· Write letters and stories.

8. Edit Writing

· Apply correct capitalization and punctuation.

· Spell identified words correctly

MATHEMATICS

Number Sense and Operations

1. Number Facts

· Use manipulatives to understand numbers.

· Identify even and odd numbers.

· Addition/Subtraction facts to 18.

· Compute up to three digit addition/subtraction problems with or without regrouping.

· Solve one step addition/subtraction word problems.

· Tell/write stories for real life math problems.

· Identify and construct models of fractional parts of a whole (1/2, 1/3, ¼).

2. Place Value

· Name and write numbers to 1,000.

· Identify place value (ones, tens, hundreds and thousands).

· Identify positions first through tenth.

3. Money

· Identify U.S. coins by name and value.

· Count mixed coins and bills up to $5.00.

· Make change up to $1.00.

4. Operations/Skills

· Use correct math terms/symbols. (+, -, =, <, >)

· Practice using a calculator.

· Make and check estimates.

Patterns, Relations and Algebra

5. Patterns

· Identify, create and extend repeating patterns.

· Identify patterns on a hundred’s chart, skip counting.

· Recognize fact families.

· Analyze word problems and number problems to find missing components.

· Write number sentences to represent mathematical relationships.

Geometry

6. Shapes

· Identify, draw, model, and describe two dimensional shapes.

· Identify and explore features of three dimensional shapes.

· Recognize symmetry and congruent shapes.

· Measure perimeter.

Measurement

7. Measurement methods

· Measure length, temperature, weight.

· Tell time to the nearest 5 minutes.

· Use measurement tools: ruler, thermometer, balance, clock

Data Analysis, Statistics, Probability

8. Data

· Collect, sort, organize and compare data using pictorial graphs, numbers, bar graphs and tally marks.

· Explore and describe the concept of chance.

SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY

Inquiry

Scientific Method

· Use equipment with care and correctness.

· Observe, pose questions, make predictions.

· Conduct simple investigations.

· Communicate observations through discussions, drawings, simple graphs and writing.

Physical Science

· Adding/removing heat alters the state of matter

· Matter-solid, liquid, gas

Life Science

· Life cycle of butterfly

· Plants/animals are living things that grow, reproduce, and need food, air, & water

Earth and Space Science

· Rocks, water, & soil make up the earth’s surface

· Fossils

Technology

· Explore technology and engineering concepts as related to topics of study.

· Natural materials vs. synthetic

HISTORY and SOCIAL SCIENCE

Geography

· Continents, major mountain ranges, major rivers, and major oceans

· Features on a map, globes, key, cardinal directions

Economics

· Consumers and producers.

· Goods and services, buyers and sellers

· Barter and currency trading

Civics and Government

· School and class rules related to rights and duties of citizens

· Civic responsibilities of individual within family, school, and community.

· American flag as a symbol

· Pledge of Allegiance

· Use a calendar to identify days, weeks, months, years, seasons.

· Explain information shown on historical timelines.

The purpose of this guide is to identify the major topics, concepts, and skills that are considered essential for each grade level as identified by the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks.