Second Grade
Curriculum
Second Grade Language Arts
Second grade students use
the listening, speaking, and reading
foundational skills they have developed to
extend their understanding of written
language and their skills in using written
language. They need to read a wider variety
of texts that require strategies and skills
with more complex vocabulary and ideas.
These students need to be able to write
sentences to express multiple ideas about a
topic. Second grade students will:
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Use acquired concepts and metacognitive
skills to read and write more
independently.
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Comprehend and respond to texts using
multiple skills and strategies.
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Extend vocabulary skills to use oral and
written communication effectively.
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Use reading and listening, speaking and
writing, and media and technology
resources to accomplish a purpose.
The learner will develop and apply
enabling strategies and skills to read and
write.
The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to
comprehend text that is read, heard, and
viewed.
The learner will make connections
through the use of oral language, written
language, and media and technology.
The learner will apply strategies and
skills to create oral, written, and visual
texts.
The learner will apply
grammar and language conventions to
communicate effectively.
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Second
Grade Mathematics
Major Concepts:
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Place value
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Addition of multi-digit numbers
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Length, capacity, and weight
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Time and money
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Patterns
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Organization of data
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Simple probability experiments
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Students will create and solve relevant
and authentic problems using appropriate
technology and applying these concepts
as well as those developed in previous
years.
Computational Skills to
Maintain:
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Read, write and count using whole
numbers
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Count using one-to-one correspondence
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Addition and subtraction facts
The learner will read, write, and model
numbers through 1000, and compute with
numbers less than 1000.
The learner
will recognize, understand, and use basic
geometric properties, and standard units of
metric and customary measurement.
The learner will demonstrate an
understanding of classification, patterning,
and seriation.
The learner will demonstrate an
understanding of data collection, display,
and interpretation.
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Second
Grade Science
Change
The focus for second grade
center on students analyzing collected data
over a period of time to make predictions
and understand change. Students are to look
at heat as a way of changing properties of
objects and motion as being related to
position and time. The strands provide a
context for teaching the content goals.
Students will actively be involved in:
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Conducting long-term investigations to
define changes.
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Using tools to collect data.
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Looking at change in properties.
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The learner will build an understanding
of plant and animal life cycles.
The learner will build an understanding
of the changes in weather.
The
learner will build an understanding of
changes in properties.
The learner will build an
understanding of the concepts of sound.
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Second
Grade: Regional Studies
The second grade study
emphasizes community life in a variety of
contexts with a major focus on geography.
Students examine how communities may be
linked to form larger political units, and
how there are cultural, geographic, and
economic ties. Through their study of
various patterns of community living, the
students begin to understand that people's
activities are influenced not only by their
geographic location, but also by how they
use the earth's materials, the physical
environment, and human traditions. By
looking at communities from a geographic
perspective, students become aware of some
of the cultural, political, geographic, and
economic factors that help bind communities
together through both time and space.
The learner will identify
and exhibit qualities of responsible
citizenship in the classroom, school, and
other social environments.
The learner will evaluate
relationships between people and their
governments.
The learner will analyze how
individuals, families, and communities are
alike and different.
The learner will exhibit an
understanding of change in communities over
time.
The learner will understand the
relationship between people and geography in
various communities.
The learner will analyze how people
depend on the physical environment and use
natural resources to meet basic needs.
The learner will apply basic economic
concepts and evaluate the use of economic
resources within communities.
The learner will recognize how
technology is used at home, school, and in
the community.
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