2nd Grade Goals
Reading Goals
Term 2 (January-March)
Unit 4: Meeting Characters and Learning Lessons
- Students will keep track of their characters by thinking about where and when the story takes place
- Students will learn all about their main character
- Students will learn about the secondary characters
- Students will notice how the characters’ feelings change over time
- Students will make predictions in their books
- Students will retell their books/stories
- Students will identify the problems in the book and how the problems got resolved
- Students will keep life lessons in mind
- Students will share opinions about the books
Unit 5: Reading Poetry
- Students will learn about poetry, and compare how it’s different from other genres
- Students will learn about line breaks and white space
- Students will notice that poems have stanzas
- Students will read poems and have a feeling from how the poem was written
- Students will notice how poets use descriptive words (figurative language) in their poems
- Students will notice how some poems have repetitions
- Students will notice that some poems have patterns and rhyming words
- Students will learn how poems have point of views
Writing Goals
Term 2 (January-March)
Unit 3: Writing about Reading (Opinion Writing)
- Students will write letters about a character in their book. They will generate opinions to share
- Students use pictures and retelling important events and parts in their opinion writing
- Students keep audience in mind
- Students look for small details that can help them develop new ideas they can write about
- Students gather more evidence to support each of their opinions
Unit 4: Poetry-Big Thoughts in Small Packages
- Students will create a poetry journal to get inspiration from many different places
- Students will make a class list of topics that they can write about
- Students will think about the mood they want their poems to have
- Students will learn that poets use figurative language (using 5 senses)
- Students will practice writing similes
- Students will add repetitions in their poems
- Students will write a poem from a different point of view
Math Goals
Term 2 (January-March)
Topic 6:Fluently Subtract Within 100
- Students will break down 1 ten to 10 ones when subtracting
- Students use regrouping when subtracting a one-digit number from a two digit number
- Students use partial differences and focus on break apart numbers by place value
- Students solve two-step word problems
Topic 7: More Solving Problems Involving Addition and Subtraction
- Students will use a bar diagram to show relationships with the whole and parts of an equation
- Students will solve word problems using drawings and equations
- Students will model and solve two-step problems using equations
- Students will use different ways to solve two-step problems
- Students will learn that equations can have different numerical expressions on each side of the equal sign
Topic 8: Work with Time and Money
- Students will learn that each coin has a specific value
- Students will solve problems with coins and dollar bills
- Students will learn to tell and write time to five minutes
- Students will tell time before and after the hour
- Students will learn a.m. and p.m.
Topic 9: Numbers to 1,000
- Students understand place value and count by hundred to 1,000
- Students will draw, model and write 3 digit numbers (expanded form, standard form and word form)
- Students use place value patterns to help them count mentally by 1s and 10s
- Students skip count by 5s, 10s, and 100s to 1,000
- Students will compare numbers using values
Topic 10: Add Within 1,000 Using Models and Strategies
- Students will add 3 digit numbers using different strategies such as open number line, place value, using models, partial sums
Topic 11: Subtract Within 1,000 Using Models and Strategies
- Students will use place value patterns to help them mentally subtract 10 and 100 from a given 3 digit number
- Students will subtract 3 digit numbers using different strategies such as open number line, using models, place values
