GLEN RIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

 

Curriculum Guide

 

 

Course Title:                                                   Language Arts

 

Subject:                                                           Language Arts

 

Grade Level:                                                   Grade 2

 

Department/School:                                      Forest Avenue and Linden Avenue Schools

 

Duration:                                                        Full Year

 

Number of Credits:                                         N/A

 

Prerequisite:                                                   N/A

 

Elective or Required:                                     N/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Authors:  Cynthia Barrington

Patricia Ganjamie

Date Submitted:  Summer 2006

Course Description

 

 

The second grade language arts curriculum prepares students to achieve their maximum potential in language arts literacy through exposure to quality children’s literature in a wide variety of genres from which grade-appropriate strategies and skills are specifically taught.

GLEN RIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

LANGUAGE ARTS MISSION STATEMENT

 

 

In order to pursue interdisciplinary lifelong learning, students need the skills to communicate effectively.  Through a challenging, sequential academic curriculum, the Glen Ridge Language Arts Literacy Program provides all students with varied and integrated experiences.  The skills of reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, presenting, and research will enable them to effectively participate in school and in society, respectful of various points of views while displaying creative and critical thinking skills.

 

 

 

Goals of the Glen Ridge Language Arts Literacy Program

 

Provided with an environment that encourages creativity as well as expression of unique feelings and thoughts, students will:

 

  • become competent critical readers who learn to analyze, evaluate, reflect upon and respond to the ideas of others;
  • approach reading with an appreciation for a variety of literary styles, genres and contexts;
  • implement the writing process including:  pre-writing, drafting, revising, proofreading and publishing;
  • write in clear, concise, organized language that varies in content and form for different audiences and purposes;
  • apply appropriate conventions of spelling, grammar, punctuation and language usage;
  • speak for a variety of real purposes and audiences;
  • listen interactively in diverse situations to information from a variety of sources;
  • view, understand and construct meaning from non-textual sources;
  • gather, evaluate, synthesize and cite data from a variety of technological sources and print materials;
  • share, display and/or publish individual and collaborative products.

 

New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards

 

 

STANDARD 3.1       (READING) ALL STUDENTS WILL UNDERSTAND AND APPLY THE KNOWLEDGE OF SOUNDS, LETTERS, AND WORDS IN WRITTEN ENGLISH TO BECOME INDEPENDENT AND FLUENT READERS, AND WILL READ A VARIETY OF MATERIALS AND TEXTS WITH FLUENCY AND COMPREHENSION.

 

STANDARD 3.2       (WRITING) ALL STUDENTS WILL WRITE IN CLEAR, CONCISE, ORGANIZED LANGUAGE THAT VARIES IN CONTENT AND FORM FOR DIFFERENT AUDIENCES AND PURPOSES.

 

STANDARD 3.3       (SPEAKING) ALL STUDENTS WILL SPEAK IN CLEAR, CONCISE, ORGANIZED LANGUAGE THAT VARIES IN CONTENT AND FORM FOR DIFFERENT AUDIENCES AND PURPOSES.

 

STANDARD 3.4       (LISTENING) ALL STUDENTS WILL LISTEN ACTIVELY TO INFORMATION FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES IN A VARIETY OF SITUATIONS.

 

STANDARD 3.5       (VIEWING AND MEDIA LITERACY) ALL STUDENTS WILL ACCESS, VIEW, EVALUATE, AND RESPOND TO PRINT, NONPRINT, AND ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND RESOURCES.

 

 

 

 

Curriculum Description

 

PRE-UNIT – SMART START

Standard 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

 

Objectives:

1.      Oral Language (3.3, 3.4):  Daily – Build background knowledge, expand vocabulary, discuss read alouds

Genres:  Fable, Native American Tale, Realistic Fiction, Folk Tale

2.      Phonemic Awareness (3.1): Phoneme isolation, phoneme blending, phoneme categorization

3.      Comprehension Strategies and Skills: (3.1): Strategies - Analyze story structure

Skills: Identify character and setting, identify plot--beginning, middle and end, sequence.

4.      Vocabulary Strategies (3.1): High Frequency Words

5.      Phonics/Spelling (3.1, 3.2): Short /a/a, /i/i, /o/o, /e/e, /u/u

6.      Writing (3.2):

-         Day 1: Brainstorm

-         Day 2: Prewrite

-         Day 3: Draft

-         Day 4: Revise and Proofread

-         Day 5: Publish

Writing Trait: Ideas

Genre: Personal Narrative

 

Approximate duration to teach:  Five Weeks Plus One Week for Review and Assessment

 

Activities:

 

·          Read Alouds

·          Write a class personal narrative

 

 

UNIT 1 – RELATIONSHIPS    (School Days, Making Friends, Firefighters at Work, Being Yourself, Coming to America)

Standard 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5

 

Objectives:

1.      Oral Language (3.3, 3.4): Daily: Build background knowledge, expand vocabulary, discuss read alouds.

Genres: Realistic Fiction, Haiku, Narrative, Informational Text, Fiction, Fable, Essay, Nonfiction Article, Photo Essay, Poetry, Realistic Fiction, Nonfiction

2.      Text Features (3.1, 3.5): One Day Each: Photographs and captions, lists, book parts, graphs

3.      Phonemic Awareness (3.1):

-         Week 1: Identify and blend onsets and rimes, phoneme categorization, phoneme segmentation.

-         Week 2: Generate rhymes, phoneme isolation, phoneme blending, phoneme substitution.

-         Week 3: Phoneme categorization, phoneme substitution, phoneme blending.

-         Week 4: Segment and blend onsets and rimes, phoneme categorization, phoneme blending.

-         Week 5: Phoneme addition, phoneme categorization, phoneme blending.

4.      Comprehension Strategies and Skills: (3.1):  Strategies:

-         Week 1: Analyze story structure.

-         Week 2: Analyze story structure.

-         Week 3: Summarize.

-         Week 4: Summarize.

-         Week 5: Summarize.

Skills:

-         Week 1: Analyze character and setting.

-         Week 2: Analyze plot.

-         Week 3: Identify main idea and details.

-         Week 4: Identify main idea and details.

-         Week 5: Make and confirm predictions.

5.      Fluency (3.1) Daily: Word automaticity, echo read, timed reading, repeated reading

6.      Vocabulary Strategies (3.1):

-         Week 1: Use a dictionary.

-         Week 2: Word Parts – inflected verbs

-         Week 3: Word Parts – word families

-         Week 4: Use a dictionary.

-         Week 5: Word Parts – inflected verbs

7.      Phonics/Spelling (3.1, 3.2):

-         Week 1: Short /a/a, /i/i

-         Week 2: Short /e/e, /o/o, /u/u

-         Week 3: Short /a/a, Long /ā/a_e

-         Week 4: Short /i/i, Long /ī/i_e,

-         Week 5: Short /o/o, Long /ō/o_e

8.      Grammar, Mechanics, Usage (3.2):

-         Week 1: Statements and questions

-         Week 2: Commands and exclamations

-         Week 3: Subjects

-         Week 4: Predicates

-         Week 5: Sentence combining

9.      Writing (3.2):  Weekly:

-         Day 1: Brainstorm.

-         Day 2: Prewrite.

-         Day 3: Draft.

-         Day 4: Revise and proofread.

-         Day 5: Publish.

Writing Traits: Ideas, sentence fluency, voice

Genres: Personal narrative, expository writing, personal introduction, journal entry

 

Approximate duration to teach:  Five Weeks Plus One Week for Review and Assessment

 

Activities:

 

-         Write a personal narrative.

-         Read alouds.

-         Respond to picture prompts.

-         Daily journal writing.

-         Conduct an interview.

 

 

UNIT 2 - GROWTH AND CHANGE (Plants Alive!, Animal Rescue, A Hospital Visit, How Animals Grow, Staying Fit)

Standard 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5

 

Objectives:

1.      Oral Language (3.3, 3.4): Daily - Build background knowledge, expand vocabulary, discuss read alouds, compare and contrast genres.

Genres: Informational Fiction, Legend, Nonfiction Narrative, Narrative, Poetry, Fantasy, Nonfiction Article, Realistic Fiction, Newspaper Article

2.      Text Features (3.1, 3.5): One Day Each - Diagram and labels, illustrations and captions, graphs

3.      Phonemic Awareness (3.1):

-         Week 1: Phoneme categorization, phoneme substitution, phoneme blending

-         Week 2: Phoneme deletion, phoneme segmentation, phoneme blending

-         Week 3: Segment and blend onsets and rimes, phoneme substitution, phoneme blending

-         Week 4: Identify and generate rhymes, phoneme segmentation, phoneme blending

-         Week 5: Identify and make oral rhymes, phoneme substitution, phoneme blending.

4.      Comprehension Strategies and Skills (3.1): Strategies:

-         Week 1: Summarize.

-         Week 2: Summarize.

-         Week 3: Summarize, paraphrase.

-         Week 4: Generate questions, retell.

-         Week 5: Generate questions.

Skills:

-         Week 1: Main ideas and details, draw conclusions, analyze plot, connect reading across texts

-         Week 2: Sequence of events, main idea and details, analyze setting, analyze character, make and confirm predictions, similes, rhyme

-         Week 3: Sequence of events, make and confirm predictions, Use the Library

-         Week 4: Make inferences, draw conclusions, make and confirm predictions.

-         Week 5: Make inferences, sequence of events, main idea and details.

5.   Fluency (3.1):

-         Daily: Word automaticity, echo reading, timed reading, repeated reading, choral reading

6.   Vocabulary Strategies (3.1):

-         Week 1: Context clues, words with –er and -est

-         Week 2: Context clues, antonyms, compound words