Updated 9-26-12 Library Six Weeks At-A-Glance Grade 2 Unit 2 Theme: Community Heroes Essential Question: What heroes live in your community? IC OI: Continuity and Change

Literature Genre Technology / Media Comprehension Text Features/ Writing IC: OI Guiding 2nd Six Weeks OI: Selection Strategies and Literary Write Source Questions Continuity and Change Skills Elements/ Study Skills

Babu’s Song Main Selection McGraw-Hill Treasures Strategy Maps Narrative Guiding SCIENCE Literary Text/ TE, p. 321I Monitor Writing : Questions: Investigation and reasoning Written by Fiction Comprehension Narrative How can change skills Stephanie Stuve- Paired Selection TERMS Reread Paragraph be good and bad? Earth and Space Bodeen Informational mouse Skill Character, (Model, rocks – physical properties Illustrated by Text/ Expository keyboard Setting, Plot Prewriting, What things stay freshwater / saltwater Aaron Boyd cursor Spiral Review Drafting, the same over natural / man-made resources click and drag Make, Confirm Revising, time? Types of weather – seasonal safety Predictions Editing) Cloud types Keyboard practice, - Skills: How are Water cycle WK THEME: Creating, naming and Prepositions, continuity and Objects in the sky—sun, moon, orbit, rotation Family Heroes saving a document Adjectives, change important Stars, Sun Action Verbs to our Earth? Moon - phases MEDIA LITERACY Main Selection Keeping a program log SOCIAL STUDIES Doña Flor Literary Text/ Expository Research Strategy Photographs Personal Identifying physical aspects and locations on Folktale Report Monitor and Captions Narrative Earth (Earth Experts video project) – Written by Pat Paired Selection Comprehension (Model, Paper Slide Videos Mora Literary IC Lesson – Our Big Reread Prewriting) Illustrated by Nonfiction/ Home the Earth Skill Cause and - Skills: landforms (plains, mountains, valleys, island Raul Colón Biography Identifying physical Effect Review Skills ocean, river, lake) aspects and locations on Spiral Review Based on continents and oceans Earth (Earth Experts Character, Students' map keys WK THEME: video project) SEE Setting, Plot Needs: US states – climate, weather patterns, Local Heroes planner Prepositions, landforms, bodies of water, and natural Conjunctions, resources IC Lesson- The Earth’s Adjectives, cardinal directions Many Features Verbs compass rose Related resource: community, neighborhood, school Nystrom Nystronaut (natural resources) Atlas Characteristics of communities: urban, rural, A Tall Tale Main Selection Strategy Using Parts of Personal Narrative suburban Informational IC Lesson – Rock Stars Monitor a Book (Drafting) Time For Kids Text/ Expository Use Google Earth to Comprehension -Skills: Informational view mountains Read Ahead Complete MIND MISSIONS (classroom) Skill Sentences, Changing the Land -- Big, Big, Bridge Resources: Main Idea and Quotation (Google Earth) WK THEME: Brainpop Jr activities are Details Marks, Remembering linked through Spiral Review Punctuating Community curriculum Cause and Effect Heroes Dialogue Literature Genre Technology / Media Comprehension Text Features/ Writing IC: OI Guiding 2nd Six Weeks OI: Selection Strategies and Literary Write Source Questions Continuity and Change Skills Elements/ Study Skills (also found through One Grain of Rice Main Selection Nettrekker) Strategy Headings Personal IC “I Wonder”: Literary Text/ Scribblemaps Generate Narrative Social Studies: Written and Folktale Maps 101 Questions ( Revising) *Investigate additional natural resources and illustrated by Paired Selection Skill -Skills: Verb the steps in producing things made from them. Demi Informational IC Lesson – Our Country Make Inferences Tenses, *Research to learn about the climate and Text/ Expository states research:Maps101 Spiral Review Adjectives landforms of a particle state or region. Use this WK THEME: Culturegrams-States Character, information to decide why people might decide What Makes a Setting, Plot to live in this state or region. Hero? IC Lesson- Urban, Rural, *Create your own map of Plano. Add several Suburban places you would like to go. Don’t forget to Related book: include a key and a compass rose. African-American The Little House, by Personal Inventors Main Selection Virginia Burton, or any Strategy Time Line Narrative Science: Literary other book on this topic Generate (Editing, *Create a “Rock Museum.” Be sure to include information about the size, texture and color of Written by Jim Nonfiction/ Questions Publishing) the rocks along with how they were classified. Haskins Biography IC Lesson – Me on the Skill - Skills: *Research the differences between natural Illustrated by Eric Paired Selection Map related book: Compare and Nouns, resources and man-made resources. Velasquez Informational Me on the Map by Joan Contrast Common Text/ Expository Sweeney Spiral Review Nouns, *Choose a natural resource and pretend it is no Main Idea and Proper longer available. Create a commercial or advertisement telling what the earth would be WK THEME: IC Lesson- Earth Experts! Details Nouns, End like without that resource. Heroes from Paper slide videos – SEE Punctuation, Long Ago planner Capitalization, Plurals, Celebrations: Veteran’s Day, Nov 12 IC Lesson - On Cloud 9 Contractions Nov 11-17 Geography Awareness related books: It Looked Review Week Show What You Review/Assess Review/Assess Narrative Week Like Spilt Milk, by Charles G. Oct 19 Poster Contest Campus Registration Know Shaw; The Cloud Book, by Strategy: Maps, Writing Declare Your Interdependence! Folktales Tomie dePaolo Generate Photographs Across Spiral Review Questions and the IC Lesson –Dancing With Skill: Captions; Curriculum WK THEME: the Stars suggested Cause/Effect, Headings; Time Skills: Review Review and books for ‘text station”: Main Line; Using Skills Based Assess Stargazers by Gail Gibbons, Idea and Detail Parts of a Book on Students' Do Stars Have Points by M. Needs & G. Berger, The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole, How Many Stars in the Sky? by Lenny Hort, William Morrow

IC Lesson – Man on the Moon moon phases - Google Earth? McGraw–Hill Treasures, TE Grade 2; Plano ISD Elementary ELA Planner, IC Planner, WriteSource