Second Grade Curriculum » Language Arts - Theme 3
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Language Arts - Theme 3
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LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM  Our district mandated Houghton Mifflin reading program provides a balanced program of reading, grammar, vocabulary and writing centered on themes. Reading, writing/grammar and word work are built into our program to ensure your child has a strong foundation for language arts. Through this program, students will participate in Guided Reading, Self-Selected Reading, and Word Work. A comprehensive Grammar/Writing program will be used during our Language Arts block as well. Writing will also be a part of our Science and Social Studies curriculum. The following are our story titles as well as the Comprehension strategy and skill that we will be focusing on with each story. Theme 2: Around Town - Neighborhood and Community  Chinatown-Realistic Fiction Summarize: To tell in your own words what happens in the story. Making Judgements: Use facts from the story and our beliefs to make and confirm opinions about the characters or situations. ____________________________________________________________  A Trip to the Firehouse - Nonfiction Question: To figure out what part you do not understand. Topic/Main Idea ____________________________________________________________  Big Bushy Mustache - Realistic Fiction Predict/Infer: To use what we have read and what we know (schema) to learn more than the author tells us. Problem Solving: Characters in stories often have problems to solve and may have to try more than just one way to solve them.  Jamaica Louise James - Realistic Fiction Evaluate: To decide if what we are reading is entertaining, informative, or useful for us. Making Inferences: Readers can understand more about a story and its characters if they look for clues in what the characters do and say.
La Jolla Elementary School
Moreno Valley USD
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