North Platte Curriculum Map
Grade: 2nd Grade
Subject : Writing/Language Arts
Committee Members: Sue Johnson, Julie Kinnaman, Kristi Burford – Updated Fall 2008
Months
Handwriting
1st and 2nd
Semester
Speaking
1st and 2nd
Semester
Listening
Content
D’Nealian
manuscript
method will be
used in writing
throughout all
subject areas
Ask questions to
gain information
Contribute to
class discussions
Follow directions
1st and 2nd
Semester
Use active
listening skills
Study Skills
Essential
Question
Skills
-Review formation of
D’Nealian lowercase
letters
-Letter size
-Spacing
-Punctuation marks (.?!,’)
-Posture and paper
placement
-Review formation of
D’Nealian uppercase
letters
-Ask how, why, and what
questions that are
related to topic
-Stay on topic
-Use appropriate voice
level in groups
-Gain the floor in
appropriate ways
-Follow one and two step
oral directions
-Attend to speakers,
teachers, and classroom
-Use Boys Town Skill of
listening
-Attend to presentations
and demonstrations
-Acknowledge a teacher
when given a purpose for
listening
-Answer questions to
demonstrate
understanding
-Use diagrams and
graphs
Assessment
Nebraska State
Standards:
4.3.1
4.3.2
Standards
Resources
4.2.3
-D’Nealian handwriting
worksheets
4.3.1
4.3.2
Supplement on your own
Nebraska State Standard:
4.4.1
4.4.1
4.1.3
4.2.1
4.6.2
Supplement on your own
North Platte Curriculum Map
Grade: 2nd Grade
Subject : Writing/Language Arts
Committee Members: Sue Johnson, Julie Kinnaman, Kristi Burford – Updated Fall 2008
Spelling
Spell correctly
1st and 2nd
Semester
Writing
1st and 2nd
Semester
Grammar and
Writing
September
Plan
Revise
Identify and use
sentence
structure
Trait:
Conventions
October
Writing Process
Identify and use
sentence
structure
Trait:
Conventions
Writing Process
-American Heritage Word
List (151-350)
-Word Families
-Subject areas as needed
-Spelling Rules
-Edit for capitals,
punctuation, and spaces
between words
-Use editing marks
-Webbing and story
mapping
4.2.1
-American Heritage Word
List
-Spelling series from
McGraw/Hill
4.2.3
4.1.3
-D.O.L. (Daily Oral
Language)
-Statements
-Commands
-Questions
-Exclamations
-Use correct punctuation
marks (.?!)
4.2.1
-Grammar series from
McGraw/Hill
-Write Source series
-Six Trait Writing
-Introduce 5 steps: Plan,
Write, Revise, Check,
Publish
-Subjects and Predicates
-Comma usage (dates,
addresses, letters, and a
series)
4.2.1
-Grammar series from
McGraw/Hill
-Write Source series
-Six Trait Writing
-Friendly letters
North Platte Curriculum Map
Grade: 2nd Grade
Subject : Writing/Language Arts
Committee Members: Sue Johnson, Julie Kinnaman, Kristi Burford – Updated Fall 2008
November and
December
January
Identify and use
parts of speech
Trait:
Conventions
Identify and use
parts of speech
Trait:
Organization
February
March
April
Identify and use
sentence
structure
Trait:
Ideas
Trait:
Ideas
Trait:
Word Choice
Trait:
Conventions
-Nouns (singular/plural;
common/proper)
-Personal pronouns
-Pronoun “I”
4.2.1
-Grammar series from
McGraw/Hill
-Write Source series
-Titles (books, people)
-Six Trait Writing
-Action verbs
4.2.1
-Use first, next, and last
to write step by step
directions
-Grammar series from
McGraw/Hill
-Write Source series
-Six Trait Writing
-Write a descriptive
paragraph with
beginning, middle, and
ending sentences about
one central idea
-Journal Writing
-Write informative
reports
-Simple/compound
sentences
-Generate and organize
ideas by writing a
narrative paragraph (AllAbout-Me Stories)
-Four Square Writing
Nebraska State
Standards:
4.2.1
4.2.2
4.2.3
4.2.5
District Wide Writing
Assessment
4.2.4
4.2.1
-Six Trait Writing
-Four Square Writing
4.2.2
4.2.1
-Adjectives
-Quotations
-Contractions
-Write Source series
4.2.1
4.1.2
-Grammar series from
McGraw/Hill
-Write Source series
-Six Trait Writing
-Four Square Writing
-Brainpopjr videos for
writing
-Grammar series from
McGraw/Hill
-Write Source series
-Six Trait Writing
North Platte Curriculum Map
Grade: 2nd Grade
Subject : Writing/Language Arts
Committee Members: Sue Johnson, Julie Kinnaman, Kristi Burford – Updated Fall 2008
May
Review all traits
2nd grade is
responsible for:
-Ideas
-Organization
-Word Choice
-Conventions
-Revise rough drafts for
ideas, organization, and
word choice
-Edit for capitals,
punctuation, and spaces
between words
-Use editing marks
(ongoing)
4.2.3
-Four Square Writing
-Grammar series from
McGraw/Hill
-Write Source series
-Six Trait Writing
-Four Square Writing