Second Grade Overview Year Literacy Plan
Codes:*SFA- Success For All,*TK-Tool Kit,*SS- Social Studies,*RARead Aloud,*RW-Read Works,*S-Science
AUGUST
 Ruby the Copycat (SFA)
 SS- Unit 3 Communities
 RA-Volunteers
SEPTEMBER
 City that Grows (SFA)
 S-Living Things (Investigating Your Background)
 Staying Alive (SFA)
 Johnnie Appleseed-Apples, How to make an apple pie, SS- How to
make an apple pie and see the world, Discovery Ed. Reading
Rainbow How to make an apple pie and see the world, apple taste
testing, RW- It is apple season, Disney Version of Johnnie
Appleseed
 The Story of Johnnie Appleseed form IMC (34 Copies)
http://www.mamaslearningcorner.com/johnny-appleseed-freeprintables-unit-study/#sthash.4bbuBn9C.dpbs\
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OCTOBER
 Arthur’s Puppy (SFA)
 S- Chapter 2 Animals (RW books- “Bugs, Bugs, Bugs”, “Winking,
Blinking, wiggling, and wagging”, “Wonderfully Weird Animals”
 Squeaking Bats (SFA)
 RW- All about bats (3) 1. Let’s explore caves, 2. A Bat Mystery, 3.
All About Bats.
 Basal 2.1 Fire Safety Pages 296,320
 TK- Seeing With Sound
 Teachers Pay Teachers
 Pinterest
 Bat books
 Friendly Letters
 Bat packets
 TK-Halloween Day of the Dead
NOVEMBER
 Truman’s Aunt Farm (SFA) homophones
 Informational Ants
 Basal- Ants 2.2 Page 60
 SS Unit 4 Thanksgiving Lessons 1 and 2
 Read Works- All About Ants, Ants In Action
 Elections-(on election years)
 TK- Pow Wow!
DECEMBER
 Jessica (SFA)
 Letters
 Christmas Stories
JANUARY
 Mr. Putters and Tabby Walk the Dog (SFA)
 RW- New Year
 MLK- RW (1)
 Kansas Day
 Home Across America (SFA)
FEBRUARY
 Chinese New Year-Basal 2.1 Chinatown Page 262
 Dental Health Month – Little Rabbits Loose Tooth (SFA)
 RW passages (5) Teeth
 President’s Day- SS chapter 4 lesson 5, Research a person, RW
 Valentine’s Poetry
 Wax Museum
 Biography- Basal 2.2 Page 134
MARCH
http://familycrafts.about.com/od/drseusscraftprojects/tp/PrintableSeuss-Worksheets-And-Coloring-Sheets.htm
Website for Dr. Seuss activities & books
 Dr. Seuss- Read Across America
(Open Week on 24th)
APRIL
 Weather- S-chapter 7, TK-Crackle, Flash, Boom!, TK-Clouds,
Basal 2.2 Page 260 Thunder Cake, RA- Tornado, RW- (4)
 Earth Day- TK Exploring Forests, S-Chapter 4 Living Things and
their Environment, S-Chapter 3 Plants, RA-The Great Kapok Tree,
RW-(4)
 Titanic (SFA)
MAY
 Cinco de Mayo
 Mother’s Day
 S- Chapter 5 Exploring Earth Surfaces, TK- Rock Secrets and
Fossils
EXTRA RESOURCES:
Rockets and Spaceships (SFA) good for Main Idea
Oceans (SFA), Teacher book “Oceans thematic Unit”