Mrs. Lucchino’s
Second Grade
Mission Statement
We are here to learn, make friends
and have fun. We will do this by
listening, helping others, and
doing our best work. This will
happen because we choose to do it.
Scholastic Book Orders
• All orders are to be done on line. I will
send home the booklets and the
information to put in the order on line
I am not able to take paper orders.
When the book orders are received I will
send them home with the students.
Enrichment
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Independent Activities
ACC Math
Enrichment folders
Practice math facts
Computer
Math Activities (Flash Cards & Games)
HAWKS Time
Report Cards
 Computer generated report cards &
Progress Reports
 Progress Reports will be specific to the
NC Core Curriculum
 Report Cards will be overall goals
AR levels
 Classroom (2 Stickers)
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Blue 1.0 – 1.9
Pink/Red 2.0 – 2.9
Green 3.0-3.9
Yellow 5.0-5.9
Brown 4.0-4.9
AR Tests
AR tests can only be taken one time at WHE
80% to pass the test
We do not keep the points in 2nd grade.
Students must sign up for a test and record
their score.
• You can access the AR website at home and
keep track of your child’s AR progress. Sign
up to receive emails with AR reading results.
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BALANCED LITERACY
• Letterland: The focus is on phonemic
awareness, spelling rules and fluency.
• Reading Series: Students will learn about
story elements, predicting, inferences,
author’s purpose, cause and effect, fact
and opinion, retelling a story and fluency.
• Literacy Café: Students learn reading
strategies and apply them to books that
are a good fit and are of interest to them.
This year, we will build upon the Letterland
skills that were learned in first grade.
Some important skills that will be
introduced are: *Six syllable types
*blends and diagraphs *r-controlled vowels
*magic e *suffixes –ed and -es *short
vowels
*prefixes dis-, un-, re, and pre- *contractions
*consonant doubling *multi-syllable words
*new spelling patterns ph, gh, -tion, -ture
Common Core Standards
New curriculum standards adopted by most states, these are geared
toward student proficiency for college and career readiness. Standards
are aligned throughout all grade levels, so that each grade provides the
foundation for the next.
English Language Arts:
• Includes reading foundational skills such as phonics, fluency and
comprehension
• Focuses on nonfiction and texts in addition to fiction and poetry
• Writing centered on mechanics-capitalization, punctuation, and
grammar
• Vocabulary acquisition through sentence meaning, root word
knowledge, and use of a dictionary or glossary for spelling and
definition
• Speaking and listening skills are developed to conform to the
conventions of spoken English
Reading Standards
• Foundational Skills
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding
words
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
• Informational Text: Literary Nonfiction and Historical,
Scientific, and Technical Texts
Determine meaning of words and phrases in text, various text features to locate
key facts, identify main purpose
Explain how specific images clarify text, how reasons support author’s points,
compare and contrast two texts on the same topic
• Literature: Stories, Novels, Drama, and Poetry
Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions
Retell stories and determine central lesson
Describe characters and how they respond to events in a story
Describe story structure
Acknowledge different points of view of characters
Writing Standards
• Writing
Write opinion pieces, informative/explanatory texts, and narratives
Focus on a topic and strengthen writing by revising and editing
Use digital tools to produce and publish writing
Participate in research and writing projects
Recall information or gather information from sources to answer questions
Speaking and Listening Standards
• Comprehension and Collaboration
Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions
Ask for clarification or further explanation as needed about topics and texts
being discussed
• Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
Tell a story with appropriate facts and relevant details in coherent sentences
Produce complete sentences appropriate for the situation to provide details or
clarification
Language Standards
• Grammar and Usage when Writing or Speaking
Use of collective nouns, irregular plural nouns, reflexive pronouns
Form and use of irregular past tense verbs, and adjectives and adverbs
• Use of Capitalization, Punctuation, and Spelling
Correct use of capitalization with proper nouns, use of commas and
apostrophes, generalization of spelling patterns
Consult a dictionary to check and correct spelling
• Knowledge of Language
Use knowledge of language when writing, speaking, reading, or listening
• Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Use sentence context as a clue to word meanings
Determine new word meaning when a known prefix is added
Use a known root word to determine meaning of and unknown word with the
same root and knowledge of individual words to determine meaning of
compound words
Use glossaries and dictionaries to determine word meanings
Mathematics:
• Operations and algebraic thinking skills are developed
• Numbers and operations in base ten are taught to
develop understanding of place value
• Measurement will be addressed and includes length in
standard units, time, and money
• Data will be represented through the use of several
types of graphs
• Geometry instruction includes plane and solid shapes
• Fractions as represented by equal parts of a whole
• Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Represent and solve problems using addition and subtraction , including one and
two step word problems
Add and subtract numbers to 20 (Learn basic Math Facts)
Foundations for multiplication through working with equal groups of objects
• Numbers and Operations in Base Ten
Understand place value to 1,000
Use understanding of place value to add and subtract
Compare numbers up to three digits using < and >
• Measurement and Data
Estimate and measure lengths of an object using standard tools
Determine how much longer one object is than another and give the difference in
standard units
Tell time to the nearest five minutes
Solve word problems involving pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, an dollar bills
Draw line plot, picture, and bar graphs to represent data
• Geometry
Recognize and draw triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes
Divide shapes into equal shares and describe the shares