Reading/Writing Curriculum Calendar
Units of Study: Grade 2
Month
September
Reading Units of Study
Writing Units of Study
Launching Readers’ Workshop
Launching Writing Workshop
 Personal Narrative (Writing many pieces)
October
Reading Fiction
 Developing a Sense of the Story
 Understand differences in points
of view of characters
November
Realistic Fiction
 Thinking deeper about characters
 Describe how characters respond
to events of the story
Readers’ Theater: Reading and RolePlaying
 Fairy tales/folk tales (i.e.
Comparing and contrasting
versions of Cinderella)
Reading Fantasy Stories
 Inferring
Personal Narrative
 Expanding and fancying up our personal
stories
 Publication not required – just rereading
and making changes to existing pieces
Writing Fiction
 Writing many new pieces
 Publish one best story
December
January
February
March
Narrative Non-fiction
 Reading the World (Social Studies
content area)
Expository Non-fiction
April
Envisioning Poetry
May
The Lessons our Fiction Stories Teach Us
 Revisiting Mentor Texts
June
Author Study
June 2014
JN
Write an adaptation to a fairy tale
 Include details to describe thoughts and
feelings
 Use temporal words to signal event order
and provide closure
Writing Fantasy
 Create as many stories as possible
Writing letters to famous people in history.
 Letter should include opinions about that
person
How-to and All About books
 (All About may include a How-to at the end)
 Publish non-fiction writing
Writing Poetry
 Publish at least one poem
Writing About Reading
 Literary responses
 Opinions about characters
 Lessons learned from books (citing
textual evidence)
Author’s Craft
 Embed any craft by revising, editing, and
completing an existing piece