Strategy/skill connection
Strategy Focus
2013-2014 Curriculum Pacing Guide-Second Grade- Reading
Overall goal: Students will demonstrate comprehension of fiction and nonfiction texts and read with fluency, accuracy, and expression.
THE STRATEGIES ARE NATURALLY INTERWOVEN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, BUT ARE EXPLICITLY TAUGHT DURING THE SPECIFIED QUARTERS.
1st Quarter
2nd Quarter
3rd Quarter
Visualizing
Fiction and Nonfiction
Questioning
Fiction and Nonfiction
Clarifying
Fiction and Nonfiction
Making Connections
Fiction and Nonfiction
Visualizing
Predicting
Fiction and Nonfiction
Questioning
Making Inferences
Fiction and Nonfiction
Clarifying
Apply visualization of text to enhance
understanding (2.8,2.9)
Use information from words, pictures,
graphs, maps, charts and other text
features to create mental pictures
(2.8,2.9a,c)
Use prior knowledge to add to text to
make connections (2.8b, 2.9c)
Use emotions of characters to create
mental pictures (2.8e)
Making Connections
Use prior knowledge and personal
experiences to make connections such
as text-to-self, text-to-text, and textto-world (2.9c)
Make comparisons between texts and
themes (2.8, 2.9)
Use questioning to set a purpose
for reading(2.8)
Use text features to locate
information and answer
questions (2.8, 2.9)
Locate information to answer
questions and demonstrate
understanding (2.8d, 2.9f)
Construct deeper level questions
that ask how or why
Predicting
Use information from text
features to make and confirm
predictions (2.8a, 2.9b)
Explain prediction based on
information from the story (i.e.
characters, setting, pictures) (2.8,
2.9)
Use illustrations and images to
clarify text (2.8, 2.9)
Monitor understanding while
reading by stopping to ask
questions when confused
Self-correct errors using multiple
fix-up strategies (2.8)
Making Inferences
Interpret charts and graphs in
nonfiction text (2.9)
Describe a character’s traits,
feelings and actions using prior
knowledge and text clues (2.8)
Deduce story elements that are
not explicitly stated in the text
Understand the meaning of
unfamiliar words
4th Quarter
Determining Importance
Fiction and Nonfiction
Synthesizing/Summarizing
Fiction and Nonfiction
Determining Importance
Identify main idea, supporting
details, and problems and
solutions from text (2.8f,g;
2.9g)
Describe characters, settings,
and important events in fiction
and poetry (2.8f)
Describe how characters
respond to key events (2.8)
Synthesizing/Summarizing
Summarize stories and events
with beginning, middle, and
end in the correct sequence
(2.8h)
Use sequence words to retell
story orally and in writing (2.8)
Ongoing
2013-2014 Curriculum Pacing Guide-Second Grade- Reading
Fluency
Read and reread stories, poems, and passages with accuracy, fluency, and prosody (2.8j, 2.9h)
Language Development
Demonstrate an understanding of oral language structure (2.1)
Expand understanding and use of word meanings (2.2)
Use oral communication skills (2.3)
Word Analysis
Use semantic clues and syntax to expand vocabulary when reading (2.6, 2.7)
Reference Materials
Demonstrate comprehension of information in reference materials (2.10)
Phonemes
Orally identify, produce, and manipulate various units of speech sounds within words (2.4)
Phonetic Principles
Use phonetic strategies when reading and spelling (2.5)