AUTAUGA COUNTY SCHOOLS
Second Grade – Reading Unit 2 Overview
Week 1
Week 2
Story Selection:
Tara & Tiree, Fearless
Friends
Abraham Lincoln
Scarcity
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Academic Vocabulary:
cause, effect, noun, common noun, collective noun, narrative nonfiction, unfamiliar, context, summarize, source, fact, opinion,
expository text, author’s purpose, text structure, descriptive
contraction, author’s purpose, topic, proper noun, facts, dictionary, glossary, guide words, informational text, text structure,
time line, source, details, poetry, verse, heading, topic, main idea
fact, details, singular noun, plural noun, collective noun, sequence, background knowledge, chapter, heading, cause, effect,
home page, Internet, online, website, details, main idea
cause, effect, clue words, plural noun, homophones, dialogue, drama, sequence, story structure, encyclopedia, compare and
The Bremen Town
contrast, folk tale, moral, conflict, theme, repetition, base (root) word
Musicians
One Good Turn Deserves compare, contrast, possessive noun, inferring, Internet, URL. website, author’s purpose, fable, idiom
Another
Spelling Words
Week 1
Vowels
r-
Week 2
Contractions
Controlled
Focus Reading Skills/High Frequency Words/ Vocabulary:
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Vowels
r-
Plurals
Vowel
Patterns
a, ai, ay
Controlled
hard
can’t
person
lunch
main
before
it’s
turn
lunches
wait
farm
he’s
curb
story
say
chore
I’m
stories
away
born
didn’t
tune
play
more
who’s
tunes
raise
porch
she’s
switch
brain
score
aren’t
switches
paint
horse
isn’t
baby
stay
smart
haven’t
babies
today
corn
hadn’t
I’ll
purse
nurse
birth
curl
turtle
dirt
serve
skirt
her
note
tray
notes
tail
part
Genre
Reading
Focus Skill/
Strategy
High
Frequency
Words
Week1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Literary
Nonfiction
Informational
Text
Expository
Text
Drama
Fairy Tale
Folk Tale
Cause &
Effect,
Summarize
Author’s
Purpose,
Text
Structure
Facts &
Details,
Background
Knowledge
Cause &
Effect,
Story
Structure
Compare &
Contrast,
Inferring
break
listen
family once
heard
pull
certainly
either
great
laugh
second
worst
you’re
fault
honest
lawyer
noticed
above
ago
enough
toward
whole word
bought
people
pleasant
probably
scared
shall
sign
excitement
mill
monsters
musician
robbers
behind
brought
door
everybody
minute
promise
sorry
armadillo
creature
grateful
groaned
snorted
brave collar
slipped
Selection
Vocabulary
hurricanes
resources
scarce
scarcity tradeoff
Week 5
Language Skills:
Week1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Unfamiliar
Words,
Nouns
Dictionary,
Glossary,
Guide Words
Nouns
Time & Order
Words for
Sequence,
Singular &
Plural Nouns
Homophones,
Plural Nouns
Week 5
Unfamiliar
Words,
Possessive
Nouns
Oral
Vocabulary
courageous
hazard
rescue
avalanche
instinct
skittish
blustery fastpaced
identify
participate
significant
scour
ingenious
aloft
architect
tinker
consumer(s)
decisions(s)
producer(s)
fiber
strand
extraordinary
lack typical
partnership
solution
survival
miserable
struggle
depend
familiar
insist
Handwriting:
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Letters
Ii, Uu, Rr
Letter Size
Letters
Nn, Mm
Letter Size
Letters
Jj, Pp
Letter Form
Letters
Ww, Yy
Letter Slant
Letters
Qq, Vv
Letter Spacing
Writing: How to/Sequencing Narrative
conflict
pursue
resolve
deserve
mope
coax
ramp
startle