GENET SECOND GRADE – ELA PLANNING – 2005- 2006
DATE
STORY
Theme
9/12 –
9/16
Book 1-Unit 1
Ann’s First Day
friends
9/199/23
Henry and
Mudge, the First
Book
Pets
Animal classification
9/26 –
9/30
Luka’s Quilt
Fall
J. Appleseed
PHONIC
S
(KEYS)
short
vowel
sounds
aeiou
SIGHT WORDS
VOCABULARY
WORDS
back first live
name water
hurry shy lucky
crawls carrots
homework
COMPREHENSION
SKILLS
STUDY SKILLS
GRAMMAR
make predictions,
inflectional endings(s/es)
parts of a book
Complete
sentences:
statements
questions
commands:
exclamations
same fine take alone
used mine joke late
broke bike
subjects,
stay plain sea green
keep chief mail
dream clay mean
long
vowel
sounds
with
silent e
aiou
ee ie ea
ai ay
stop only open
sound take
parents worry
weighed hundred
searched
different
story elements: plot/
character
use contents page
inflectional end ed/ing
know most thing
very love
grandmother idea
garden remember
serious answered
context clues
read a glossary
characters and
setting
capitals and
commas in a
letter
still best bat mom
just desk clock hut
fit plant
10/310/7
4 days
The Round-up at
Rio Ranch
Cider/
Columbus
i y igh
o oa oe
ow
write our
number people
little
broken cattle
carefully fence
safety gently
make predictions
context clues
use an index
10/11 10/14
4 days
Time For Kids:
Welcome to a
New Museum
Fire safety
review
read place
before work
sentence
artist body hour
life visit famous
using the internet
sentence
combining,
quotation
marks
sky, bright, kind,
find, sight, yellow,
toast, throw, most,
show
10/1710/21
(4
days)
Unit 1 test
review
think push
great walk
through
reading social studies
review
they, were, said,
there, their, which,
about, would, could,
girl
Hibernation
predicates
SPELLING
commas in
dates and city,
state
toe slow old mine by
follow dry load row
sigh
10/2410/28
Book 1-Unit 2
Lemonade for
Sale
Halloween
10/3111/4
A Letter to Amy
Native
Americans
oo ue ew
ow ou
oi oy
ew
much line pull
right easy
melted poured
squeezed wrong
empty announced
problem and solution
prefix: re
read a graph
nouns,
using commas
true too new room
blew tool clue boot
few school
mean any follow
came nice
candles corner
glanced repeated
special wild
make inferences
compound words
read a diagram
irregular
plural nouns
down out point joy
house coin now loud
brown cowboy
11/711/10
4 days
The Best
Friends Club
Native
Americans
are
or ore
ear
show also
around today
small
allowed leaned
president promise
rules whispered
problem and solution
prefix: un
use a diagram
11/1411/18;
11/2111/22
Jamaica TagAlong
Thanksgiving
ar ir ur
er
put away soon
does another
building busy edge
form giant repair
make inferences
compound words
read a diagram
11/28 –
12/2
Time For Kids:
Sharks
review
Silent
letters:
w, k
large must even
such start
afraid chew
danger lesson
trouble
understand
use a bar graph
reading directions
(puppets)
silent
letters
l b g gh
turn need never
under stand
decide important
planet float
library proud
fantasy and reality
context clues
use a dictionary
Unit 2 test
Families
12/5 –
12/9
Book 1-Unit 3
Arthur Writes a
Story
Marc Brown
cookies
letter writing
Proper nouns, porch care dear
abbreviations more short bare
Plural nouns: tore year corn shore
add -es
plural nounsy to i and add –es
possessive
nouns
(apostrophes)
plurals vs.
possessives
action verbs
abbreviations
arm birthday her
fur turned curl farm
dirt herd, burnt
ten, twenty, thirty,
forty, fifty, sixty,
seventy, eighty,
ninety, hundred
high half wrote
thumb lamb knee
knot comb wrong
chalk
12/1212/16
Cookies/holiday
le en
cause and effect
commas in a
series
family, card,
surprise, party,
decorate, present,
gift, winter, holiday,
cookie
12/1912/23
Tomie dePaola
1/3/06
– 1/6
(4
days)
Best Wishes, Ed
The Arctic
context clues
read an encyclopedia
synonyms
presenttense verbs
other over corner
driver never farmer
father another
brother together
1/91/13
The Pony
Express
Sending
messages
short e:
ea
mother answer
found study
jump
arrive early finish
record rush
success
fantasy and reality
use a telephone
directory
past-tense
verbs (-ed),
letter writing
learn should
world high near
earth lonely
wonderful forget
mountain memory
cause and effect
use a dictionary
verb – have,
capital
letters in
book titles
leather bread
weather spread
breakfast ready
meant feather
instead meadow
many money every
happy tiny baby key
funny party lady
1/171/20
4 days
Nine-In-One,
GRR! GRR!
Black History/
Biographies
e ey y
ea en le
1/23 –
1/27
Time for Kids:
Change for the
Quarter
bears
review
add food below
between own
collect honors
join order
pocket worth
choose a reference
source
synonyms
sentence
combining
proper nouns
square circle
triangle rectangle
oval half part third
whole fourth
1/302/3
Unit 3 test
review
light plant city
next begin
Reading media
review
eye ear mouth head
hair nose hear noise
voice sight
2/62/10
Book 2 - Unit 1
Charlie Anderson
oo
earth thought
head story
draw conclusions
antonyms
linking verbs,
proper nouns
Jan Brett
New Year’s Eve?
er
Sound
different home
move try
school
picture again
change spell
own
air point letter
father keep
couple climbed
drifted half
message notice
upstairs clothes
middle roof
wood book stood
foot wool brook
2/132/17
2/27 –
3/3
Human Body
Fernando’s Gift
Presidents
Washington DC
The Best
Vacation Ever
soft c
and g
all alk aw
au
3/2- Dr. Seuss
Colonial Life
3/6 –
3/10
Zipping, Zapping,
Zooming Bats
ph tch
Nocturnal
Animals
white
offered chocolate
use a map
along might
close seem
something
village noisy diving
explained soil
harm
compare and
contrast antonyms
read a chart
brave practice
museum guess
vacation wonder
draw conclusions
inflectional endings
(er, est)
read a map
hard example
life always
those
both paper
group often
important
explore fact
disturb nature
object several
breath cover
crops darkness
scary study
3/13 –
3/17
Time For Kids:
Going Batty for
Bats
Fables
review
until side feet
mile
3/133/18
Unit 1 test
review
night sea took
fish grow
are
or ore
ear
carry once hear
late
3/203/24
St. Patrick’s Day
Fables
Book 2 - Unit 2
Bremen Town
Musicians
Matter-sugaring
Helen Keller
daughter music
scare third voice
whistle
compare and contrast
inflectional endings
read a map
helping
verbs,
quotation
marks
irregular
verbs
go/went, do/did,
say/said,
see/saw
irregular
verbs
give/gave,
sing/sang,
come/came,
run/ran,
use a chart
contractions
reading science texts
Review
summarize
suffixes (-ful, -ly)
follow directions
Pronouns (I,
he, she, it, you,
we, you, they)
quotation
marks
hood hook shook
cook
dance age rice mice
charge race space
cage large page
paw caught because
talk straw hawk salt
lawn taught fault
phone catch each
patch sandwich
match graph pitch
beach touch
Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday,
Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, month,
week, calendar
Months (12)
scare, storm, nearly,
short, share,
morning, careful,
clearly, fearful,
parent
3/273/31
Our Soccer
League
oo ue ew
miss without
enough idea
Maps
4/34/7
The Wednesday
Surprise
Storms
Landforms
4/104/13
(4 days
vac?)
Fossils Tell of
Long Ago
4/244/28
5/15/5
5/85/12
5/155/19
er le en
face watch far
real almost
coaches field
score stretches
throws touch
sequence of events
context clues
read a newsletter
I / me,
we / us
United States, north,
America, globe, west,
south, East
Greenbush, New York
*your street name
chance favorite
heavy nervous
office wrapped
summarize
suffixes(ly, ful)
use a calendar
Possessive
pronouns,
Proper nouns
price, buy, nickel,
dollar, cost, exact,
cent, dime, quarter,
penny
sequence of events
context clues
interpret signs
pronoun-verb
agreement
towel boiling flower
mouse ground
crowd couch enjoy
noise choice
read an
advertisement
Contractions
research: checking
facts
Review
adjectives,
using commas
second third
fourth fifth eighth
planet ninth
museum star
solar system
hour minute clock
evening midnight
afternoon finish
begin time watch
nurse doctor
firefighter mailman
dentist station
library teacher
store office
ow ou
oi oy
let above talk
list song
buried creatures
fossils fresh
layers millions
Time For Kids:
Are You a Fossil
Fan?
Solar System
review
leave family
body color sun
hunt magazine glue
tooth change
Unit 2 test
review
Dinosaurs
Solar System
Book 2 - Unit 3
Officer Buckle
and Gloria
Community
Helpers
Tomas and the
Library Lady
Community
question knew
sad hot save
ph tch
ch
almost caught
listen quick
drink
accident audience
cheered slips
station wipe
form generalizations
multiple-meaning
words
library search by
subject
ee ie ea
i y igh
across better
black true
hurt
borrow desert
evenings midnight
package shoulder
main idea
multiple-meaning
words
read a library floor
articles
a and an
shift chair check
shoe children
shared shining shape
chase cheek
5/225/26
(26vac?)
Helpers
Princess Pooh
Patriotic
Holidays
5/306/2
Swimmy
Life Cycles
Mealworms
Frogs
6/5 6/9
Time For Kids:
The World’s
Plants Are in
Danger
Oceans
4 days
30? vac
ai ay
oa oe ow
Soft
c and g
review
Unit 3 test
6/126/16
Oceans
review
friend low
pretty quiet
few
free just bird
street thank
every phone
while won trip
cousins crowded
golden princess
restaurant world
escaped fierce
hidden machine
swaying swift
cleared disappear
forever problem
save warns
plan
form generalizations
(most, some, usually,
always, often never most
everyone)
figurative languagesimiles
use an encyclopedia
main idea
library search by
author (call numbers)
figurative language idioms
choose a reference
source
reading online
resources,
e-mail
comparative
adjectives
(er/est),
apostrophe
with push both rush
bath mouth brush
teeth dash fish
adverbs,
using capital
letters
thirsty wheel throw
whale whimper
thought whirl
whisper through
thick
synonyms and
antonyms
review
scale ruler inch yard
pound gallon degree
quart meter ounce
ocean dolphin shark
coral waves beach
octopus underwater
fishing swimming
9/21/05 E. Beams, Grade 2 Genet