| week | Unit | Text Selections | Weekly Learning Target | Common Core ELA Standards Covered | Reading Street Textbook Location | Suggested Lesson Plans | Suggested Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Intro | Teacher’s Choice Alphabet Review | Identify and print all upper and lowercase letters. Students can follow basic procedures and rules for ELA class. | Review |
N/A | Lesson Plans | Resources |
| Week 2 | Exploration | The Twin Club 1st Day of School, 179th Day of School | Students can identify and read short vowels and consonants. Students can identify how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning for a story. Students can answer questions about a story. Students can write a narrative using sequencing words. | RF2.3 RF2.3a |
Book 2.1 Unit 1 pg 18-51 |
Lesson Plans | Resources |
| Week 3 | Exploring Space with an Astronaut A Trip to Space Camp | Students can identify and read long vowels with silent e. Students can use various text features to locate key facts or information. Students can identify the main purpose of a text. Students can participate in shared research and writing projects. | RF2.3c RF2.3e |
Unit 1 pg 52-81 pg 32-51 |
Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 4 | Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night How to Make a S’more | Students can identify and read consonant blends. Students can describe the main characters in stories and give evidence from the text about their actions and choices. Students can draw on past experiences to write and edit a piece of realistic fiction. | RF2.3 RF2.3f |
Unit 1 pg 82-113 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 5 | A Walk in the Desert Rain Forests | Students can identify and read words with inflected endings. Students can tell a story with fats and details. Students can ask and answer questions in order to clarify understanding. Students can use prefixes to determine the meaning of a word. Students can participate in shared research and writing projects. | RF2.3 RF2.3f |
Unit 1 pg 114-149 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 6 | The Strongest One Anteaters | Students can identify and read words with consonant digraphs. Students can acknowledge differences in the points of view in characters. Students can recreate a play and make a recording. Students can identify and use synonyms. Students can read with expression and intonation. | RF2.3 RF2.3f |
Unit 1 pg 150-183 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 7 | Teacher’s Choice Review | Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content. | Review |
N/A | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 8 | Working Together | Tara and Tiree, Fearless Friends Rescue Dogs | Students can identify and read r-controlled vowels. Students can tell the differences between fiction and nonfiction. Students can understand and use nouns when reading, writing, and speaking. Students can locate the facts stated in a text. Students can read with accuracy and fluency. | RF2.3 RF2.3a |
Book 2.1 Unit 2 pg 184-217 |
Lesson Plans | Resources |
| Week 9 | Abraham Lincoln Lincoln | Students can identify and read contractions. Students can identify an author’s purpose for writing. Students can use capital letters correctly. Students can describe the connection between a series of historical events. Students can understand and use different types of media to display works. | RF2.3 RF2.4 |
Unit 2 pg 218-247 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 10 | Scarcity Goods and Services | Students can identify and read r-controlled vowels. Students can use various text features to find key details. Students can read and understand informational passages. Students can write an informative text with an introduction, facts, details, and a closing. | RF2.3 RF2.3e |
Unit 2 pg 248-277 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 11 | The Bremen Town Musicians A Fool Goes Fishing | Students can compare and contrast two more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures. Students can form and use irregular nouns. Students can share information together. Students can identify the themes of a fable or folktale. | RF2.3 RF2.3f |
Unit 2 pg 278-313 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 12 | One Good Turn Deserves Another The Lion and the Mouse | Students can compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures. Students can identify and read the vowel patterns a, ai, ay. The students can use reflexive pronouns. The students can share information. | RF2.3a RF2.3c |
Unit 2 pg 314-345 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 13 | Teacher’s Choice Review | Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content. | Review |
N/A | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 14 | Creative Ideas | Pearl and Wagner: Two Good Friends Alberto, the Scientist | Students can identify and read the vowel patterns e, ee, ea, and y. Students can tell the difference between fiction and nonfiction and state the author’s purpose for writing. Students can use the correct tenses of verbs when reading and writing. | RF2.3a RF2.3c |
Book 2.1 Unit 3 pg 346-381 | Lesson Plans | Resources |
| Week 15 | Dear Juno Many Ways to Be a Soldier | Students can identify and read the vowel patterns o, oa, ow. Students can use pictures to help understand a text. Students can identify and describe the main characters in a story. Students can use commas when writing a letter. Students can use prefixes to figure out the meanings of words. | RF2.3a RF2.3b |
Unit 3 pg 382-417 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 16 | Anansi Goes Fishing Science Poetry Collection | Students can use their knowledge of individual words to figure out the meaning of compound words. Students can summarize when giving information. Students can compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story. Students can read with expression. | RF2.3c RF2.3f |
Unit 3 pg 418-451 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 17 | Rosa and Blanca The Crow and the Pitcher | Students can read and identify the vowel patterns i, ie, igh, and y. Students can compare characters between two texts. Students can use descriptive words when writing. Students can use context clues. Students can form and use irregular nouns. | RF2.3a RF2.3b |
Unit 3 pg 452-479 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 18 | A Weed Is a Flower What’s Made from Corn | Students can identify, read, and use words with comparative endings –er and –est. Students can describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text. Students can identify a text as fiction or nonfiction and give reasons to support the claim. Students can give their opinion in writing. | RF2.3 RF2.3f |
Unit 3 pg 480-517 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 19 | Teacher’s Choice Review | Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content. | Review |
N/A | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 20 | Our Changing World | A Froggy Fable Ben the Bullfrog | Students can blend words with finally syllable –le. Students can use context clues to figure out words with multiple meanings. Students can use revising and editing to strengthen their writing. Students can identify the theme in a fable. Students can use a text and their background knowledge to draw a conclusion. | RF2.3 RF2.4b |
Book 2.2 Unit 4 pg 18-53 |
Lesson Plans | Resources |
| Week 21 | Life Cycle of a Pumpkin How do seeds know which way is up? | Students can identify and read words with the vowel patterns oo and u. Students can identify the important ideas in a text. Students can describe the connection between a series of scientific ideas in a text. Students can use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing. Students can retell a story with relative facts and details. | RF2.3b RF2.4a |
Unit 4 pg 54-83 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 22 | Soil Burrowing Animals | Students can read and identify words with diphthongs ou, ow, oi, and oy. Students can read and comprehend a variety of informational texts. Students can use suffixes to figure out the meaning of words. Students can use comparative adjectives in their writing. Students can distinguish the meaning among closely related verbs and adjectives. | RF2.3b RF2.4 |
Unit 4 pg 84-119 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 23 | The Night the Moon Fell A New House | Students can use common syllable patterns to decode words with open syllables. Students can visualize to help monitor their reading and improve comprehension. Students can explain how an image helps to clarify a text. Students can identify and adverb and use it correctly in their writing. Students can use different mediums to write. | RF2.3c RF2.4c |
Unit 4 pg 120-153 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 24 | The First Tortilla Wind | Students can identify and read vowel digraphs oo, ue, ew, and ui. Students can use prefixes to help figure out the meaning of words. Students can summarize the beginning, middle, and end of a story. Students can write using a variety of adverbs. | RF2.3b RF2.4a |
Unit 4 pg 154-187 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 25 | Teacher’s Choice Review | Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content. | Review |
N/A | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 26 | Responsibility | Fire Fighter! Firefighting Teamwork | Students can identify and read words with the suffixes –ly, -ful, -er, -or, and –ish. Students can describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text. Students can identify and use the correct pronouns in their writing. Students can use past experiences or gather information to create a written response. | RF2.3d RF2.4 |
Book 2.2 Unit 5 pg 188-221 |
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| Week 27 | Carl the Complainer Saturday | Students can identify and read words with the prefixes un-, re-, pre-, dis-. Student can describe how words and phrases provide rhythm in a poem. Students can use evidence from the story to support their answers. Students can use past experiences or gather information to create a written response. | RF2.3d RF2.4b |
Unit 5 pg 222-255 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 28 | Bad Dog, Dodger! How to Train Your Puppy | Students can identify and read the consonant patterns kn, wr, gn, and mb. Students can describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. Students can summarize a procedural text and give directions. Students can use a dictionary or glossary to help classify words. | RF2.3d RF2.4b |
Unit 5 pg 256-287 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 29 | Horace and Morris but mostly Dolores Good Kicking | Students can identify and read consonant patterns ph, gh, ck, and ng. Students can describe a character and their reaction to a plot event. Students can use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root. Students use the correct pronoun when writing. | RF2.3f RF2.4b |
Unit 5 pg 288-323 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 30 | The Signmaker’s Assistant Helping Hand | Students can identify and read words with vowel patterns aw, au, and al. Students can use an organizer to determine the main idea of a story. Students can use a dictionary or glossary to determine the meaning of a word. Students can use contractions when writing. | RF2.3b RF2.3e |
Unit 5 pg 324-357 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 31 | Teacher’s Choice Review | Students can reflect on the unit’s learning and review any skills or content. | Review |
N/A | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 32 | Traditions | Just Like Josh Gibson How Baseball Began | Students can identify and read words with inflected endings like –ed and –ing. Students can compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. Students can capitalize holidays, product names, and geographic names. | RF2.3 RF2.3b |
Book 2.2 Unit 6 pg 358-391 |
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| Week 33 | Red, White, and Blue: The Story of the American Flag You’re a Grand Old Flag | Students can identify and read abbreviations. Students can identify the main topic of a text as well as the main topic of each paragraph in a text. Students can identify the author’s purpose. Students can describe how words can make a rhythm in poetry. | RF2.3 RF2.4 |
Unit 6 pg 392-425 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 34 | A Birthday Basket for Tía Family Traditions: Birthdays | Students can identify and read the final syllables –tion, -ture, and –ion. Students can ask themselves questions while reading to support comprehension. Students can listen to a description and ask for clarification to deepen their understanding. Students can utilize different media in reading and writing. | RF2.3 RF2.4a |
Unit 6 pg 426-457 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 35 | Cowboys Cowboy Gear | Students can identify and read the suffixes –ness, -less, -able, and –ible. Students can describe the order of events in a text. Students can compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. Students can write using commas in a series. | RF2.3 RF2.3b |
Unit 6 pg 458-495 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 36 | Grace for President Home Sweet Home | Students can read and identify prefixes mis-, mid-, micro-, and non-. Students can find facts and details in a text. Students can use a dictionary or glossary to find the meaning of a word. Students can compare formal and informal uses of English. Students can write a persuasive statement. | RF2.3a RF2.3d |
Unit 6 pg 496-529 | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 37 | Teacher’s Choice Review | Students can review key concepts from Grade 2 ELA. | Review |
N/A | Lesson Plans | Resources | |
| Week 38 | Review | Teacher’s Choice Review | Students can review key concepts from Grade 2 ELA. | Review |
N/A | Lesson Plans | Resources |