Second Grade

Curriculum Guide

PACING FOR THE YEAR

Theme 1

• Back to School
• Silly Stories

Theme 2

• Nature Walk
• Focus on Genre:  Poetry

Theme 3

• Around Town:  Neighborhood and Community
• Focus on Genre:  Fables

Theme 4

• Amazing Animals
• Focus on Genre:  Biography

Theme 5

• Family Time
• Focus on Genre:  Chapter Books

Theme 6

• Talent Show

Resource Documents

Program Documents

• Comprehensive, School-Wide Literacy Program
• Literacy Teaching/Learning Model
• Houghton-Mifflin Model
• Four-Block and Houghton Mifflin

Federal Publications

• Put Reading First
• Focus on Fluency

Virginia Documents

• Grade 3 Reading Blueprint
• Grade 2 Curriculum Framework
• Sample Lessons, Oral Language
• Sample Lessons, Reading
• Sample Lessons, Writing

Montgomery County Documents

• 2nd Grade SOL Card
• Phonics Card
• HM Expanded Spelling Word List
• High Frequency Word List
• Reading Structures
• Reading Strategies, expanded from DOE
• Writing Approaches
• Writing Strategies
• Oral Language Strategies
• Resource Suggestion Sheet

Elementary Curriculum Guide