| Grade 2 Unit 7: Great Readers Think Critically About Books | |||||
| Essential Questions | Content | Standards CCSS | Common Core Resources | Mentor Texts | Assessment |
| How do great readers think critically about books? What is persuasive writing? |
Shared Reading: Responding to Characters, Evaluating Nonfiction, Engaging with Books, Identifying and Evaluating the Theme of the Book Phonics and Vocabulary: dipthongs, descriptive words, vowel patterns, consonant blends inflected endings, abbreviations, suffixes, prefixes, high frequency words, introduction, usage and development of new vocabulary words Shared Writing: Writing Teacher's Guide Persuasive Letter, Writing to a Prompt Write Habits (Common Core Edition) Persuasive Writing Opinion Letter, Opinion Statement Conventions/LPS: Adjectives, Commas in Compound Sentences, Adverbs | RL.2.1 RL.2.2 RL.3.3 RL.2.5 RL.2.6 RL.2.10 RI.2.1 RI.3.2 RI.2.3 RI.2.5 RI.2.6 RI.2.7 RI.2.10 RF.2.3 RF.2.4 W.2.8 SL.2.2 SL.2.4 L.2.5 | *GHGR Shared Reading Teacher's Guide *GHGR Planning and Implementation Guide * GHGR Reader's Theater Anthology *GHGR Assessment Handbook *Teacher Resource CDs * GHGR Decodeable Readers *Leveled Library (Guided Reading) *GHGR Write Habits (Common Core Edition) Rubrics and Supplemental Support *GHGR Writing Teacher's Guide *Conference Card *Writing Teacher Resource CD (rubrics) *Phonics and Vocabulary Teacher's Guide *Words Their Way *Continuum of Literacy Learning | Animal Look Alikes; Don't Forget Fun; "Dear Seth" A Letter to Amy; Dear Mr. Blueberry; Dear Juno; My Grandmother's Patchwork Quilt ; Ants at Work; His Majesty the King; "Dear Class" Blueberries for Sal; Table for Two; Hooray, a Pinata! | *F&P Benchmark (beginning, middle and end of year) *Reading Writing Portfolio (Fall and Spring Writing Sample) Assessment Handbook: *Running Record (3 times per year between benchmarks) *Retelling Rubric(Oral) *Reading Log *Story Frame *Text Frame *Early Reading Behavior Checklist (AIS/RTI) *Performance-Based Assessment *Checklist of Good Habits (AIS/RTI) |
