Welcome to Second Grade Curriculum Night! Piney Grove Elementary School

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Welcome to Second GradeCurriculum Night!Piney
Grove Elementary School
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What to expect in Math?

• Memorize Addition/Subtraction Facts - fluently
• Problem Solving (word problems)
• Regrouping 3 digit addition and subtraction
• Fractions
• Telling Time to the 5 minutes
• Graphing Pictographs and reading graphs
• Venn Diagrams
• Patterns (shapes, , constant and growing s)
• Number Sense and Place Value
• -www.firstinmath.com great practice and
  enrichment

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Science Social Studies

• Science and Social Studies will be a graded
  subject on the report card this year.
• Big Topics in Science
• Changes in Matter
• Sound
• Weather
• Life Cycles
• Big Topics in Social Studies
• Citizenship
• Communities
• Kenya
• Japan

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Reading isComprehension, Accuracy Fluency

• Comprehension
• -Students understand what they read
• Accuracy
• -Students can read the words correctly.
• -Word Study
• Fluency
• -Students can accurately read, with expression
  and understand what they read.

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Reading at School

• Shared Reading
• -whole class with second grade level text
• Guided Reading
• -small group, leveled books, students are taught
  at their instructional level
• Read Aloud
• -we are expanding vocabulary, increasing book
  language, making connections between texts,
  modeling reading strategies
• Silent Reading
• -students read by themselves
• Partner Reading
• -students read with a partner

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Fiction Nonfiction

• Fiction Text
• -Characters -Problem -Authors Message
• -Setting -Solution -Connections to other
  literature
• -Major Events
• Nonfiction Text
• -Main Idea -Summarize
• -Organization of Text -Authors Message
• - Remember Key Vocabulary -Connections to other
  literature

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How can I help my child read?

• Dont let your child get frustrated!
• -Be positive
• -Choose the just right book
• -Read aloud to your child
• -Sing songs (be sure to have a copy of the
  lyrics)
• -You read a page, your child reads the same page
• -Reread books
• -Paired Reading (The Fluent Reader, Rasinski,
  2003)
• Reading is just like sports. You have to
  practice a lot to be successful.

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Word StudyAdapted from Words Their Way by
Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Shane
Templeton, and Francine Johnston

• What Is It?
• Assessing students spelling to determine what
  developmental spelling stage they are in
• Studying words that are appropriate for their
  developmental spelling stage
• Grouping students for word study based on their
  developmental spelling stage
• Studying words through comparing and contrasting
  word features and discovering consistent patterns
  in words

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• Stages of Spelling Development Among Second
  Graders
• Stage 1 Emergent Stage
• Random letters, scribbles, and some letters

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• Stage 2 Letter Name- Alphabetic Stage
• Use the names of letters to write the sounds
  they want to represent
• -Early letter-name alphabetic stage
• use mostly consonants usually only
  represent
• the first and last sound in a word (ex
  when is
• spelled YN)
• - Middle to late letter name-alphabetic stage
• master most beginning and end consonants in
• words use but confuse short vowels, but
  correctly spell long vowels that say
  their name can segment and represent most
  sounds heard in one-syllable words begin to
  represent blends correctly (ex miss is
  spelled mes great is spelled grat)

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• Stage 3 Within Word Pattern Stage
• Read and spell many words correctly
• Correctly spell most single-syllable short vowel
  words blends (pl, cr, st, etc.), digraphs (sh,
  ch, wh, th), and pre-consonantal nasals (ex
  camp, hunt, land)
• Study chunks of letter sequences or vowel
  patterns within single syllable words (ex team,
  bruise, vein)

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• Stage 4 Syllables and Affixes Stage
• Have mastered all of the previous spelling stages
• Ready to spell syllable juncture patterns in
  words that contain more than one syllable (ex
  supplies, increase)

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• Word Study Strategies
• Picture Sorts- putting pictures into category
  columns by initial sounds, consonant blends or
  digraphs, rhyming families, or vowel sounds
• Word Sorts- putting word cards into category
  columns based on sound and/ or spelling pattern
• Writing Sorts- writing words in columns according
  to the words consonant or vowel sound and/ or
  spelling pattern
• Word Hunts- hunting for words in books and their
  writing that contain the same sounds and/ or
  spelling patterns in the words they are studying

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• How Can Word Study Help Your Child?
• Comparing, contrasting, and analyzing words help
  students organize what they know about words and
  form generalizations about words that they can
  use to decode new words when they read, and spell
  words when they write
• Enables students to construct their own word
  knowledge for reading and writing in a systematic
  way that is developmentally appropriate for their
  stage of spelling, and makes sense to them

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Second Grade Writing RubricAdapted from the
WSFCS K-2 Writing Rubric

• Early Developing (Below Grade Level level 2 for
  the first quarter level 1 beginning the second
  quarter)
• -writes about familiar topics and ideas
• -writes left to right across several lines
• -writes short, patterned, repetitive sentences
  about a single idea
• -uses more oral language than formal language
• -writes familiar words and word wall words
  correctly
• -uses letter sound relationships to spell
  unfamiliar words (letter name-alphabetic stage of
  spelling)
• -uses capital letters for names and the
  beginning of sentences

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• Developing (Level 3 at grade level for the
  first quarter Level 2 below grade level
  beginning the second quarter)
• -composes several sentences related to a topic
• -begins to expand oral language to formal and
  literary language
• -uses some details which may be in a list-like
  form
• -writes many high frequency words correctly
• -uses temporary spelling which can be read by
  others
• -consistently uses spacing, capital letters,
  and end punctuation

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• Early Independent (Level 4 above grade level for
  the first quarter Level 3 at grade level
  beginning the second quarter)
• -writes a series of related ideas in an
  organized, step-by-step sequential manner
• -includes beginning, middle, and end with use of
  transition words/phrases (ex First of all, The
  next day, Finally)
• -uses varied sentence patterns and lengths (every
  sentence should not begin with the same word or
  have a short repetitive sentence structure)
• -begins to use vocabulary, ideas, and language
  from experiences and books
• -uses descriptive detail and some elaboration
  (writing helps reader visualize what is happening
  
• -writes most high frequency words correctly
• -uses more conventional than temporary spelling
• -uses correct capitalization and punctuation

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• Independent (Level 4 above grade level)
• -writes with clear organization, sense of
  audience, and sense of story that enables reader
  to visualize the story
• -connects related ideas smoothly and logically
  using transitional words/ phrases most of the
  time
• -expresses several ideas to add details and
  elaboration most of the time
• -uses vocabulary, ideas, and language from
  experiences and books
• -uses varied sentence patterns and lengths that
  develop and extend the topic
• -writes most words correctly with standard
  punctuation, capitalization, and sentence fluency
• -uses paragraphs consistently and appropriately

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Celebration for Success

• Replaces Panda Pride
• Will take place at school in the morning not at
  night
• Reading Accomplishments
• -four students per quarter
• Math Accomplishments
• -four students per quarter
• Perfect Attendance
• Good Citizens

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What do 3rd Grade teachers expect?

• Math
• -Addition/Subtraction Facts-memorized (know them
  by memory)
• -Practice multiplication facts 1-5
• Writing
• -Use complete sentences (nouns verbs)
• -Capital letters at the beginning of sentences
• - Capitalize Proper Nouns
• -Correct punctuation at the end of sentences
• Be Independent Workers
• -Write down homework assignments in agenda
• -Homework is their responsibility
• -Walk to class and unpack their own back pack
• -Stay in seats and raise hands

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Other Information

• A computer is available in Room 301 for parents
  to use.

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Questions?
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