Notes

Essential Question: What skills do The students need to understand literature?
Learning Targets
1. The students will be able to ask and answer questions to comprehend and monitor understanding, and identify key details. (RL.2.1)
2. The students will be able to recount stories and determine the central message, lesson, or moral of fables, folktales, and stories from diverse cultures. (RL.2.2)
3. The students will be able to describe the characters and their challenges and responses from major events in a story. (RL.2.3)
Essential Question: What skills do The students need to interpret and investigate literature?
Learning Targets
1. The students will be able to identify and describe examples of an author’s use of words and phrases to create rhythm and meaning. (RL.2.4)
2. The students will be able to recognize story structure, retell a beginning and ending of a story, and describe the purpose of a story’s introduction and conclusion. (RL.2.5)
3. The students will be able to explain which point of view is being represented at a specific point in a text and explain differences in points of view between characters. (RL.2.6)
4. The students will be able to use different voices to represent characters while reading dialogue aloud. (RL.2.6)
5. The students will be able to access print or digital text and explain and support their thinking about characters, setting, and plot based on information from text and illustrations. (RL.2.7)
6. The students will be able to compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story including discussing basic story elements, author’s viewpoint, and the impact of culture. (RL.2.9)
Essential Question: What skills do The students need to understand complex literature independently?
Learning Targets
1. The students will be able to make meaning from difficult stories and poetry. (RL.2.10)
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2. The students will be able to engage with and appreciate appropriately complex texts. (RL.2.10)
Reading Informational Text
Essential Question: How will the students show their understanding of informational texts?
Learning Targets
1. The students will be able to ask and answer questions and identify key details to comprehend and monitor understanding. (RI.2.1)
2. The students will be able to understand and use who, what, where, when, why, and how to ask questions about key details. (RI.2.1)
3. The students will be able to use original language to answer question about key details. (RI.2.1)
4. The students will be able to identify the relationship between the big idea of an entire text and main ideas of each paragraph of a multiparagraph text. (RI.2.2)
5. The students will be able to describe connections between ideas in a text and apply this skill to historical, scientific, and technical texts. (RI.2.3)
Essential Question: How will the students use various text features to locate key facts or information?
Learning Targets
1. The students will be able to use features of a text or a dictionary (online or print) to identify and determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases. (RI.2.4)
2. The students will be able to use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text. (Ex: glossaries, indexes, subheadings, captions) (RI.2.5)
3. The students will be able to identify the main purpose of a text. (RI.2.6)
Essential Question: How will the students integrate visual and print information to clarify understanding?
Learning Targets
1. The students will be able to explain how images contribute to, and clarify understanding of, a text. (RI.2.7)
2. The students will be able to identify an author’s point(s) (RI.2.8)
3. The students will be able to compare and contrast two or more texts about the same topic by discussing the most important point of each text. (RI.2.9)
4. The students will be able to make meaning from difficult informational texts. (RI.2.10)
5. The students will be able to engage with, and appreciate appropriately complex texts. (RI.2.10)
Reading Foundational Skills
Essential Question: How do the students apply phonics and word recognition skills to identify unknown words?
Learning Targets
1. The students will be able to recognize and read short, long, and common vowel teams in words. (RF.2.3)
2. The students will be able to read and decode two-syllable words by following basic patterns and breaking the words into syllables. (RF.2.3)
3. The students will be able to read words with common prefixes and suffixes. (RF.2.3)
4. The students will be able to read and comprehend words that look the same but sound different and vice-versa. (RF.2.3)
Essential Question: How does fluency increase comprehension?
Learning Targets
1. The students will be able to read with purpose and understanding. (RF.2.4)
2. The students will be able to read orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression. (RF.2.4)
3. The students will be able to use context to aid in word recognition. (RF.2.4)
Speaking and Listening
Essential Question: How will the students engage in conversation about grade appropriate topics and texts?
Learning Targets
1. The students will be able to listen attentively, take turns speaking, and add to conversations. (SL.2.1)
2. The students will be able to link their comments to the remarks of others, converse in small and large groups, and ask for more information. (SL.2.1)
3. The students will be able to extract key ideas or details from text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. (SL.2.2)
Essential Question: How do the students summarize an experience using appropriate expression?
Learning Targets
1. The students will be able to tell a story or recount an experience. (SL.2.4)
2. The students will be able to use appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details. (SL.2.4)
3. The students will be able to speak audibly and use coherent sentences to provide clarification. (SL.2.4, SL.2.6)
4. The students will be able to create a drawing or visual display that provides clarification about a story or recounted experience. (SL 2.5)