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Grade 2: Module 1: Overview
Module-at-a-Glance
Unit 1: Building Our Background Knowledge: Schools and Their Importance
Instructional Focus
■ Building background knowledge: What do I already know about school?
■ Focused read-aloud: “What Does School Mean to You?”: What is school, and why are
schools important?
■ Focused read-aloud: The Dot: What is school, and why are schools important?
■ Recording our thinking in the What Is School? notebook
■ Practicing our discussion norms
■ Close read-aloud: The Invisible Boy: Ask and answer questions about how the little boy feels
in di erent parts of the text
■ Responding to text through writing: Using details from the text to describe the boy’s
feelings
■ Practicing our discussion norms
CCS Standards
■ RL.2.1, RL.2.2, RL.2.3, RL.2.7, RL.2.7, RI.2.1, RI.2.6, W.2.2, W.2.8, SL.2.1, SL.2.1a, L.2.4
Assessments
■ Unit 1 Assessment: Writing in Response to The Invisible Boy (RL.2.1, RL.2.3, RL.2.7)
Unit 2: Reading and Writing Informational Texts: Challenges in Going to School
Instructional Focus
■ Close read-aloud: O to Class: Research and note-taking of sections
■ Informative Writing; Writing about schools from O to Class
■ Setting up writing partners
■ Continued research and note-taking of sections from O to Class
■ Continued Informative Writing: Writing about a school from O to Class
■ Readers Theater: Practicing and presenting plays about schools from O to Class
CCS Standards
■ RF.2.4, RI.2.1, RI.2.2, W.2.2, W.2.8, SL.2.1, SL.2.1a, SL.2.1b, SL.2.1c, SL.2.3, L.2.2, L.2.4
Assessments
■ Unit 2 Assessment: Reading and Writing about Schools around the World (RI.2.1, W.2.2)
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