Grade 2 Curriculum Overview

Math

• Basic number concepts to 1000

• 2 and 3-digit addition and subtraction with and without regrouping

• Problem solving

• Telling time

• Counting money

• Critical thinking skills 

Language Arts

• Basic phonic skills

• Spelling strategies

• Understanding the writing process-drafting/revising/editing

• Writing a personal arrative

• Writing an animal research report

• Writing a descriptive narrative

• Writing a pourquoi tale

Reading

• Reading fiction and non-fiction texts

• Use multiple reading strategies to understand a text

• Identify basic story elements in a text — characters, setting, problem, solution

• Read and analyze pourquoi tales

• Read and analyze fairy tales and compare them to their fractured version

• Identify facts and opinions in a nonfiction text

• Identify nonfiction text features in a text

• Gather information from a text

Social Studies

• Geography — map skills

• Culture — holidays around the world

• Native Americans

• Parts of a community

Science

• Nutrition and digestion

• Soil science

• Plant life cycle