This year, we will work through 6 reading and language arts units. Each unit is broken into 3 text sets. Each text set has an essential question that we will explore across multiple texts. Skills will be purposefully combined to support children's learning of texts that they read. For weekly ELAR updates, please see the Blog page.
Unit 1 Overview
Text Set 1 Essential Question: How are families around the world the same and different?
Text Set 2 Essential Question: How do friends depend on each other?
Text Set 3 Essential Question: What happens when families work together?
Unit 2 Overview
Text Set 1 Essential Question: How are offspring like their parents?
Text Set 2 Essential Question: What can animals in stories teach us?
Text Set 3 Essential Question: What do we love about animals?
Unit 2 Georgia Standards of Excellence:
2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
2RL3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
2RL6: Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
2RI2: Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
2RI3: Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
2RI6: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
2RI8: Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
2RI9: Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
2W2: Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section
Unit 3 Overview
Text Set 1 Essential Question: How can people help out their community
Text Set 2 Essential Question: What can we see in the sky?
Text Set 3 Essential Question: How do you express yourself?
Unit 3 Georgia Standards of Excellence
2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
2RL3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
2RL6: Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
2RI2: Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
2RI3: Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
2RI6: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
2RI8: Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
2RI9: Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
Unit 4 Overview
Text Set 1 Essential Question: How are kids around the world different?
Text Set 2 Essential Question: How does Earth change?
Text Set 3 Essential Question: What excites us about nature?
Unit 4 Georgia Standards of Excellence
2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
2RL3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
2RI2: Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
2RI3: Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
2RI6: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
2RI8: Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
2RI9: Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
Unit 5 Overview
Text Set 1 Essential Question: What do heroes do?
Text Set 2 Essential Question: What do good citizens do?
Text Set 3 Essential Question: Why are rules important?
Unit 5 Georgia Standards of Excellence
2RL3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
2RL6: Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
2RI2: Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
2RI6: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
2RI9: Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
Unit 6 Overview
Text Set 1 Essential Question: How do we use money?
Text Set 2 Essential Question: What do myths help us understand?
Text Set 3 Essential Question: Where can your imagination take you?
Unit 6 Georgia Standards of Excellence
2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
2RL3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
2RL6: Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
2RI2: Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
2RI6: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
2RI8: Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
2RI9: Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.