Second Grade Weekly Study Skills
Unit 3, Week 1 (Pearl and Wagner: Two Good Friends)
Big Idea/Big Question
(This is the theme of our unit in class.)
Creative Ideas: What does it mean to be creative?
Question of the Week
(This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
When does support from others help with a creative idea?
Phonics Skills
(These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)
Long e: e, ee, ea, y
Spelling Patterns and associated Words
(These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Long e: e, ee, ea, y
deep easy feet leave party read seat sleep team teeth wheel windy
High Frequency Words
(These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)
guess pretty science shoe village watch won
Story Words
(These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
electricity robot trash wad
Oral Vocabulary
(Try using these words in your conversations at home.)
construct contraption daydream foolproof project scrap sidekick unique
Handwriting Practice
(Students can practice the writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
Zz, Xx and
Word Spacing
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Second Grade Weekly Study Skills
Unit 3, Week 2 (Dear Juno)
Big Idea/Big Question
(This is the theme of our unit in class.)
Creative Ideas: What does it mean to be creative?
Question of the Week
(This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
In what creative ways do we communicate?
Phonics Skills
(These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)
Long o: o, oa, ow
Spelling Patterns and associated Words
(These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Long o: o, oa, ow
ago bowl float goat hold most open show slow toad toast told
High Frequency Words
(These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)
answer company faraway parents picture school wash
Story Words
(These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
envelope persimmons photograph smudged
Oral Vocabulary
(Try using these words in your conversations at home.)
correspond cove deaf footprint imitate postage transport sign language
Handwriting Practice
(Students can practice the writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
Numbers 1 – 10
Number Formation
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Second Grade Weekly Study Skills
Unit 3, Week 3 (Anansi Goes Fishing)
Big Idea/Big Question
(This is the theme of our unit in class.)
Creative Ideas: What does it mean to be creative?
Question of the Week
(This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
How can creative thinking solve a problem?
Phonics Skills
(These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)
Compound Words
Spelling Patterns and associated Words
(These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Compound Words:
backyard basketball bathtub bedtime birthday driveway mailbox raindrop riverbank someone something weekend
High Frequency Words
(These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)
been believe caught finally today tomorrow whatever
Story Words
(These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
delicious justice lazy weave
Oral Vocabulary
(Try using these words in your conversations at home.)
boast consume contentment cure gloat incident prey shrewd snicker
Handwriting Practice
(Students can practice the writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
Manuscript to Cursive
Letter Formation
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Second Grade Weekly Study Skills
Unit 3, Week 4 (Rosa and Blanca)
Big Idea/Big Question
(This is the theme of our unit in class.)
Creative Ideas: What does it mean to be creative?
Question of the Week
(This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
When does a creative idea lead to a surprise?
Phonics Skills
(These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)
Long i: i, ie, igh, y
Spelling Patterns and associated Words
(These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Long i: i, ie, igh, y
blind bright child cry find flight fly myself right sky spider wild
High Frequency Words
(These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)
alone buy daughters half many their youngest
Story Words
(These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
chiles luckiest tortillas
Oral Vocabulary
(Try using these words in your conversations at home.)
abundant assist beam dismay efficient forever generous situation
Handwriting Practice
(Students can practice the writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
Manuscript to Cursive Letters a, d, c, n, m, and x/ Letter Formation
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Second Grade Weekly Study Skills
Unit 3, Week 5 (A Weed Is a Flower)
Big Idea/Big Question
(This is the theme of our unit in class.)
Creative Ideas: What does it mean to be creative?
Question of the Week
(This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
Where do creative ideas come from?
Phonics Skills
(These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)
Comparative Endings
Spelling Patterns and associated Words
(These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Comparative Endings
busier busiest fatter fattest happier happiest hotter hottest smaller smallest sooner soonest
High Frequency Words
(These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)
clothes hours money neighbor only question taught
Story Words
(These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
agriculture college greenhouse laboratory
Oral Vocabulary
(Try using these words in your conversations at home.)
accomplish excel opportunity original process research scientist unusual
Handwriting Practice
(Students can practice the writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
Letters o, w, b, v, z, s, r, and f
Letter Formation
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Unit 3 Week 6 is a review week of the above skills. A Unit test will be given.