English Language Arts - Grade 2 - Writing - Standard 2 - 20 Weeks

Writing Standard 2: Writing Purposes and Resulting Genres

(1)	ELA.2.L.1.D	Students identify main ideas and supporting details, with assistance.
(1)	ELA.2.L.1.F	Students collect information, with assistance.
(1)	ELA.2.W.1.A	Students use two sources of information in writing a report.
(1)	ELA.2.W.1.B	Students take notes to record facts by following teacher directions, with assistance.
(1)	ELA.2.W.1.C	Students state a main idea and support it with facts, with assistance.
(1)	ELA.2.W.1.D	Students use organizational patterns, such as time/order, for expository writing.
(1)	ELA.2.W.1.E	Students connect personal experiences to new information from school subject areas, with assistance.
(1)	ELA.2.W.1.G	Students produce clear, well-organized, short reports to demonstrate understanding of a topic.
(1)	ELA.2.W.1.H	Students support explanations with evidence from text.
(1)	ELA.2.W.2.A	Students develop original literary texts that: create characters, simple plot, and setting, with assistance use rhythm and rhyme to create short poems and songs, with assistance use descriptive language
(1)	ELA.2.W.2.E	Students use resources such as personal experiences to stimulate own writing.
(1)	ELA.2.W.3.A	Students use prewriting tools, such as semantic webs and concept maps, to organize ideas and information.
(1)	ELA.2.W.3.B	Students state a main idea and provide supporting details from the text.
(1)	ELA.2.W.3.G	Students use details from stories or informational texts to predict events.

Performance Standards

Informing Others: Report or Informational Writing

By the end of the year, we expect 2nd grade students to be able to:

Have an obvious organizational structure (often patterned after chapter book headings);
Communicate big ideas, insights or theories that have been elaborated on or illustrated through facts, details, quotations, statistics and information;
Usually have a concluding sentence or section; and
Use diagrams, charts or illustrations as appropriate to the text.

Speaking and Listening
Kinds of Talk and Resulting Genres

Curricular Frameworks

Establish rituals and routines
Set up Writer's Workshop
Refer to Niagara Falls District ELA Pacing map
Poetry
Genre study of standardized testing allow 1 day per week during the last 8 weeks of school

Reading and Writing
Grade by Grade
(Standards Book)