AISM Literary Focus Areas During PYP Units of Inquiry - 2016-2017

Grade 2
How We Organize How We Express How The World Where We Are In
Unit Who We Are Sharing The Planet
Ourselves Ourselves Works Place and Time
Informational; Poetry; Informational;
Narrative - Short Fiction Functional - How To; Narrative - Memoir;
Genre of Writing Functional - cards, Functional - Friendly Functional - email;
Test Answers Functional - Letters Functional - Invitation
invitations Letters Persuasive
Sentence Fluency Ideas Word Choice Organization Sentence Fluency Voice
Writing Traits
Organization Conventions Voice Ideas Word Choice Conventions
Determining the
Reading Strategy Visualization Inferences Asking Questions Making Connections Synthesizing
Important Ideas
Acrostic
Poetry
Cinquain
Phonics, Spelling & Word Study Interjections &
Nouns & Verbs &
Parts of Speech Adverbs & Pronouns Conjunctions Reinforce all Reinforce all Reinforce all
Writers workshop & home learning Adjectives
Prepositions
Homographs &
Word Meaning Homophones Contractions Synonyms & Antonyms Compound words Reinforce all Reinforce all

Syllables & Verb Plurals & endings for

Word Structure Possessives Base Words Prefixes & Suffixes Reinforce all
Endings adjectives
Simple Sentences
Sentence
(double nouns, double Compound Sentences Sentence Variety Reinforce all Reinforce all Reinforce all
Construction verbs)
Dolch Words &
All Year!
Words their way
Week 1-St & Ch
Week 2-Short A & Long Letter combinations for
A long vowel sounds: Vowel sounds with R
Word Study focus Week 3-Short E & Long 1-Ai 1-Ar
(phonemes) E 2-Ay 2-Er
Silent letter words Reinforce all Reinforce all
Home learning & guided reading Week 4-Short I & Long I 3-Ee 3-Ir
centers & morning meeting. Week 5-Short O & Long 4-Ea 4-Or
O 5-Oa 5-Ur
Week 6-Short U & Long 6-Ow
U