UNITS OF STUDY IN READING, 3RD ED GR 2 CORE SET

The Units of Study in Reading for Grade 2 are built to remind students of all the incredible skills they learned in first grade and to transition them into the big kid work of being a second grader. 

In Unit 1, Becoming a Big Kid Reader, you’ll teach your students how to read with greater fluency and help them develop strategies to become efficient and flexible word solvers as they encounter trickier words. Throughout Unit 2, Becoming Experts, you’ll invite kids into the fascinating world of nonfiction reading, ushering them into the unit by suggesting that good readers of nonfiction are interested in everything. They’ll learn to read closely, with wide-awake attention to detail. At the start of Unit 3, Tackling Longer Words and Longer Books, you’ll ask for your students’ help in refurbishing your classroom library. Throughout this process, students will begin to work through more difficult words and will practice scooping up longer phrases. In Unit 4, Stepping into the World of the Story, you’ll invite students to think about the incredible power that reading has to take us on adventures, on field trips, to faraway places, and to familiar neighborhoods. Finally, in Unit 5, Growing Knowledge Together, you’ll amplify the importance of reading partnerships, helping your students talk and collabo­rate in new and more rigorous ways. Students will work independently and with reading groups to make sense of more challenging texts. By the end of Grade 2, students will have the solid foundation necessary to move into third grade and beyond.

Unit Titles

• Becoming a Big Kid Reader (Unit 1)
• Becoming Experts (Unit 2)
• Tackling Longer Words and Longer Books (Unit 3)
• Stepping into the World of the Story (Unit 4)
• Growing Knowledge Together (Unit 5)