Reading Timeline
2nd Nine Weeks
Task
Focus
Standard
Essential Questions
1 *Elements of Fables *Retelling
ELACC2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
ELACC2RL5: Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
ELACC2RL7: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
ELACC2SL2: Recount or describe key ideas or details from written texts read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
What are the basic elements of fables?
How can I identify themes, lessons, and morals in fables and folktales?
How can I retell stories, fables, and folktales?
2 *Story structure (beginning) *Retelling
*Characters, setting, plot
ELACC2RL5: Discuss the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
ELACC2RL7: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
ELACC2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
What is story structure and how does it help me as a reader?
How do illustrations and words help me to understand a story’s characters, setting, and plot?
How can I retell stories, fables, and folktales? 3 *Characters
*Retelling
ELACC2RL5: Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
ELACC2RL3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. ELACC2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
What is story structure and how does it help me as a reader?
How do readers identify and develop their understanding of a character?
How can I retell stories, fables, and folktales? 4 *Story Structure
(problem/solution) *Retelling
ELACC2RL5: Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
ELACC2RL3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. ELACC2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
What is story structure and how does it help me to find the problem and solution in a story?
How do characters in a story respond to major events and challenges?
How can I retell stories, fables, and folktales? How can I identify themes, lessons, and morals in fables and folktales?
5 *Story Structure (cause/effect and problem/solution) *Retelling
ELACC2RL5: Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
ELACC2RL3: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
ELACC2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
What is story structure and how does it help me find cause and effect relationships in a story?
What is story structure and how does it help me to find the problem and solution in a story?
How do characters in a story respond to major events and challenges?
How can I retell stories, fables, and folktales? 6 *Word Meaning (synonyms and
adjectives)
*Characters, setting, plot *Retelling
ELACC2RL7: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot
ELACC2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
ELACC2L5: Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
b. Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (e.g., toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (e.g.’ thin, slender, skinny, scrawny).
ELACC2L1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
How do I determine shades of meaning among closely related adjectives?
How do illustrations and words help to understand a story’s characters, setting, and plot?
How can I retell stories, fables, and folktales? How can I identify themes, lessons, and morals in fables and folktales?
e. Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
7 *Retelling *Story Structure
ELACC2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
ELACC2RL5: Discuss the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
ELACC2RI7: Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.
ELACC2SL1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
How can I retell stories, fables, and folktales? What is story structure and how does it help me as a reader?
How do pictures, images, and diagrams help me to understand a text?
8 *Story Structure (problem/solution) *Retelling
ELACC2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
ELACC2RL5: Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
ELACC2RL7: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot
What is story structure and how does it help me to find the problem and solution in a story?
How can I identify themes, lessons, and morals in fables and folktales?
9 *Story structure (ending) *5Ws and 1H
*Retelling
ELACC2RL5: Discuss the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
ELACC2RL2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
ELACC2RL1: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding key details in a text.
ELACC2SL3: Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
What is story structure and how does it help me as a reader?
How can I retell stories, fables, and folktales? How does asking and answering questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how help readers understand key details in a story?
10 *Retelling Stories
*Culminating Activity ELACC2RL2: determine their central message, lesson, or moral. Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and
ELACC2RL5: Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
ELACC2RL7: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, and plot.
ELACC2SL4: Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
How can I retell stories, fables, and folktales? How do illustrations and words help me to understand a story’s characters, setting, and plot?
11 *Author’s Purpose
*Supporting Reasons/Details
ELACC2RI4: Determine the meanings of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.
ELACC2RI6: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
ELACC2RI8: Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
ELACC2RI5: Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
How do I find the meanings of words or phrases in a text?
How do I identify the main purpose of a text? How do reasons support specific points the author makes in a text?
How do I use text features to find information or facts in a text?
12 *Images (diagrams) *Word Meaning *Context Clues
ELACC2RI7: Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.
ELACC2RI4: Determine the meanings of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.
ELACC2L4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibility from an array of strategies.
a. Use sentence-level context as a clue to the manning of a word or phrase.
How do pictures, images, and diagrams help me to understand a text?
How do I find the meanings of words or phrases in a text?
ELACCRI5: Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
13 *Retelling
*Compare/contrast *Author’s Purpose (purpose and reasons)
ELACC2RL4: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
ELACC2RI9: Compares and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
ELACC2RI6: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
How can I compare and contrast the most important points of two texts on the same topic?
How can I retell stories, fables, and folktales? How do I identify the main purpose of a text? 14 *Author’s Purpose
*Supporting reasons/details *Poetry
ELACC2RL4: Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
ELACC2RI6: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
ELACC2RI8: Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
ELACC2W8: Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
How do words or phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song?
How do I identify the main purpose of a text? How do reasons support specific points the author makes in a text?
How can I use information I’ve learned to answer questions?
15 *Diagrams *Text Features *Point of View
ELACC2RL4: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
ELACC2RL6: Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
ELACC2RI7: Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.
ELACCRI5: Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
How can I recognize differences in the points of view of characters?
How do pictures, images, and diagrams help me to understand a text?
How do I use text features to find information or facts in a text?
16 *Diagrams *Text Features *Story Structure
ELACC2RL4: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
ELACC2RI7: Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.
ELACCRI5: Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
ELACC2RL5: Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
How do pictures, images, and diagrams help me to understand a text?
How do I use text features to find information or facts in a text?
What is story structure and how does it help me as a reader?
17 *Informational Writing
*Informational Comprehension ELACC2W2: facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.Write information/expository texts in which they introduce a topic, use
ELACC2W7: Participate in shared research and writing projects.
ELACC2W8: Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
What steps do I take to research and write about a topic?
How can I use information I’ve learned to answer questions?
