Author: Heidi Legner

St. Mary’s School
2nd Grade Curriculum
414 N Main Street
Pontiac, IL 61764
815-844-6585

Second Grade Curriculum Map
Language Arts
Review word analysis techniques, long vowels, digraphs, consonant
clusters, vowel pairs, blends, and
r controlled words.
Develop comprehension skills
Build strategies for comparing,
contrasting, predicting, inferring,
and drawing conclusions.
Identifying cause and effect.
Summarizing.
Recognizing topics, main ideas,
and details.
Reading appealing anthologies
and phonics level books.
Developing critical thinking skills.
Writing dictated words and
sentences.
Writing paragraphs.
Practicing spelling and vocabulary.
Learning rules of punctuation.

Religion and Character Formation
Foster the virtues of faith, hope, charity, kindness, honesty, respect, and responsibility.
Listen to Bible stories & stories of saints.
Learn of God’s great love for us.
Learn of Jesus’ life on earth and
ascension into heaven.
Prepare and participate in liturgies.
Identify the Seven Sacraments.
Identity and memorize the Ten
Commandments.
Memorize Bible verses.
Know and participate in the
Sacrament of Reconciliation.
Know and participate in the
Sacrament of the Eucharist.
Math
Adding and subtracting 2- and 3- digit numbers with and without re grouping.
Recognize, adding, and subtracting money.
Patterns.
Measuring lengths, widths, weight, capacity, and temperature.
Problem-solving strategies.
Telling time in 5-minute increments.
Comparing numbers.
Identifying place value.
Identify and compare shapes.
Read graphs and charts.
Explore multiplication.

Social Studies
Types of communities.
Solving problems in our
communities.
Our earth’s geography and
resources.
America’s first people-explorers, Native Americans, and pilgrims.
Economics-wants, needs, goods, and services.
Our government and how it
operates.
America’s symbols and holidays.
American heroes and historic
figures.
Science
Life science of plants and animals.
Earth science: land, air, water, weather, fossils and dinosaurs.
Physical science: matter, energy,
forces, motion, and sound.
Space: planets and the Solar
System
Technology: ways we use
technology and how it’s changed.

Revised May 2016