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Page 1: Central Idea - pypgess / FrontPagepypgess.pbworks.com/f/Grade+2+map+with+science+2…  · Web viewFairy Tales. Humorous tales. ... Word play/Puns ( including homonyms) Comparatives

German European School Singapore Curriculum Map 2010-2011 Grade 2

UOI #1People can think and feel

differently from each other

UOI #2Simple machines make work

easier

UOI #3Protecting oceans plays a vital

role in sustaining the environment.

UOI #4A nation has a history, culture and

location in the world

UOI #5The food choices we make have an impact on people and on the

environment

UOI #6Through creative arts, we can

express and interpret our ideas and feelings

Transdisciplinary Theme* Who We Are How the world works Sharing the Planet Where we are in place and time How we organize ourselves How we express ourselves

Dates 5 Weeks 6 Weeks 6 Weeks 6 Weeks 5 Weeks 9 WeeksKey and Related

Concepts

Learner Profile/Attitude

Lang

uage

Art

s

Reading Genres**

PoemsTraditional Literature Oxford guided poetry books (sets of 6)The one in the middle is a green Kangaroo. Judy Blume

Informational TextsIron Man Ted HughesOxford guided readers, Petey, Scrap man

NarrativesShort storiesFairy TalesHumorous tales

Memoirs/letterPostcards and lettersAddressesTraditional and cultural stories ( Creation tales, Asian tales)biographies

Functional WritingNewspaper articlesReports Charts and lists

Poems and limericksPlay scriptsNarratives

Long Term Goals( F&P)

Reading for comprehension.Using strategies to decipher unknown words.Reading with an awareness of punctuation, expression and intonation.Reading aloud/performance with an awareness of audience.Using a thesaurus.

Add new vocabulary words to known words and use them in discussion and writing.Use specific vocab to talk about text (index, contents, headings sub headings.)Make prediction using information from the text ( Iron Man)

Compare different versions of the same story, rhyme or traditional tale.Notice and understand the problem of a story and how it is solved.Infer characters feelings and motivations from description, what they do or say and what others think about them.Notice the writers use of language ( word choice etc.)Notice and remember the events of a story in sequence.Recognise and identify parts of stories such as beginning, series of events and endings.

Make connections to prior knowledge.Provide an oral summary of a text.Understand a biography as a story of a person’s life.Recognise and identify aspects of text structure (sequential order and layout)

Recognise how the writer and illustrator has placed ideas in the text and in the graphics.Recognise when texts are realistic, fantasy or true informational texts and read them differently as appropriate. h

Notice characters that have memorable traits and would be good for performance reading. Notice language that has potential for shared and performance reading.Self correct intonation, phrasing and pausing whilst reading aloud.When joining in on refrains or repetitive text mimic the teachers intonation and stress.Show intention of character’s intentions or feelings in the voice whilst reading.Make predictions as to what will happen next or what characters might do as preparation for reading.

Ongoing Long Term Goals(F&P)

Read with a high accuracy rateRead aloud with fluencyRecognise and use simple punctuation, and reflect it in the voice whilst reading.Track print left to right and top to bottom.Use high frequency words to monitor accuracy of reading and gain momentum.

Major Teaching Emphasis

(F.S.)

Continue to build students sight vocab including topic words.Read and re read a variety of informational text giving students the opportunity to do the same.Consolidate known comprehension strategies and teach additional strategies ( skimming and scanning etc.)

Teach students to make connections within texts using both explicit and implicit information, ( main ideas, supporting detail and sequences of key events.)Discuss how and why facts, characters, people or events are represented in a particular way by the author and illustrator. Continue to build students knowledge of different text forms ( purpose, structure, organisation and language features.)

Reading Strategies(F.S.)

PredictingSkimmingScanningDetermining importanceSelf questioning

UOI emphasisContinue to practice skills from Simple MachinesPredictingInferringReading onRe readingComparing

connecting

Writing Genres: Text Features

Poetry

Verses/verse structureRhymeRepetitionAlliterationImagery

Functional/ informational writing

Opening questionsBrief answersDiagramsLabelsHeadings/sub headings

Narrative

BeginningMiddleEndSettingCharacter

Memoir/Letters

Chronological connectivesdates in writing and figureseventsaddressesgreetings

Report Writing/non fiction

opening definitionlogically-ordered paragraphsdiagramsfiction and non-fiction charts

Play scripts

DialogueStage directionsValues and views in literatureParagraph structure

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Cause and effect, statementsLogical relationships

PlotDialogueParagraphing

closuresletter layout

Writing Skills

Writing sentencesBrainstorming ideasPlanning a poemDrafting a poemRevising a poemMaking an individual/ class anthology.

Labelling a diagramExtending sentencesBrainstorming key factsWriting notesDrafting questions and answersDrafting an explanationRevising an explanation

Completing a chartPlanning a storyWriting descriptions – settingsWriting descriptions – characterDrafting a storyRevising a storyPublishing a storyWriting with humour.Illustration of their own stories

Writing sentencesReading sentencesPlanning lettersQuestioningBrainstormingPlotting time linesDrafting a letterDrafting an account of eventsEditing a letter

Writing sentencesReading sentencesCompleting a chartBrainstormingPlanning a reportDrafting a reportRevising a report

Writing poetry in a given formWriting Illustration of their own stories.Writing with an awareness of audience.

Word Study

Rhyming wordsHomophonesAlliterationSimilesSynonymsComparatives

DefinitionsTechnical words

Word meaningDefinitionsWords indicating degree of intensityPlurals Suffixes

DatesQuestioning wordsForming the past tense

LabelsTechnical wordsHomonymsGender nouns

Rhyming wordshHomophonesAlliterationSimilesantonymsSynonymsWord play/Puns ( including homonyms) ComparativesWord meaningDefinitionsWords indicating degree of intensity

Grammar/Punctuation

Past tenseNouns/proper nounsAdjectives

Full stopsCapitol letters

Question (How what when why where)Question marksConnectivesImperative verbs ( first, next, then etc)Lists

Capitol lettersFull stopsExclamation marksQuestion marksCommasColon

AdjectivesNouns

Capitol lettersFull stopsExclamation marksQuestion marksCommasColonSpeech marksEllipses

Verb tensePronounsPast & present tense verbs in sentencesStatementsQuestions

Capitol lettersFull stopsExclamation marksQuestion marksCommasColonSpeech marksEllipses

SentencesVerbs in sentencesVerb ‘to be’Past and present tense

Capitol lettersFull stopsExclamation marksQuestion marksCommasColonSpeech marksEllipses

SentencesParagraphs

Capitol lettersFull stopsExclamation marksQuestion marksCommasColonSpeech marksEllipsesBrackets

Handwriting

Using the 3 handwriting linesLetter formation(c a d g o q)(r n m h b k p)

Using the 3 handwriting linesLetter formation(i l t u y j)(v w x)(s f z e)

Simple/common words – names etc Spelling words handwritten Spelling words handwritten in sentences

Spelling words handwritten in sentences

Listening/Speaking

Role playPoetry readingSocial interactionReading with punctuation, expression and intonation.

Presenting findings – oral presentations.

Presentation of research project Presentation of flow charts Play scripts and actingSharing jokes and limericks

Information Technology

Horton Hears a Who Researching marine animal

Mat

hem

atic

s

Strand Number Measurement Pattern and Function Data Handling/Measurement Pattern and Function Number/Shape and Space

Unit Topic

AssessmentStandardised beginning of year tasks

NumberPlace value to 1000EstimationOdd and even numbersOrdinal numbersSkip counting

Teacher Book Topic Assessment

Length/MassNon standard measuresStandard measures

Cm and mVocabulary to compare numbers ( longest/shortest etc)Using appropriate tools

Addition/subtraction IntroductionFacts to 20Vocabulary of addition and subtraction.Number patterns

Addition/Subtraction

Sun traction and addition to 20Additions/subtraction to 100Relationships between addition and subtraction.

Ongoing Daily Mental Maths Approximately 15 minutes per day to revise addition, subtraction,(and practice multiplication and division after it has been introduced.)Data Handling

ChanceProbabilityCollect , represent and interpret data

Temperature / maps and grids( UOI link)

Identify temperature using ‘CMaps and grids

TimeAnalogue and digital clocksCalendars and months of the yearIncrements of timePlace events on a timeline.

Multiplication/Division

Mental strategies Informal recordingSkip countingRepeated addition2, 3, 5 and 10 times tablesDivision and sharingEstimate feasibility

NumberFractions

Shape and Space

2D shapes3D shapesSymmetryVocabulary relatedTessellationTranslation and rotationPosition and anglesDirections

Science

Strand Not applicable Physical ScienceNature of ScienceNature of science

Life Sciences Mathematics link

Earth and Space

Nature of science

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Standard

Not applicable Understands forces and Motion.Understand the nature of scientific knowledge.Understands the nature of scientific inquiry.

Understands the structure and function of cells and organisms.

Understands relationships among organisms and their physical environment.

Understands the composition and structure or the universe and the earth’s place in it. Understand atmospheric processes and the water cycle.Understands the nature of scientific inquiry.

Benchmark

Not applicable Level 1(ii)Level 1(iv)Level 2 (v)Level 1 (i)Level 2 (i)Level 1 (i)Level 1(ii)Level 1 (iii)

Level 1 (i) (ii)Level 1 (i) Level 2(iv)Level 2 (v)

Level 1 (i) Level 1 (i)Level 1(ii)

Excursions

Under water worldFish dissectioniMax?

China town (sketching shop houses!)Little IndiaRed thread museumImages of Singapore - Sentosa

Possible visiting author??Play

*The TD Themes should be listed in chronological order as they are taught over the year**List specific titles of novels, short stories or poems, if knownNB: Areas which are INTEGRATED into units of inquiry are in bold text. Areas which are STAND ALONE are in regular text.