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Grade 2 — Year Plan

Goal by June: Fluent decodable → early chapter books; add/sub within 100; intro arrays; write a paragraph; understand community economics basics

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Year outcomes

Literacy

• - Vowel teams (ai, ay, ea, ee, oa, ow, oo)
• - R-controlled vowels mastery
• - Soft c/g; common suffixes (-ing, -ed)
• - Oral reading fluency ~100 wpm target
• - Paragraph writing (topic sentence + 3 details)

Math

• - Add/sub within 100 with regrouping
• - Intro multiplication as equal groups
• - Fractions as equal shares (halves/thirds/fourths)
• - Measure; bar graphs
• - Money to $5; word problems

Science

• - Habitats; push/pull; water cycle; rocks/soil; healthy body (food, sleep, exercise — factual)

STEM (included)

• - Science: habitats, push/pull, water cycle, rocks/soil
• - Technology: bar graphs; instructions another person can follow
• - Engineering: push-pull vehicle — improve the design

History / Geography

• - Native peoples of your US region (age-appropriate factual overview)
• - Early explorers & settlements as timeline
• - Map scales; compass rose
• - Goods vs services

Life Skills

• - Budget $5 pretend store; follow 3-step recipe; fold clothes; write email/letter with parent

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36-week overview

| Weeks | Literacy | Math |

|-------|----------|------|

| 1–4 | Vowel teams ai/ay/ea/ee | Add within 100 no regroup |

| 5–8 | oa/ow/oo; fluency | Regrouping addition |

| 9–12 | R-controlled ar/or/er/ir/ur | Subtraction regrouping |

| 13–16 | Suffixes -ed/-ing | Equal groups → × intro |

| 17–20 | Soft c/g; spelling rules | Arrays & skip count |

| 21–24 | Multisyllable CVCe | Fractions equal shares |

| 25–28 | Comprehension strategies | Money & data |

| 29–32 | Writing workshop | Mixed operations |

| 33–36 | Reading stamina | Mastery |

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Sample — Week 9, Day 1 (R-controlled ar)

Decode: car, farm, dark, start, garden

Bar model math preview: “12 apples, eat 5, how many left?” draw bar

Life skill: Sort coins into piles; total a handful with parent check

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Full week scripts

Open weeks/week-01 — week-01.md through week-36.md (index in weeks/README.md).

Regenerate: python3 tools/generate_grades_1_5_weeks.py