Decatur City Schools
Pacing Guide
Second: Reading
Projected Pacing  (Feb. 19 - Mar. 16)
 
AL COS Standards Vocabulary Prerequisite Skills from State Suggested Materials/Resources Documentation Date(s) Taught Comments
    Curriculum Guide      
Phonemic Awareness          
Demonstrate phonological skills by  cover Objective 2.1.1: Open Court    
manipulating the sounds and words of window Demonstrate phonemic  Rigby     
the English language and identifying even awareness by isolating, deleting,      
syllables in two-and three-syllable words. city and adding phonemes      
(AL COS #1) together Objective 2.1.1:      
A.  Manipulate phonemes orally sun Distinguish between one- and two-      
  1.  rhyme life syllable words      
  2.  blend street        
  3.  substitute party        
  4.  omit suit        
  5.  delete Group 4c        
  6.  segment word, almost, thought,        
B.  Count, segment, and identify syllables in send, receive, pay,        
spoken words nothing, need, mean,         
Phonics late, half, fight,enough,        
Apply phonetic strategies to decode feel, during, gone, Objective: 2.2.1:      
unfamiliar and multi-syllable words, hundred,week, Produce sounds to match       
using grapho-phonemec clues and between, change, common letter combinations      
letter-sound correspondences, being,care,answer, Objective: 2.2.2:      
including diphthongs and digraphs. course,against Decode words with consonant       
(AL COS #2) (SAT10) Group 4d blends and letter combinations      
A.  Recognize and use onsets and rimes and  wear, Mr., side, poor, Objective 2.2.3:      
letter groups to read and spell known and  lost, outside,wind, Read regular one-syllable words      
unknown words Mrs., learn,held, and words with common word      
B.  Analyze, read and spell words using  front, built, family, parts      
consonants, consonants blends, short and  began, air, young,        
long vowels, digraphs, diphthongs, prefixes ago, world, airplane,        
and suffixes, ( AL COS) without, kill, ready,        
C.  Read phonetically regular two-syllable  stay, won't, paper        
words (AL COS)          
D. Correct word recognition errors (AL COS)      
E.  Spell sight words correctly, spell unfamiliar          
AL COS Standards Vocabulary Prerequisite Skills from State Suggested Materials/Resources Documentation Date(s) Taught Comments
words by using phonetic strategies, and use Curriculum Guide      
a dictionary to check spellings (AL COS)     Open Court    
F.  Double final consonants ( /ed/, /ing/, /y, ied/     Rigby     
G.  Position words, describe locations          
H. Homophones          
I.  Antonyms          
Fluency   Objective 2.5.1: Recognize 100% of      
Read with fluency passages containing   Dolch sight words for 2nd grade      
complex sentences, (AL COS #5) (SAT10)   Objective 2.5.2:  Read 70-90       
A.  Read 90-100 words per minute (AL COS)   words of connected, decodable       
B. Read with expression (AL COS)   text per minute with 100% accuracy      
C. Make self-corrections quickly and efficiently   Objective 2.5.3:  Read and reread      
(AL COS)   to increase familiarity      
    Objective 2.5.4:  Read complex      
    sentences with phrasing and expression      
    Objective 2.5.5: Use phrasing,      
    attending to ending punctuation      
    Objective 2.5.6: Read and self-      
    correct while reading      
Vocabulary          
Exhibit vocabulary skills by explaining   Objective 2.3.1: Identify common      
simple common antonyms and syno-   antonyms and synonyms      
nyms and using descriptive words   Objective 2.3.2:  Use words that      
(AL COS #3) (SAT10)   describe (ex. Location, size,       
A.  Learn and use new words from indepen-   color shape)      
dent reading of stories and texts (AL COS)          
B.  Recognize words in the environment           
(AL COS)          
C.  Develop new vocabulary for listening,           
speaking, reading, and writing through word          
study          
  1.  explain synonyms/antonyms, homonyms          
(AL COS) (SAT10)          
  2.  identify multi-meaning words (AL COS)          
(SAT10)          
  3.  use semantic cues (context clues)          
(AL COS) (SAT10)          
  4.  recognize possessive forms (AL COS)          
  5.  recognize prefixes and suffixes (morphemes)          
(SAT10)          
  6.  recognize and use compound words  (SAT10)          
AL COS Standards Vocabulary Prerequisite Skills from State Suggested Materials/Resources Documentation Date(s) Taught Comments
  7.  recognize and use contractions (SAT10)   Curriculum Guide      
  8.  recognize and apply inflectional endings          
Comprehension          
Demonstrate comprehension of    Objective 2.4.1: Read with       
second-grade reading materials across   comprehension a variety of       
the curriculum, drawing simple  first grade narrative and     
conclusions, classifying ideas and         
things, identifying sequence, and retelling   informational  texts recalling      
directions and information from textual/   information Open Court    
informational and functional materials.   Objective 2.4.2: Identify  Rigby     
(AL COS #4) (SAT10)   correct sequence of events after      
A.  Use 4 cueing systems at current indepen-   reading a story or listening to      
dent and instructional levels   the reading of a story      
  1.  schema-relate events and ideas to specific   Objective 2.4.3: Draw conclusions      
life experiences (AL COS) (SAT10), other   about information or stories read      
texts, and world events (text to self, text to   Objective 2.4.4:  Classify words      
text, and text to world) (SAT10)   and things, with or without       
  2.  syntactic-use the structure of language   pictures, into categories      
  3.  semantic-use context and prior knowledge   Objective 2.4.5:  Tell the main      
  4.  graphophonic -recognize cues provided   idea or topic of an informational      
by print   passage      
B.  Listen to, read and comprehend textual          
functional, and recreational materials, (SAT10)      
  1.  summarize          
  2.  classify information (AL COS)          
  3.  retell information in sequence (AL COS)          
  4.  identify main idea, provide supporting          
details (SAT10)          
  5.  identify characteristics of genre (fiction          
and nonfiction)          
  6.  make predictions          
  7.  draw simple conclusions (AL COS) (SAT10)          
  8.  determine cause and effect          
9.  make inferences          
C.  Respond appropriately to oral and written          
questions from all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy          
(AL COS) (SAT10)          
  1.  compare and contract ideas of a story          
  2.  answer questions (what if, why, and how)          
(AL COS)          
  3.  ask questions to gain understanding           
AL COS Standards Vocabulary Prerequisite Skills from State Suggested Materials/Resources Documentation Date(s) Taught Comments
( what if, why, and how)     Curriculum Guide      
D.  Identify and use story literary elements          
to comprehend text          
  1.  plot          
  2.  setting          
  3.  characters (AL COS)      
  4.  problems/solution        
E.  Read reference materials, textual and      Open Court    
functional , such as : Classroom texts,      Rigby     
maps, simple tables, atlases, dictionary,          
encyclopedias, diagrams, graphs, thesaurus          
( AL COS)          
Reading Behaviors          
A.  Read appropriate materials for a sustained          
period of time daily          
  1.  functional (menu, catalog, schedule,           
directions)          
  2.  textual/informational (classroom texts,          
magazines, diagrams, tables, charts)          
  3.  recreational/literary (student-authored work,          
trade books, self selection, multicultural,          
author/illustrated studies          
B.  React and respond to print          
C.  Use books and materials responsibly          
D.  Use study strategies          
  1.  alphabetize to the second letter          
  2.  identify text features (parts of a book)          
  3.  use dictionary skills          
  4.  create and use graphic organizers      
E.  Monitor own reading, search for cues,          
and self-correct (looks right/sounds right/          
makes sense)          
F.  Use available technology to reinforce          
and support the reading process          
Oral Language Development          
A.   Use appropriate listening behaviors (11)          
  1.  focus on the speaker          
  2.  ask appropriate questions to gain and           
clarify information          
  3.  retell information in a sequence          
B.  Use appropriate communication behaviors(11)          
AL COS Standards Vocabulary Prerequisite Skills from State Suggested Materials/Resources Documentation Date(s) Taught Comments
  1.  articulate using proper volume and speed   Curriculum Guide      
  2.  maintain eye contact          
  3.  speak in grammatically correct, complete          
sentences        
  4.  use proper grammar          
  5.  incorporate appropriate vocabulary          
C.  Make clear and logical oral presentations         
(11, 21)     Open Court    
(Numbers in parentheses for Oral Language     Rigby     
Development are from the Alabama Course of          
Study:  English Language Arts, Bulletin 1999,          
No. 17 and represent the correlation of the state          
content standards.)