Grade Level & Subject: Grade 2 Writing		Curriculum Map	Year 2003-04
Calendar	February	March
	Third Nine Weeks – February -March
Possible Resources	Collections Grade 2, Harcourt, (Anchor Text) Grammar Practice Book, Spelling Practice Book, Student Reading Practice Book, And computers.
Nine Weeks Focus	How can we use technology and research to make our writing more effective?
Skills/Standards (To teach and measure)	Writing Processes 9. Use available technology to compose text. Writing Conventions 5. Spell plurals and verb tenses correctly. 12. Use nouns, verbs, and adjectives correctly. 13. Use subjects and verbs that are in agreement. 15. Use past and present verb tenses (e.g., “we were” rather than “we was”). Research 1. Create questions for investigations, assigned topic or personal area of interest. 2. Utilize searching techniques to gather information from a variety of locations (e.g., classroom, school library, public library, or community resources). 3. Acquire information, with teacher assistance, from multiple sources (e.g., books, magazines, videotapes, CD-ROMs, Web sites) and collect data about this topic. 4. Identify important information and write brief notes about the information. 5. Sort relevant information about the topic into categories with teacher assistance. 6. Report important findings to others.
Assessment Choices	Research Project Student compositions (Journal Writing)