Grade 2

English Language Arts

EL Education is the provider of the OUSD ELA curriculum for grades K-5,.* The curriculum is standards-based, and relies heavily on fiction and nonfiction trade books. This curriculum is open access, and full materials are available to view and at the EL Education website.

* OUSD Dual Language schools use the Benchmark Education curriculum for language instruction.

Module 1

Schools and Communities

What is school, and why are schools important? Why is it hard for some children to go to school in their communities? How do communities solve these problems so their children can go to school? How are schools around the world different? How are they similar?

Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools around the World by Susan Hughes
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown
The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig

Module 2

Fossils Tell of Earth's Changes

What do paleontologists do? How do characters respond to major events? What can we learn from studying fossils? How do readers learn more about a topic from informational texts? How do authors write compelling narratives?

Curious about Fossils by Kate Waters
Fossils by Ann O Squire
The Dog That Dug for Dinosaurs by Shirley Raye Redmond
Paleontology: The Study of Prehistoric Life by Susan Heinrichs Gray
Stone Girl, Bone Girl by Laurence Anholt
Fossils Tell of Long Ago by Aliki Brandenberg

Module 3

The Secret World of Pollination

How do plants grow and survive? How do pollinators help plants grow and survive? How do we get the fruits, flowers, and vegetables that we enjoy? How do we become researchers and share our learning?

Seed to Plant, by Kristin Baird Rattini
What Is Pollination, by Bobbie Kalman
Plant Secrets, by Emily Goodman
From Seed to Plant, by Gail Gibbons

Module 4

Providing for Pollinators

Why should people help pollinators to survive? How can I take action to help pollinators?

The Little Hummingbird by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
A Place for Butterflies by Melissa Stewart
A Place for Bats by Melissa Stewart
The Ant and the Grasshopper by Diane Marwood
Hey, Little Ant by Phillip and Hannah Hoose
The Lizard and the Sun by Alma Flor Ada

Math

Eureka Math2 (Eureka Math "Squared") is the adopted OUSD curriculum for elementary schools. The curriculum is aligned to California Common Core standards, which describe what students should know and be able to do in each subject in each grade.

Fall

Module 1

Place Value Concepts Through Metric Measurement and Data • Place Value, Counting, and Comparing Within 1,000

English | Spanish

Module 2

Addition and Subtraction

Within 200s

English | Spanish

Winter

Module 3

Shapes and Time with Fraction Concepts

English | Spanish

Module 4

Addition and Subtraction Within 1,000

English | Spanish

Spring

Module 5

Money, Data, and Customary Measurement

English | Spanish

Module 6

Multiplication and Division Foundations

English | Spanish

Science

For elementary science instruction, OUSD uses FOSS (Full Option Science System), a research-based science curriculum developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley. This curriculum emphasizes hands-on activities and is aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The order of the three modules varies from school to school, depending on the rotation of physical science kits at each school site.