Units of Study in Reading, 2023, Grade 2 Bundle with Trade Pack

By Lucy Calkins, Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Columbia University

The Units of Study in Reading for Grade 2 are built to remind students of all the incredible skills they learned in first grade and to transition them into the big kid work of being a second grader.

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ISBN 978-0-325-13684-4 / 0-325-13684-X / SKU E13684
2023 / Bundle
Curricular Resource Grade Level: 2nd

Topics: Curricular Resources, Early Childhood Education, Language Arts, Reading

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Full Description

The Units of Study in Reading series has been designed to provide teachers with a curriculum framework to lean on and to adapt, with embedded professional development to help deepen knowledge of beginning reading and of methods for teaching reading.

What makes the Units of Study particularly magical is the way that one day’s teaching links to the next. Skills and concepts introduced in one unit are revisited and strengthened, both within a grade level and across grade levels.

About the new Units of Study for Teaching Reading, Grade 2

The Units of Study in Reading for Grade 2 are built to remind students of all the incredible skills they learned in first grade and to transition them into the big kid work of being a second grader.

In Unit 1, Becoming a Big Kid Reader, you’ll teach your students how to read with greater fluency and help them develop strategies to become efficient and flexible word solvers as they encounter trickier words. Throughout Unit 2, Becoming Experts, you’ll invite kids into the fascinating world of nonfiction reading, ushering them into the unit by suggesting that good readers of nonfiction are interested in everything. They’ll learn to read closely, with wide-awake attention to detail. At the start of Unit 3, Tackling Longer Words and Longer Books, you’ll ask for your students’ help in refurbishing your classroom library. Throughout this process, students will begin to work through more difficult words and will practice scooping up longer phrases. In Unit 4, Stepping into the World of the Story, you’ll invite students to think about the incredible power that reading has to take us on adventures, on field trips, to faraway places, and to familiar neighborhoods. Finally, in Unit 5, Growing Knowledge Together, you’ll amplify the importance of reading partnerships, helping your students talk and collaborate in new and more rigorous ways. Students will work independently and with reading groups to make sense of more challenging texts. By the end of Grade 2, students will have the solid foundation necessary to move into third grade and beyond.

Unit Titles

Becoming a Big Kid Reader (Unit 1)
Becoming Experts (Unit 2)
Tackling Longer Words and Longer Books (Unit 3)
Stepping into the World of the Story (Unit 4)
Growing Knowledge Together (Unit 5)

About the Series

The new primary Units of Study in Reading and Writing represent wholesale changes. The best of all that was offered in the previous editions has been streamlined, clarified, and kept, but the new units are new indeed. Lucy Calkins and the coauthors worked diligently to incorporate all their latest thinking and learning into the new units including:

research on the science of reading;
new comprehension research;
language research, including support for foundational skills such as grammar;
new research on writing, including writing from sources;
and research on knowledge generation.

The Units of Study address the full range of domains emphasized by the reading research community to provide a truly research-based approach that brings the best of what we know into classrooms in ways that will spark joy and provide teachers with the tools they need to teach responsively. The new Units of Study will do more to empower, revitalize, and strengthen teachers than ever before—and that will build even stronger communities of learning to set all kids on trajectories of growth.

For more information about the Units of Study for Teaching Reading, visit UnitsofStudy.com/K-2Reading.

Additional Resource Information

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Components

Units of Study in Reading

There are five Units of Study in Reading for each grade level, and each unit represents four to six weeks of teaching. The units are the heart of the series. In each unit of study, teachers will learn a rich repertoire of ways to provide focused and explicit instruction on a specific set of skills and strategies.

Additional Resources Included

In addition to the units themselves, the resources in this bundle include:

Supporting All Readers: High-Leverage Small Groups and Conferences, K–2

This book is an invaluable resource for meeting the needs of a range of learners in the classroom. It includes a collection of small groups, conferences, and tools teachers can draw on for work-time teaching. Teachers also draw on this book often to meet the needs of students through one-on-one and small-group reading interventions.

A Guide to the Reading Workshop, K–2

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the Units of Study in Reading series. It is an essential manual that helps teachers develop an understanding of the essentials of reading instruction and reading development across K–2. Teachers also learn about how reading workshop fits into the school day, the architecture and principles that inform minilessons, ways to lead powerful work time instruction, how to use data to inform instruction that ensures access for all students, and more.

Let’s Gather: Reading to and with Your Second Graders (digital lessons only included in Online Resources)

These books provide support for state-of the-art read-aloud sessions in which you will learn ways to develop students’ reading comprehension across a learning progression. Also available in a classroom bundle that includes a print copy of the lesson book along with companion trade books.

Access to Online Resources

Online resources include digital access to all the printed books in the core units of study set (Units, Guide, etc.), along with printable versions of charts, simple decodable texts, and assessment tools. Online Resources also include digital access to the Let’s Gather read-aloud and shared reading guide. There are additional teaching tools, including extensions to support phonological awareness, grammar, and vocabulary; scores of instructional videos for teaching phonological awareness and high-frequency words; student tools such as bookmarks and alphabet charts; and supports for Spanish-speaking learners.

Anchor Chart Sticky Notes

The Anchor Chart Sticky Notes feature each day’s teaching point help teachers create and evolve anchor charts across the units.

Unit Readers

One complete set of the simple printable Unit Readers from the online resources is included for teacher reference.

Units of Study in Reading Trade Book Pack

This Trade Book Pack includes the following trade books that teachers use as demonstration texts to teach the Units of Study in Reading, Grade 2. A representative sampling of these texts includes:

Evelyn Del Rey is Moving Away by Meg Medina
Jellyfish: Mysterious Creatures from the Sea by Michèle Dufresnse
Eruption!: The Story of Volcanoes by Steve Jenkins
My Footprints by Bao Phi
Sadiq and the Perfect Play by Siman Nuurali

Coming: Spanish-language Trade Book Packs.

Additional Resources Not Included

TCRWP Classroom Libraries

TCRWP has curated Classroom Library collections that can serve as the bedrock of powerful reading instruction, when offered in combination with plenty of decodable texts.

Visit UnitsofStudy.com/classroomlibraries for details.

Jump Rope Readers

The Jump Rope Readers decodable series books are available for separate purchase—see Jump Rope Readers Classroom Bundle (Boxes 1 and 2), Set B: Fiction (Gr 1/ Gr 2). These highly engaging decodable books gradually and systematically introduce beginning readers to new letter-sound correspondences and high-frequency words to help beginning readers develop their foundational word recognition skills. Along the way, the books also introduce memorable characters, exciting adventures, and the foundational elements of literary fiction.

Premium Digital Content—Annual Subscriptions

The minilesson videos in the Premium Digital Subscriptions for grades K–2 are designed to serve as valuable exemplars for effective, concise, and engaging minilessons, exemplars that can help teachers lift the level of their teaching. Each minilesson is modeled by a staff developer and can serve as powerful professional learning for individual teachers and for teams as they plan instruction. Teachers may also use the videos in settings where remote teaching is needed.

Companion Resources

Jump Rope Readers Classroom Bundle (Boxes 1 and 2), Set B: Fiction (Gr 1/ Gr 2)— Recommended to provide opportunities for practice of the phonics skills students are learning.
TCRWP Classroom Library, Grade 2 On Level—Recommended to support kids’ independent reading during workshop work time.
TCRWP Classroom Library, Grade 2 Below Benchmark—Recommended to support kids’ independent reading during workshop work time.
Let’s Gather: Reading to and with Your Second Graders(includes lesson book and companion trade books)—Recommended additional purchase to support read-aloud and shared reading (included in digital format in the Online Resources of the core Units set).
Units of Study in Reading Premium Digital Subscription - 2022-23 school year, Grade 1—provides access to digital versions of all the teacher-facing resources (Unit books, Guide, Assessment, etc.) as well as videos of Staff Developers delivering each minilesson from every Unit, ideal for professional development as well as remote teaching.