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What Your Second Grader Needs to Know

by: HIRSCH, E.D. JR

What Your Second Grader Needs to Know

by: HIRSCH, E.D. JR

ISBN 13:
9780385318433
ISBN 10:
038531843X
Edition: Revised
Format: Trade Paper
Copyright: 07/13/1999
Publisher: Delta
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One of the best-selling books in the Core Knowledge series, has been completely revised & updated to be more child-friendly.

Acknowledgments

A Note to Teachers

viii

Introduction to the Revised Edition

General Introduction to the Core Knowledge Series

xvii

I. Language and Literature

Reading, Writing, and Your Second Grader

A Note to Parents

(1)

Suggested Resources for Parents and Children

(2)

Literature

Introduction

(2)

Poetry

Bed in Summer

(1)

Buffalo Dusk

(1)

Caterpillars

(1)

Bee! I'm Expecting You!

(1)

Hurt No Living Thing

(1)

Discovery

(1)

Harriet Tubman

(1)

Lincoln

(1)

The Night Before Christmas

(2)

Seashell

(1)

Something Told the Wild Geese

(1)

Rudolph Is Tired of the City

(1)

Smart

(1)

Who Has Seen the Wind?

(1)

Windy Nights

(1)

There Was an Old Man with a Beard

(1)

There Is a Young Lady, Whose Nose

(1)

Stories

The Blind Men and the Elephant

(1)

The Fisherman and His Wife

(2)

Talk

(2)

The Emperor's New Clothes

(1)

How Iktomi Lost His Eyes

(2)

The Magic Paintbrush

(2)

A Christmas Carol

(4)

``Before Breakfast'' (from Charlotte's Web)

(2)

How the Camel Got His Hump

(3)

El Pajaro Cu

(1)

Beauty and the Best

(3)

The Tongue-Cut Sparrow

(3)

The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal

(2)

How Wendy Met Peter Pan

(4)

American Tall Tales

Paul Bunyan

(1)

Pecos Bill

(2)

John Henry

(2)

Myths from Ancient Greece

Heroes and Monsters, Gods and Goddesses

(5)

Gods of Nature and Mythical Creatures

(2)

Prometheus Brings Fire, Pandora Brings Woe

(1)

Oedipus and the Sphinx

(1)

Theseus and the Minotaur

(2)

Daedalus and Icarus

(2)

Arachne the Weaver

Swift-Footed Atalanta

(1)

Demeter and Persephone

(1)

The Labors of Hercules

(3)

Learning About Language

Sentences

(1)

Two Rules for Writing Sentences

(1)

Nouns Name a Person, Place, or Thing

(1)

Singular and Plural Nouns

(1)

Verbs: Action Words

(1)

Verbs: Past and Present

(2)

Adjectives Describe Things

(1)

More About Words: Antonyms and Synonyms

(1)

Contractions

(1)

Abbreviations

(1)

Using Capital Letters

(2)

Familiar Sayings

Back to the drawing board

(1)

Better late than never

(1)

Cold feet

(1)

Don't cry over spilled milk

(1)

Don't (or can't) judge a book by its cover

(1)

Easier said than done

(1)

Eaten out of house and home

(1)

Get a taste of your own medicine

(1)

Two heads are better than one

(1)

In hot water

(1)

Keep your fingers crossed

(1)

Practice what you preach

(1)

Get up on the wrong side of the bed

(1)

Turn over a new leaf

(1)

Where there's a will there's a way

(1)

You can't teach an old dog new tricks

(3)

II. History and Geography

Introduction

(3)

World History and Geography

A Quick Geography Review

(1)

Settle Down!

(2)

Civilizations in Asia

Long Ago in Asia: Civilization in the Indus Valley

(1)

Civilization Along the Ganges

(1)

Hinduism

(2)

A Story from the Holy Books of Hinduism

101

(2)

Rama and Sita: A Tea Tale from the Ramayana

101

(2)

Buddha: The Enlightened One

103

(2)

King Asoka: From War to Peace

105

(1)

A Wise Teacher in China: Confucius

106

(1)

China: Great Rivers and a Great Wall

107

(1)

An Important Invention

108

(1)

Smooth as Silk

109

(1)

Chinese New Year

110

(2)

Let's Visit Japan

112

(2)

Ancient Greece

Birthplace of the Olympics and More

114

(1)

A Civilization of City-States

114

(1)

Athens: Birthplace of Democracy

115

(2)

Rough, Tough Sparta

117

(1)

The Persian Wars

118

(1)

Battles That Live in Memory

119

(2)

Marathon

119

(1)

Thermopylae

120

(1)

Great Thinkers in Athens

121

(1)

Alexander the Great

122

(1)

The Gordian Knot

123

(1)

What Lies Beyond?

124

(2)

American History and Geography

A Quick Look Back

126

(1)

Our Constitution

Democracy: A Big Challenge

127

(2)

James Madison: Father of the Constitution

129

(4)

The War of 1812

Another War Already?

133

(2)

Dolley Madison: A Brave Woman

135

(1)

Oh, Say, Can You See...

136

(3)

The Battle After the War

139

(1)

Westward Ho!

The Call of the West

140

(1)

Boats and Canals

141

(3)

The Iron Horse

144

(1)

Wagons West

145

(2)

A Family Goes West

147

(2)

Women's Work

149

(1)

The Oregon Trail

150

(1)

Already There: The American Indians

150

(3)

Forced from Their Lands

153

(2)

The Civil War

Fighting Against Each Other

155

(1)

Slavery in America

155

(1)

Stop Slavery or Let It Spread?

156

(2)

Another Kind of Railroad

158

(1)

Yankees Against Rebels

159

(3)

Abraham Lincoln: A Man for the Union

162

(1)

The Emancipation Proclamation

163

(1)

A Nation of Immigrants

E Pluribus Unum

164

(1)

Why Did Immigrants Come to America?

165

(1)

A Land of Opportunity?

166

(2)

Becoming a Citizen

168

(1)

Civil Rights: Liberty and Justice for All

All Men Are Created Equal

169

(1)

Susan B. Anthony and Votes for Women

169

(1)

Eleanor Roosevelt

170

(1)

Equality Regardless of Color

171

(5)

Mary McLeod Bethune

171

(1)

Jackie Robinson

172

(1)

Rosa Parks

173

(1)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

174

(1)

Cesar Chavez

175

(1)

Geography of the Americas

The United States Today

176

(1)

Central America and the Caribbean

177

(1)

South America

178

(5)

III. Visual Arts

Introduction

183

(1)

Taking a Line for a Walk

184

(3)

Lines and Movement

187

(1)

Looking at Sculptures

188

(2)

Looking at Landscapes

190

(3)

Animals Real and Imagined

193

(3)

Abstract Art

196

(1)

Architecture: The Art of Designing Buildings

197

(2)

A Building of Curves

199

(1)

A Beautiful Castle

200

(1)

A Modern Museum

201

(4)

IV. Music

Introduction

205

(1)

Many Kinds of Music

206

(1)

Patriotic Music

206

(1)

Folk Music

207

(1)

Classical Music

208

(1)

Meet Some Great Composers

209

(2)

Families of Instruments: A Closer Look

211

(2)

The String Family

211

(1)

The Percussion Family

212

(1)

Keyboard Instruments

213

(2)

Mr. Bach at the Keyboard

214

(1)

Writing Music Down

215

(1)

Follow the Notes

216

(1)

Pitch: High and Low

217

(2)

A Musical Scale

219

(2)

Some Songs for Second Grade

Clementine

221

(1)

Old Dan Tucker

222

(1)

Home on the Range

222

(1)

Goodbye, Old Paint

223

(1)

Buffalo Gals

223

(1)

Casey Jones

224

(3)

V. Mathematics

Introduction

227

(1)

Working with Numbers to 100

Skip-Counting

228

(1)

Some Special Math Words

228

(1)

Even and Odd Numbers

229

(1)

Between, One More, and One Less

229

(1)

Counting with a Tally

230

(1)

Using Graphs

231

(1)

Writing Numbers as Words

232

(1)

Reading a Number Line

233

(1)

Review: Addition Facts to 12

234

(1)

Review: Subtraction Facts from Numbers to 12

235

(1)

Addition Facts with Sums of 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18

236

(1)

Subtraction Facts from 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18

236

(1)

Adding in Any Order, and Adding Three Numbers

237

(1)

Doubles and Halves

238

(1)

Sum of 10

239

(1)

Checking Addition and Subtraction

240

(1)

Fact Families

240

(1)

Find the Missing Number

241

(1)

Missing Number Problems with Greater Than and Less Than

242

(1)

Working with Equations

243

(1)

Tens and Ones

244

(1)

Adding Numbers with Two Digits

245

(2)

Checking Addition by Changing the Order of Addends

247

(1)

Adding Three Numbers

247

(1)

Subtracting Numbers with Two Digits

248

(2)

Checking Two-Digit Subtraction

250

(1)

Adding and Subtracting Horizontally, Vertically, and in Your Head

251

(2)

Adding and Subtracting 9 in Your Head

253

(1)

Estimating and Rounding to the Nearest Ten

253

(2)

Fractions

255

(2)

Working with Numbers to 1,000

The Hundreds

257

(1)

Counting Between Hundreds

258

(1)

Count On!

259

(1)

Place Value

260

(1)

Expanded Form

261

(1)

Comparing Three-Digit Numbers

262

(1)

Adding Three-Digit Numbers

262

(1)

Regrouping Tens as Hundreds

263

(2)

Subtracting from a Three-Digit Number

265

(1)

Subtraction and Regrouping Hundreds

265

(2)

Money

Coins and Dollar Bills

267

(2)

How Many Make Up a Dollar?

269

(1)

Quarters and Counting by 25

270

(1)

Counting Money

270

(1)

Adding and Subtracting Money

271

(1)

Word Problems

272

(69)

Measurement

Measuring Length

273

(2)

Measuring Weight

275

(1)

Measuring Time: The Calendar

276

(2)

Measuring Time: Clock Time to 5 Minutes

278

(1)

Measuring Time: Half and Quarter Hours

279

(2)

Measuring Time: How Much Time Has Passed?

281

(1)

Geometry

Plane Figures

282

(1)

Solid Figures

283

(2)

Points, Lines, and Segments

285

(2)

Lines of Symmetry

287

(1)

Multiplication

What Is Multiplication?

288

(1)

Practicing Multiplication

289

(1)

Multiplying by 10

290

(1)

Three Rules for Multiplication

290

(2)

Word Problems and Missing Factors

292

(3)

VI. Science

Introduction

295

(2)

The Cycle of Life and the Seasons

The Life Cycle

297

(3)

From Seed to Seed: A Plant's Life Cycle

299

(1)

From Frog to Frog: An Amphibian's Life Cycle

299

(1)

The Cycle of the Seasons

300

(4)

Spring

301

(1)

Summer

301

(1)

Fall

302

(1)

Winter

302

(2)

The Water Cycle

Evaporation

304

(1)

Going Up, Going Down

304

(1)

Condensation and Precipitation

305

(1)

Putting It All Together: The Water Cycle

306

(1)

Insects

Insects Everywhere!

307

(1)

What Makes an Insect an Insect?

308

(2)

Are They Insects?

310

(1)

Insect Life Cycles

310

(3)

A Simpler Kind of Metamorphosis

312

(1)

Social Insects

313

(4)

An Ant Colony

313

(1)

In a Beehive

314

(3)

The Human Body

Cells: The Building Blocks of Living Things

317

(1)

Cells and Tissues, Organs and Systems

318

(1)

What Happens to the Food You Eat?

318

(3)

A Healthy Diet: The Food Pyramid

321

(1)

Vitamins and Minerals

322

(1)

Magnetism

That Special Magnetic Attraction

323

(1)

Magnetic Poles

324

(2)

Using a Compass

326

(1)

Simple Machines

Tools and Machines

327

(1)

Levers

328

(1)

Wheels

329

(1)

Pulleys

330

(1)

Inclined Planes

331

(1)

Wedges

331

(2)

Screws

333

(1)

Stories About Scientists

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

334

(2)

Florence Nightingale

336

(1)

Daniel Hale Williams

337

(1)

Elijah McCoy

338

(3)

Illustration and Photo Credits

341

(2)

Text Credits and Sources

343

(4)

Index

347

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