Title:
What your second grader needs to know : fundamentals of a good second-grade education / edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
ISBN:
9780553392401
Edition:
Revised edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2014.
Physical Description:
xxxiii, 491 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.
General Note:
"Support Common Core achievement with readings and activites in literature, mathematics, science, the arts." --cover
Contents:
Language and literature. Reading, writing, and your second grader: a note to parents ; Literature ; Poetry ; Stories ; American tall tales ; Myths from Ancient Greece ; Learning about language ; Familiar phrases -- History and geography. World history and geography ; Early Asian civilizations ; Modern Japan ; Ancient Greek civilization ; American history and geography ; The constitution ; The war of 1812 ; Westward expansion ; The civil war ; Immigration and citizenship ; Civil rights: fighting for a cause ; Geography of the Americas ; Suggested resources -- Visual arts -- Music. Many kinds of music ; Meet some great composers ; Families of instruments: a closer look ; Some songs for second grade ; Suggested resources -- Mathematics. Working with numbers to 100 ; Working with numbers to 1,000 ; Money ; Word problems ; Measurement ; Geometry ; Multiplication -- Science. Life cycles ; The water cycle ; The human body ; Insects everywhere! ; Magnetism ; Simple machines ; Suggested resources.
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OCLC Number:
ocn881385831
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