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What your second grader needs to know : fundamentals of a good second-grade education / edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

Hirsch, E. D. (Eric Donald), 1928- (editor.).

Summary:

"A revised and updated version of What Your Second Grader Needs to Know, Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education, with readings and activities in Literature, Mathematics, History, science, and the arts"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780553392401
ISBN: 0553392409
Physical Description: xxxiii, 491 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.
Edition: Revised edition.
Publisher: New York : Bantam, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.