📚 Grade 2 English Language Arts

Units

1. Unit 1

   👂Listen and Speak

   Listening with care, taking turns, asking politely when you did not hear, and using a clear voice that fits the place and the people. These habits help friendships and learning.

   Learning outcome: Adjust listening and speaking to communicate clearly and to develop positive relationships. · listening to others, taking turns, and speaking clearly and kindly

2. Unit 2

   🔍Sound Detectives

   Letter teams that make one sound (sh, ch, th, wh, ee, ai, oa) and clapping syllables.

   Learning outcome: Make connections between letters and the sounds they represent to read fluently and spell words correctly. · matching letters to sounds to read and spell words

3. Unit 3

   💪Word Power

   Building compound words, finding opposites and spelling plurals (-s and -es).

   Learning outcome: Clarify written ideas and information through use of appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation. · building vocabulary and using plurals and opposites

4. Unit 4

   ✏️Super Sentences

   Starting sentences and names with capitals, and choosing a period, question mark or exclamation mark.

   Learning outcome: Clarify written ideas and information through use of appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation. · writing complete sentences with capitals and end marks

5. Unit 5

   🧱Build Sentences

   Telling the four sentence types apart, spotting complete sentences, and joining two ideas into a compound sentence.

   Learning outcome: Clarify written ideas and information through use of appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation. · statements, questions, commands and exclamations, and joining sentences

6. Unit 6

   ⚙️Grammar Gears

   Using the right form of the verb “to be”, choosing pronouns, comparing with -er and -est, and picking joining words like but, or and because.

   Learning outcome: Clarify written ideas and information through use of appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation. · nouns, pronouns, verbs and joining words

7. Unit 7

   ✏️Punctuation Power

   Capital letters for names and places, commas in lists, apostrophes to show who owns something, and quotation marks for speech.

   Learning outcome: Clarify written ideas and information through use of appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation. · capital letters, commas in lists, apostrophes and quotation marks

8. Unit 8

   🔎Reading Detectives

   Reading short texts to work out who is telling the story, what will happen next, how characters feel, and how things are the same and different.

   Learning outcome: Use a variety of reading strategies, including altering speed, rereading, and making predictions, to understand the message in a story or an informational text. · predicting, rereading and understanding stories and information texts

9. Unit 9

   📖Text Features

   Using a table of contents, charts and icons to find information, and following order words in steps and journal entries.

   Learning outcome: Use a variety of reading strategies, including altering speed, rereading, and making predictions, to understand the message in a story or an informational text. · using the table of contents, charts and other text features to understand information

10. Unit 10

    ❓Ask and Answer

    Using who, what, where, when, why and how to ask good questions, and finding answers in short texts. Asking questions is how readers and listeners make sure they understand.

    Learning outcome: Ask and answer questions to clarify information. · using question words, and asking and answering questions about what you hear and read

11. Unit 11

    📖Story Builders

    Reading short stories, then naming the character and setting, explaining why things happened, and retelling events in order.

    Learning outcome: Create imaginative representations or dramatizations of stories that include characters, setting, and plot. · characters, setting, plot and retelling a story