Grade 2 English Language Arts
8 units matched to the Newfoundland and Labrador Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Reading & Writing”.
Learning focus
- Speaking and listening: explore and reflect. Students will speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.
- Speaking and listening: communicate. Students will be able to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically.
- Speaking and listening: interact with respect. Students will be able to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.
- Reading and viewing: select and read. Students will be able to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
- Reading and viewing: interpret and combine information. Students will be able to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.
- Reading and viewing: respond personally. Students will be able to respond personally to a range of texts.
- Reading and viewing: respond critically. Students will be able to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre.
- Writing and representing: explore and reflect. Students will be able to use writing and other ways of representing to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learning; and to use their imagination.
- Writing and representing: create texts. Students will be able to create texts collaboratively and independently, using a variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes.
- Writing and representing: strategies. Students will be able to use a range of strategies to develop effective writing and other ways of representing and to enhance their clarity, precision, and effectiveness.
Units
Unit 1
Rhyme Time
Hearing rhymes and spotting word families (-at, -ig, -op). Both help with reading and spelling new words.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: select and read (by Grade 3) · rhyme and word families
Unit 2
Sound Detectives
Letter teams that make one sound (sh, ch, th, wh, ee, ai, oa) and clapping syllables.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: select and read (by Grade 3) · hearing and using sounds in words
Unit 3
Super Sentences
Starting sentences and names with capitals, and choosing a period, question mark or exclamation mark.
Curriculum outcome: Writing and representing: strategies (by Grade 3) · capital letters, end punctuation and complete sentences
Unit 4
Story Builders
Reading short stories, then naming the character and setting, explaining why things happened, and retelling events in order.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: respond personally (by Grade 3) · characters, setting and the order of events
Unit 5
Word Power
Building compound words, finding opposites and spelling plurals (-s and -es).
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: select and read (by Grade 3) · word patterns, plurals and vocabulary
Unit 6
Build Sentences
Telling the four sentence types apart, spotting complete sentences, and joining two ideas into a compound sentence.
Curriculum outcome: Writing and representing: strategies (by Grade 3) · statements, questions, commands and compound sentences
Unit 7
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.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: respond personally (by Grade 3) · predicting, inferring and comparing
Unit 8
Text Features
Using a table of contents, charts and icons to find information, and following order words in steps and journal entries.
Curriculum outcome: Reading and viewing: respond critically (by Grade 3) · text features such as headings, charts and a table of contents
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