2nd grade English Language Arts
14 units matched to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). Kids see this subject as “Reading & Writing”.
Focus areas
- Foundational language skills: vowel teams, silent letters, contractions, and prefixes and suffixes
- Comprehension, response and genres: character traits, plot, poems and information text features
- Author's purpose and craft, and composition: descriptive and figurative language, and editing for grammar and punctuation
- Inquiry and research: asking questions, finding sources and sharing what you learn
Units
Unit 1
Rhyme Time
Hearing rhymes and spotting word families (-at, -ig, -op). Both help with reading and spelling new words.
TEKS student expectation: 2.2(A) · rhymes and word families
Unit 2
Sound Detectives
Letter teams that make one sound (sh, ch, th, wh, ee, ai, oa) and clapping syllables.
TEKS student expectation: 2.2(B); 2.2(C) · vowel teams, digraphs and blends
Unit 3
Story Builders
Reading short stories, then naming the character and setting, explaining why things happened, and retelling events in order.
TEKS student expectation: 2.8(B); 2.8(C); 2.8(D) · characters, settings and the order of events
Unit 4
Word Power
Building compound words, finding opposites and spelling plurals (-s and -es).
TEKS student expectation: 2.2(B); 2.3(D) · compound words, opposites and plurals
Unit 5
Book Explorers
Book words (author, illustrator, title, chapter, table of contents, caption, heading, diagram), fiction and non-fiction, and what letters, recipes, maps and lists are for.
TEKS student expectation: 2.9(D); 2.10(C) · information from titles, captions and pictures
Unit 6
Joining Sentences
Joining two short sentences into one compound sentence with and, but, so or or, and putting a comma before the joining word.
TEKS student expectation: 2.11(D) · joining ideas with and, but, so and or
Unit 7
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.
TEKS student expectation: 2.11(D) · nouns, pronouns and verbs in sentences
Unit 8
Word Pictures
Spotting similes (comparisons with like or as) and repeated consonant sounds, and what they add to a text.
TEKS student expectation: 2.9(B); 2.10(D) · similes, descriptive language and sound patterns
Unit 9
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.
TEKS student expectation: 2.8(B); 2.10(E) · comparing characters and noticing who tells the story
Unit 10
Text Features
Using a table of contents, charts and icons to find information, and following order words in steps and journal entries.
TEKS student expectation: 2.9(D); 2.10(C) · using contents pages, charts and order to find information
Unit 11
Asking Questions and Finding Facts
Using what you know, asking basic questions, choosing texts and facts for a purpose, and using topic words.
TEKS student expectation: 2.13(A); 2.13(C) · asking questions and choosing a text that answers them
Unit 12
Media Detectives
Children compare ads, signs, posters, books and videos, tell what each one is for, notice the choices their makers made, and pick good sources for a research question.
TEKS student expectation: 2.10(A); 2.13(C) · gathering information and naming what a text or message is for
Unit 13
Silent Letters & Short Forms
Your child reads and spells words with silent letters (knot, lamb, night), contractions (they're) and common abbreviations (Mr., Jan., St.).
TEKS student expectation: 2.2(B); 2.2(C) · silent letters, contractions and common abbreviations
Unit 14
Prefixes & Suffixes
Your child works out what un-, re-, dis-, -ly, -er, -est and -ion add to a word, and uses -er and -est to compare.
TEKS student expectation: 2.3(C); 2.2(B) · the prefixes un-, re- and dis- and the suffixes -ly, -er, -est and -ion
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