📚 2nd grade English Language Arts: how to help at home

What each unit covers

1. 🎵Rhyme Time

   Hearing rhymes and spotting word families (-at, -ig, -op). Both help with reading and spelling new words.

2. 🔍Sound Detectives

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

3. 📖Story Builders

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

4. 💪Word Power

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

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.

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.

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.

8. 🎨Word Pictures

   Spotting similes (comparisons with like or as) and repeated consonant sounds, and what they add to a text.

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.

10. 📖Text Features

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

11. 🔎Asking Questions and Finding Facts

    Using what you know, asking basic questions, choosing texts and facts for a purpose, and using topic words.

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.

13. 📖Sight Words and Reading with Expression

    Recognizing common words quickly and noticing punctuation to read in phrases with the right pausing and expression.

14. 🗒️Plan, Write and Make It Better

    Planning with lists and webs, different types of writing for different readers, revising unclear writing, and combining words, pictures and sound.

15. 👂Listening, Asking and Polite Talk

    Using non-verbal cues to show listening, asking questions to learn more, adding to others' ideas and changing how you talk for different people.

16. 🎯Main Topic and Reasons

    Your child finds the main topic or central idea of a short text, picks the best retelling or summary, spots the reasons an author gives for a point and makes text-to-self, text-to-text and text-to-world connections.

17. ✏️Opinions, Stories and Responses

    Your child chooses opinions and the reasons that support them, time-order words, details about actions, thoughts and feelings, story openings and endings, and creative ways to respond to a text such as a poem or a play.