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Elementary Elementary Language Arts Grade 2

Suggested Prerequisites

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Description

Calling all environmentalists! In this course, students will follow Ninovan, the Environmental Scientist, on a learning adventure. Students will explore writing, grammar, phonics, and more. They will practice sight words and reading fluency, learn reading comprehension skills with both literature and informational texts, and go through the writing process with expository, narrative, and opinion-based writing.

Module 1: Building Community

-Two-syllable words with short vowel sounds

-Legible printing

-Grade-level sight words

-Story elements

-Theme

-Context clues

-Fluency: accuracy, automaticity, expression

-Regular and irregular plural nouns

-Pronouns

-Personal narrative writing


Module 2: Investigation

-Two-syllable words with long vowel sounds

-Grade-level sight words

-Meaning of unknown words

-Author's purpose

-Central idea and key details

-Fluency: accuracy, automaticity, expression

-Regular and irregular verb tenses

-Expository writing


Module 3: Migration

-Vowel teams: ee, ea, ai, ay, and ie

-Grade-level sight words

-Rhyme scheme

-Fluency: accuracy, automaticity, expression

-Similes, idioms, and alliteration

-Context clues

-Complete sentences, fragments, and run-ons

-Opinion writing


Module 4: Exploration

-Vowel teams: oa, oe, ui, and ue

-Grade-level sight words

-Text features

-Author’s purpose

-Author's opinion and supporting evidence

-Figurative language

-Context clues

-Fluency: accuracy, automaticity, expression

-Compound sentences

-Expository writing


Module 5: Differences

-Open and closed syllables

-Grade-level sight words

-Fluency: accuracy, automaticity, expression

-Character’s perspective

-Context clues

-Compare and contrast two texts

-Academic language

-Adjectives

-Adverbs

-Fictional narrative writing


Module 6: Humanity

-Words with silent letters

-Grade-level sight words

-Author's opinion and supporting evidence

-Fluency: accuracy, automaticity, expression

-Retelling informative texts

-Oral presentations

-Contractions

-Opinion writing

Module 7: Citizenship

-Vowel pairs: oi and oy

-Diphthongs

-Grade-level sight words

-Characters' perspective

-Fluency: accuracy, automaticity, expression

-Retelling literature texts

-Theme

-Oral presentations

-Prepositions

-Personal narrative writing

-Quotation marks, character dialogue


Module 8: Survival

-Long u: ew and oo

-Grade-level sight words

-Compare and contrast two texts

-Fluency: accuracy, automaticity, expression

-Possessive nouns

-Research

-Expository writing

-Peer review


Module 9: Discoveries

-Vowel pairs: ow, ou, aw, and au

-Grade-level sight words

-Rhyme scheme

-Figurative language

-Fluency: accuracy, automaticity, expression

-Retell literature texts

-Theme

-Commas

-Opinion writing


Module 10: Freedoms

-Grade-level sight words

-Consonant -le words

-Base words and affixes

-Retell informative texts

-Academic vocabulary

-Fluency: accuracy, automaticity, expression

-Verb tense

-Credible sources, citing sources

-Expository writing


Module 11: Imagination

-Prefixes, base words, affixes

-Grade-level sight words

-Fluency: accuracy, automaticity, expression

-Compare and contract two texts

-Progressive verb tense

-Narrative writing

-Multimedia elements


Module 12: Making Connections

-Suffixes, base words, affixes

-Compare and contrast two texts

-Academic vocabulary

-Context clues

-Fluency: accuracy, automaticity, expression

-Verb tense

-Subject-verb agreement

-Opinion writing

-Research

-Peer review