LANGUAGE ARTS - 2
Overview
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.
Major Topics and Concepts
Segment One :
- Decoding
- Spelling
- Two-syllable words with short vowel sounds
- Legible printing
- Reading grade-level sight words
- Identifying story elements
- Identifying theme
- Using context clues
- Reading fluently
- Regular and irregular plural nouns
- Using pronouns
- Narrative writing
- The writing process
- Identifying author’s purpose
- Identifying central idea and key details
- Determining the meaning of unknown words
- Reading fluently
- Regular and irregular verb tenses
- Expository writing
- Vowel teams
- Rhyme scheme
- Similes, idioms, and alliteration
- Complete sentences, fragments, and run-ons
- Opinion writing
- Text features
- Author’s opinion
- Figurative language
- Compound sentences
- Open and closed syllables
- Character’s perspective
- Comparing and contrasting literature
- Using academic language
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Retelling informative texts
- Presenting information orally
- Contractions
Segment Two :
- Decoding
- Diphthongs
- Spelling
- Reading grade-level sight words
- Characters’ perspective
- Reading fluently
- Retelling literature texts
- Theme
- Presenting information orally
- Prepositions
- Narrative writing
- The writing process
- Character dialogue
- Comparing and contrasting
- Using a dictionary
- Possessive nouns
- Research
- Expository writing
- Peer review
- Rhyme scheme
- Figurative language
- Retelling literature texts
- Theme
- Commas
- Opinion writing
- Base words and affixes
- Retelling informative texts
- Academic vocabulary
- Verb tense
- Citing sources
- Subject-verb agreement
Grade 2
Annual
Students will need the following materials: printer, cell phone or scanner, pencils, scissors, notebook, erasers, crayons, glue, tape, handwriting paper, printer paper, colored paper, and other household items.
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