English curriculum
This 2nd grade english curriculum is organized into 36 units, 75 skills, and 363 practice steps. Current topic coverage includes Phonics: Sounds & Syllables, Reading: Syllables And Two-Syllable, Vowel Patterns & R-Control, and Reading: Vowel Teams And. Each unit includes guided lesson steps, skill practice, and a clear path to the next concept.
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Unit 1
This unit builds foundational reading skills by focusing on recognizing letter sounds, blending them, and breaking words into syllables for easier decoding.
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Unit 2
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for syllables and two-syllable words, digraphs, trigraphs, and blends, short and long vowel patterns.
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Unit 3
This unit expands decoding skills by teaching long vowel patterns, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, and other variant vowel sounds.
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Unit 4
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for vowel teams and r-controlled vowels, diphthongs and variant vowels, sight words and decodable text fluency.
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Unit 5
This unit focuses on developing reading fluency, sight word recognition, and applying phonics skills to read decodable texts accurately and with expression.
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Unit 6
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for sequence and plot structure, character, setting, and event response, inference, theme, and lesson.
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Unit 7
Students will learn to identify elements of story structure, such as characters, setting, and plot events, and use illustrations to deepen understanding.
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Unit 8
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for word meaning in literary context, illustration-text integration, compare and contrast story versions.
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Unit 9
This unit teaches students to find the central message of stories, describe character responses, understand words in context, and identify different points of view.
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Unit 10
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for main topic and key details, text features and navigation, author purpose and support.
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Unit 11
This unit teaches students to identify the main topic of non-fiction texts and locate key facts and details that support it.
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Unit 12
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for cause and effect in informational text, compare and contrast across texts, visual information integration (charts/diagrams).
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Unit 13
Students will learn to use text features to find information, identify the author's purpose, and understand how images clarify text.
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Unit 14
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for sentence types, fragments, and run-ons, subjects and predicates, nouns (common/proper, singular/plural, possessive).
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Unit 15
This unit teaches students to identify and correctly use common, proper, singular, plural, and possessive nouns, as well as various types of pronouns.
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Unit 16
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for pronouns (subject/object/possessive/reflexive), verb types and verb tense progression, subject-verb agreement.
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Unit 17
This unit focuses on identifying different types of verbs, understanding verb tense, and ensuring subjects and verbs agree.
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Unit 18
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for articles, prepositions, and contractions, adjectives/adverbs and comparative/superlative forms, spelling conventions (drop-e, double consonant, y-to-i).
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Unit 19
This unit covers identifying complete sentences, subjects, and predicates, and applying correct capitalization, punctuation, and abbreviations.
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Unit 20
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for punctuation and capitalization conventions, abbreviations (days, months).
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Unit 21
This unit teaches students to use adjectives and adverbs to add detail to sentences, including comparative and superlative forms, and to identify prepositions.
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Unit 22
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for prefixes and suffixes, compound words, categories and semantic grouping.
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Unit 23
This unit helps students expand their vocabulary by learning about prefixes, suffixes, compound words, and using context clues to understand new words.
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Unit 24
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for synonyms and antonyms, homophones and multiple-meaning words, shades of meaning.
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Unit 25
This unit helps students understand how words relate to each other through categories, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and shades of meaning.
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Unit 26
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for context clues, dictionary and reference skills.
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Unit 27
Students will learn to write narrative stories that recount a sequence of events, include descriptive details, and provide a clear sense of closure.
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Unit 28
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for organizing writing in logical order, topic sentences and supporting details, linking and time-order words.
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Unit 29
Students will learn to write informative texts that introduce a topic, provide facts, and use supporting details to explain a subject.
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Unit 30
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for opinion writing (reason and example), informative writing development, narrative writing with descriptive details.
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Unit 31
Students will learn to write opinion pieces that clearly state an opinion, provide reasons to support it, and offer a sense of closure.
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Unit 32
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for sentence combining and variety, revision and editing routines.
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Unit 33
This unit challenges students to deeply comprehend and analyze complex texts, compare and contrast different stories or informational pieces, and articulate their understanding.
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Unit 34
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for discussion norms and turn taking, questioning and clarification, recounting and oral summaries.
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Unit 35
This unit focuses on deepening writing skills through sentence combining, using digital tools, and developing robust revision and editing practices.
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Unit 36
Topic-focused Grade 2 ELA unit for oral presentation clarity and pacing, using visuals/audio to support communication.
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