English curriculum
This 2nd grade english curriculum is organized into 18 units, 25 skills, and 113 practice steps. Current topic coverage includes Phonics: Sounds & Syllables, Vowel Patterns & R-Control, Fluency & Word Recognition, and Story Structure & Details. 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
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 3
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 4
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 5
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 6
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 7
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 8
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 9
This unit focuses on identifying different types of verbs, understanding verb tense, and ensuring subjects and verbs agree.
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Unit 10
This unit covers identifying complete sentences, subjects, and predicates, and applying correct capitalization, punctuation, and abbreviations.
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Unit 11
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 12
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 13
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 14
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 15
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 16
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 17
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 18
This unit focuses on deepening writing skills through sentence combining, using digital tools, and developing robust revision and editing practices.
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