Grade 2 English Language Arts
9 units matched to the Manitoba Curriculum. Kids see this subject as “Reading & Writing”.
Learning focus
- A1 Oral Language Communication: Learners will apply listening and speaking skills to receive, exchange and develop ideas for various purposes and audiences.
- A2 Language as the Foundation for Reading and Writing:
- B1 Acquire New Information: Learners will activate, acquire and build background knowledge through inquiry of diverse topics and engagement with multimodal forms of text (e.g., visual, oral, print, digital, experts, Elders).
- B3 Think Critically about Multimodal Text and Respond: Learners will recognize, analyze, and respond critically to inequities, bias, and viewpoints in texts and ideas.
- C1 Generate Ideas, Create Plan and Draft/Prototype: Learners will generate ideas, conduct research, evaluate sources, and design a plan to compose multimodal texts (visual, multimedia, oral, written) for a range of purposes and audiences.
- C2 Enhance the Clarity and Artistry of Multimodal Texts: Learners will apply knowledge and understanding of the variables of writing to enhance the clarity, precision and effectiveness of their creations and reflect critically on created text.
- C3 Edit and Publish: Learners will apply knowledge of editing to communicate the text clearly and coherently to an audience, using a variety of media, tools and strategies to publish text.
- D1 Share Ideas and Information: Learners will use a range of multimodal forms of communication (e.g., visual, multimedia, oral and written texts) to share, clarify, and extend ideas/ information for different purposes and audiences.
- D2 Assess and Set Goals: Learners will use metacognition (the ability to think about one’s own thinking) to assess their language skills as listeners, speakers, readers, writers, viewers and representers, supporting their grow as independent learners. Learners will set goals and monitor progress.
Units
Unit 1
Rhyme Time
Hearing rhymes and spotting word families (-at, -ig, -op). Both help with reading and spelling new words.
Learning outcome: ELA.2.A2.1, ELA.2.A2.3 · sounds in words, and rhyme
Unit 2
Sound Detectives
Letter teams that make one sound (sh, ch, th, wh, ee, ai, oa) and clapping syllables.
Learning outcome: ELA.2.A2.1, ELA.2.A2.3, ELA.2.C3.2 · reading and spelling words with common sound patterns
Unit 3
Super Sentences
Starting sentences and names with capitals, and choosing a period, question mark or exclamation mark.
Learning outcome: ELA.2.C2.2, ELA.2.C3.3, ELA.2.C3.4 · complete sentences with capitals and end marks
Unit 4
Story Builders
Reading short stories, then naming the character and setting, explaining why things happened, and retelling events in order.
Learning outcome: ELA.2.B2.6, ELA.2.C2.1 · story parts and retelling
Unit 5
Word Power
Building compound words, finding opposites and spelling plurals (-s and -es).
Learning outcome: ELA.2.A2.4, ELA.2.A2.5 · building vocabulary and word parts
Unit 6
Build Sentences
Telling the four sentence types apart, spotting complete sentences, and joining two ideas into a compound sentence.
Learning outcome: ELA.2.C2.2, ELA.2.C2.3 · simple and compound sentences with precise words
Unit 7
Word Pictures
Spotting similes (comparisons with like or as) and repeated consonant sounds, and what they add to a text.
Learning outcome: ELA.2.C2.3, ELA.2.C2.4 · descriptive word choice
Unit 8
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.
Learning outcome: ELA.2.B2.3, ELA.2.B2.5, ELA.2.B2.6 · predicting, using strategies and recalling information
Unit 9
Text Features
Using a table of contents, charts and icons to find information, and following order words in steps and journal entries.
Learning outcome: ELA.2.B2.1, ELA.2.B2.2 · forms of texts and text features
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