Elementary Elementary Language Arts Grade 2
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Number of Credits
1.0
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Estimated Completion Time
32-36 weeks
Suggested Prerequisites
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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 One: 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 Two: 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 Three: 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 Four: 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 Five: 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 Six: 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 Seven: 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 Eight: 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 Nine: 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 Ten: 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 Eleven: 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 Twelve: 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