English Language Arts Gr 2 B

The course includes frequent read-alouds that help students build the background knowledge and vocabulary critical to listening and reading comprehension. Students learn by listening to fairy tales, tall tales, myths, and nonfiction texts that include topics related to science and history. Skills instruction continues as students learn more spelling alternatives for vowel sounds and additional tricky spellings. They also practice chunking phonemes to read multisyllabic words. Weekly spelling lessons continue. Students continue to use a writing process as they practice persuasive writing and expository (report) writing.Grammar instruction includes reviews of previously taught skills as well as instruction on adjectives, adverbs, complete sentences, and correcting run-on sentences.Decodable readers for every unit include both fiction and nonfiction selections.