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ENGLISH-CLASS-2

This course follows the Common Core State Standards for 2nd grade English.

Reading skills are developed and enhanced so that students are able to answer and ask questions such as who, what, where, why, and when about a story. Students will develop an understanding of how the rhythm, structure, and points of view add meaning to a story. Writing skills will also be improved, as students will be asked to state and support opinions, explain how to complete a task, and tell a story with written word. A student’s use of the English language will be improved upon by having the student practice using collective nouns, irregular plural nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Students will be asked to remember conventions dealing with capitalization, comma usage, apostrophe usage, and spelling patterns when writing.

By the end of the course students should have developed better speaking and listening skills, such as building on others’ comments in conversations, asking questions about what a speaker says, being able to tell a story in front of others, and providing complete sentences when asked to clarify a thought or idea. The students should be able to mentally add or subtract numbers in tens or hundreds. Third, the students will learn to use standard units of measurement. They will learn to understand why standard units are important and will practice using rulers and other tools for measurement. Fourth, the students will become proficient at describing and analyzing shapes by counting their numbers of sides and angles. Analyzing two- and three-dimensional shapes to provide a foundation for understanding area, volume, similarity, and symmetry.

Course Outline

Course Introduction

Nouns, Vowels, Charlotte’s Web

Simple Sentences, Baby Farm Animals, Asking Questions

Proper Nouns, Sarah Plain and Tall, Bugs

Commas, Art, Retelling a Story

Pronouns, Morals, Tops and Bottoms

Verb Tense, Irregular Verbs, Cats

Possessive Nouns, A Drop of Water, KWL

Prefixes, Adjectives and Adverbs, Rain

Abbreviations, Cinderella, Writing Poetry

Root Words, Contractions, To The Zoo

Statements, Questions, Poppleton in the Water

Exclaimations, Commands, Where You Live

Subject and Predicate, The Story of Ruby Bridges

Writing Letters, Kyle Gets Mail

Sequence, How a Seed Grows, From Seed to Plant

Making Connections, Reasons to Write, Plant Research

Main Ideas, Outlines, Moonshot

Figurative Language, A Medieval Feast

Course Evaluation

This course follows the Common Core State Standards for 3rd grade English.