Are you searching for the best English curriculum for your Grade 2 child? Our Grade 2 English program builds on foundational skills and introduces more advanced reading, writing, speaking, and listening concepts. With engaging lessons and activities, students expand their vocabulary, improve comprehension, and develop confidence in expressing themselves. Our experienced tutors provide personalized support to ensure every child excels, no matter their starting point. Explore the curriculum below to see how we help Grade 2 students achieve English language success!

Grade 2 English Curriculum

Reading

Phonics and Word Recognition

Distinguish long and short vowels in regularly spelled one-syllable words

Know spelling-sound correspondences for common vowel teams

Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels

Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes

Identify and read irregularly spelled words

Apply knowledge of syllabication patterns

Fluency

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding

Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression

Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding

Writing

Text Types and Purposes

Write opinion pieces: introduce topic, state opinion, supply reasons, provide concluding statement

Write informative texts: introduce topic, use facts and definitions, provide concluding statement

Write narratives: recount events, include details, use temporal words, provide closure

Production and Distribution of Writing

Focus on a topic and strengthen writing through revision and editing

Use digital tools to produce and publish writing

Participate in shared research and writing projects

Research to Build and Present Knowledge

Recall information from experiences or gather information from sources

Answer questions using information recalled or gathered

Speaking and Listening

Comprehension and Collaboration

Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners

Recount key ideas and details from texts read aloud

Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says

Seek clarification and explanation when needed

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

Tell a story or recount an experience with facts and relevant details

Create audio recordings of stories or poems

Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task

Language

Conventions of Standard English

Use collective nouns (e.g., group, team)

Form and use frequently occurring irregular plural nouns (e.g., feet, children)

Use reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves)

Form and use past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told)

Use adjectives and adverbs appropriately

Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences

Capitalize holidays, product names, geographic names

Use commas in greetings and closings of letters

Use apostrophes to form contractions and possessives

Generalize learned spelling patterns

Consult reference materials as needed for spelling

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

Use sentence-level context as a clue to meaning

Determine the meaning of new words using prefixes and roots

Use glossaries and dictionaries to determine meaning

Identify real-life connections between words and their use

Distinguish shades of meaning among related verbs and adjectives

Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, and being read to

Literature

Key Ideas and Details

Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why questions to demonstrate understanding

Recount stories and determine their central message/moral/lesson

Describe how characters respond to major events and challenges

Craft and Structure

Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning

Describe the structure of a story (beginning, middle, end)

Acknowledge differences in points of view of characters

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Use illustrations and words to demonstrate understanding

Compare and contrast versions of the same stories from different authors or cultures

Informational Text

Key Ideas and Details

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text

Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text

Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas, or steps in procedures

Craft and Structure

Determine the meaning of words and phrases in text

Know and use various text features (captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes)

Identify the main purpose of a text

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

Explain how images contribute to and clarify a text

Describe how reasons support specific points in a text

Compare and contrast the most important points in two texts on the same topic