Grade 2 English – United States
Grade 2 English
This is the FutureSchool Grade 2 English course for students in the United States. It is matched to the Common Core State Standards, and to the state standards where a state sets its own. The course holds 25 lessons. Each lesson has a short video, worked examples and a printable worksheet. Lessons cover It’s time to learn your A B C!, It’s time to learn how to tell the time!, School and Play and It’s Christmas time!, and more. Your child takes an assessment first, and the course then builds a study plan that names the lessons to work on. A lesson can be repeated as often as your child wants.
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| # | TOPIC | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It’s time to learn your A B C! | It’s time! | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a short text about asking and telling the time on the hour and half hour. | ||||
| 2 | It’s time to learn how to tell the time! | No school! It’s Sunday! | ||
| Objective: Students will increase their vocabulary and develop their reading skills by reading a short text about daily routines. | ||||
| 3 | It’s time to learn how to tell the time! | Where are my clothes? | ||
| Objective: Students will increase their vocabulary and develop their reading skills by reading a short text about items of clothing. They will learn about the prepositions – ‘on’, ‘under’, ‘in’. | ||||
| 4 | School and Play | I have lots of subjects! Full lesson available | ||
| Objective: Students will practice reading, and saying words and simple sentences to describe school subjects and the days of the week. | ||||
| 5 | School and Play | On the Weekend | ||
| Objective: Students will practice reading and recognizing simple sentences about weekend activities. | ||||
| 6 | It’s Christmas time! | It’s time for Math! | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a short text in which quarter past, quarter to, 5 past, 5 to, 10 past and 10 to the hour are used. | ||||
| 7 | It’s Christmas time! | Festivals are fun! | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a short text about Christmas and Chinese New Year. | ||||
| 8 | I walk in the summer. | The Seasons | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their reading skills and practice new words to describe the seasons. | ||||
| 9 | I walk in the summer. | How do you go to school? | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their reading skills and practice new words that describe modes of transport. They will also ask and answer questions about transport to different places. | ||||
| 10 | What’s the weather like today? | It’s a sunny day! | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story about the weather. | ||||
| 11 | What are you doing now? | Shhhh! Dad is sleeping! | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story in which the present continuous tense is used. | ||||
| 12 | What are you doing now? | We are having a picnic! | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story in which the present continuous tense is used to ask and answer questions. | ||||
| 13 | They’re usually in the lounge room. | Hide and Seek | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story about finding people. | ||||
| 14 | They’re usually in the lounge room. | An Unusual Day | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story in which the simple present and the continuous present tenses are used. They will also learn the little words that help to sequence a story. | ||||
| 15 | Left! Right! Let’s go! | Where’s the shop? | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story in which simple directions are given using the imperative. | ||||
| 16 | Left! Right! Let’s go! | Ladies and Gentlemen! | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story in which the present continuous tense is used to talk about a concert. | ||||
| 17 | Up, down and around we go! | Roller-coaster Ride | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story in which routes are described using the present continuous tense. | ||||
| 18 | Up, down and around we go! | Catch that car! | ||
| Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story which focuses on street directions and places. | ||||
| 19 | Sentences | The Sentence | ||
| Objective: To identify and use complete sentences. | ||||
| 20 | Spelling | Spelling | ||
| Objective: To use the ‘Look, Say, Write’ method for learning spelling. Plus 300 spelling words. | ||||
| 21 | Capitalization | Capital Letters 1 | ||
| Objective: To use capital letters correctly: to begin sentences, for proper nouns. | ||||
| 22 | Vowels and Consonants | Vowels and Consonants | ||
| Objective: To identify and use vowels and consonants. | ||||
| 23 | Common Nouns | Common Nouns | ||
| Objective: To show a common noun names an object or thing. | ||||
| 24 | Punctuation | Sentence Endings | ||
| Objective: To use full-stops, question marks, exclamation marks and capital letters correctly. | ||||
| 25 | Verbs | Simple Verbs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use verbs. To understand a verb can be: an action or doing word, a state of being or ownership. | ||||



