Language Arts 2

Language Skills

• Composition—Students practice writing as a process: prewriting, writing a draft, revising, proofreading, and publishing (sharing finished work with others).
• Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics—Students learn basic rules of usage (such as “may” vs. “can,” and “lie” vs. “lay”), synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, parts of speech, punctuation, and more.
• Vocabulary—Wordly Wise provides practice in word study skills, reading comprehension, and word analysis.
• Primary Analogies—Students develop test-taking and critical-thinking skills as they connect words and ideas.
• Handwriting—Handwriting Without Tears helps students develop printing skills and, if appropriate, begin cursive handwriting.
• Public Speaking—Reciting a poem or reading a literary passage helps students address a group confidently.
• Spelling—Students learn to understand sound-symbol relationships and patterns.

Literature

Guided reading lessons offer new challenges: greater length, more complex content, and new vocabulary. The emphasis is on classic literature that embodies exemplary virtues, including Aesop’s fables, “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” and “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.” Readings also include nonfiction works.


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Standard Curriculum Items

• Printing Teacher’s Guide
• Handwriting Without Tears: Cursive Handwriting
• Handwriting Without Tears: Printing Power
• Surprises, a book of poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
• EPS Primary Analogies Book 2
• EPS Reading Comprehension Book A
• EPS Wordly Wise 3000 Book A
• K¹² Classics for Young Readers, Vol. 2
• Listen My Children: Poems for 2nd Graders (Core Knowledge Foundation)
• White dry erase board
• Regular double-lined paper
• Cursive alphabet desk strips
• Printed alphabet desk strips

Additional Curriculum Items

Some lessons require additional resources, including common household items, and books that are readily available in your local library or for purchase:

• A Weed Is a Flower by Aliki (Aladdin, 1988)
• Buddy the First Seeing Eye Dog by Eva Moore (Scholastic, 1996)
• Chang's Paper Pony by Eleanor Coerr (HarperCollins, 1993)
• Clara and the Bookwagon by Nancy Levinson (HarperCollins, 1988)
• Crow Boy by Taro Yashima (Puffin Books, 1983)
• George the Drummer Boy by Nathaniel Benchley (HarperCollins, 1987)
• Knights of the Round Table (“Bullseye Step into Classics” edition) by Gwen Gross (Random House, 1985)
• Long Way to a New Land by Joan Sandin (HarperCollins, 1981)
• Peter Pan (“Bullseye Step into Classics” edition) by J.M. Barrie, retold by Cathy East Dubowski (Random House, 1994)
• Robin Hood (“Bullseye Step into Classics” edition) by Annie Ingle (Random House, 1993)
• Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine by Evaline Ness (Henry Holt, 1966)
• Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley (HarperCollins, 1987)
• The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh (Simon & Schuster, 1991)
• The Josefina Story Quilt by Eleanor Coerr (HarperCollins, 1986)
• The Long Way Westward by Joan Sandin (HarperCollins, 1992)
• Tye May and the Magic Brush by Molly Garrett Bang (Mulberry Books, 1981)
• Wagon Wheels by Barbara Brenner (HarperCollins, 1993)

NOTE: List subject to change.
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Total lessons: 180

Lesson time: 120 minutes

You might choose to split the lessons into smaller segments and provide breaks for your student as needed. The K¹² online lesson tracking system allows you to pick up wherever you left off in any given lesson