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TX.110.4.English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 2, Adopted 2017

English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 2, Adopted 2017
2.10. Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student a
2.10.A. Discuss the author's purpose for writing text.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Author's Purpose
 
2.10.B. Discuss how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose.
Flip Charts Story Order
Flip Charts Story Parts
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Author's Purpose
 
2.10.E. Identify the use of first or third person in a text.
 
2.11. Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student is expected t
2.11.A. Plan a first draft by generating ideas for writing such as drawing and brainstorming.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Writing Process
 
2.11.B. Develop drafts into a focused piece of writing by:
2.11.B.i. Organizing with structure.
Flip Charts Punctuation Marks
 
2.11.D. Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
2.11.D.i. Complete sentences with subject-verb agreement.
Flip Charts Simple Sentences
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Grammar Skills
 
2.11.D.ii. Past, present, and future verb tense.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Past Tense (-ed)
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Verb Endings
 
2.11.D.iii. Singular, plural, common, and proper nouns.
Flip Charts Plurals
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Grammar
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Nouns
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Nouns
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Plural Ending -es
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Plurals
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Proper Nouns
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Verb Endings
 
2.11.D.iv. Adjectives, including articles.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Adjectives
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Grammar
 
2.11.D.v. Adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey place.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Grammar
 
2.11.D.vi. Prepositions and prepositional phrases.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Grammar
 
2.11.D.vii. Pronouns, including subjective, objective, and possessive cases.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Nouns
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Pronouns
 
2.11.D.x. End punctuation, apostrophes in contractions, and commas with items in a series and in dates.
Flip Charts Punctuation Marks
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Capitalization/Punctuation
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Contractions
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Contractions
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Grammar
 
2.12. Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful. The student is expected to:
2.12.C. Compose correspondence such as thank you notes or letters.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Friendly Letter
 
2.2. Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning reading and writing. The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morpholo
2.2.A. Demonstrate phonological awareness by:
2.2.A.i. Producing a series of rhyming words.
Flip Charts Rhyming Words
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Rhyming Words
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Rhyming Words
 
2.2.A.ii. Distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds in one-syllable and multi-syllable words.
Flip Charts Letters A & B
Flip Charts Letters E & F
Flip Charts Letters I & J
Flip Charts Letters O & P
Flip Charts Letters U & V
Flip Charts Vowel Sounds
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Long and Short Vowel Discrimination
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Long/Short Vowels
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Short Vowel Discrimination
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Short Vowel Sound
 
2.2.A.iv. Manipulating phonemes within base words.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Multiple Meaning
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Root Words
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Root Words/Prefixes/Suffixes
 
2.2.B. Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by:
2.2.B.i. Decoding words with short, long, or variant vowels, trigraphs, and blends.
Flip Charts Letters A & B
Flip Charts Letters E & F
Flip Charts Letters I & J
Flip Charts Letters O & P
Flip Charts Letters U & V
Flip Charts Vowel Sounds
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Beginning Digraphs
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Consonant Blends
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Consonant Blends and Digraphs
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Ending Digraphs
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Long and Short Vowel Discrimination
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Long/Short Vowels
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Short Vowel Discrimination
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Short Vowel Sound
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Words with Ending Blends
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Words with Initial Blends
 
2.2.B.iii. Decoding multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables; and final stable syllables.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Beginning Digraphs
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Consonant Blends
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Consonant Blends and Digraphs
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Ending Digraphs
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide oo Vowel Sound
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide R Controlled Vowels
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide R Controlled Vowels
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Vowel Digraphs
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Vowel Diphthongs
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Words with Ending Blends
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Words with Initial Blends
 
2.2.B.iv. Decoding compound words, contractions, and common abbreviations.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Abbreviations
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Compound Words
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Compound Words
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Contractions
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Contractions
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Grammar
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Main Idea
 
2.2.B.vi. Decoding words with prefixes, including un-, re-, and dis-, and inflectional endings, including -s, -es, -ed, -ing, -er, and –est.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Continuous Action (-ing)
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Prefixes
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Word Meaning with Prefixes/Suffixes
 
2.2.B.vii. Identifying and reading high-frequency words from a research-based list.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Frequently Misspelled Words
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide High Frequency Words II
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide High Frequency Words I
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide High Frequency Words I
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide High Frequency Words I
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide High Frequency Words II
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide High Frequency Words II
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Sight Words I
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Sight Words II
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Sight Words III
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Sight Words IV
 
2.2.C. Demonstrate and apply spelling knowledge by:
2.2.C.i. Spelling one-syllable and multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables; and final stable syllables.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Beginning Digraphs
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Consonant Blends
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Consonant Blends and Digraphs
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Ending Digraphs
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide oo Vowel Sound
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide R Controlled Vowels
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide R Controlled Vowels
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Vowel Digraphs
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Vowel Diphthongs
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Words with Ending Blends
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Words with Initial Blends
 
2.2.C.iii. Spelling compound words, contractions, and common abbreviations.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Abbreviations
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Compound Words
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Compound Words
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Contractions
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Contractions
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Grammar
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Main Idea
 
2.2.C.iv. Spelling multisyllabic words with multiple sound-spelling patterns.
Flip Charts Common Words
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Spelling
 
2.2.C.v. Spelling words using knowledge of syllable division patterns, including words with double consonants in the middle of the word.
Flip Charts Counting Syllables
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Syllables
 
2.2.C.vi. Spelling words with prefixes, including un-, re-, and dis-, and inflectional endings, including -s, -es, -ed, -ing, -er, and –est.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Continuous Action (-ing)
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Prefixes
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Word Meaning with Prefixes/Suffixes
 
2.2.D. Alphabetize a series of words and use a dictionary or glossary to find words.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Alphabetizing
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Dictionary/Thesaurus/Parts of a Book
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Grammar
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Parts of a Book
 
2.3. Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively. The student is expected to:
2.3.A. Use print or digital resources to determine meaning and pronunciation of unknown words.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Dictionary/Thesaurus/Parts of a Book
 
2.3.B. Use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Context Clues
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Context Clues
 
2.3.D. Identify, use, and explain the meaning of antonyms, synonyms, idioms, and homographs in context.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Antonyms
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Grammar
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Synonyms
 
2.6. Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts. The student is expected to:
2.6.B. Generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information.
 
2.6.C. Make, correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Predicting Endings
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Predictions
 
2.6.E. Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.
Flip Charts Comparing Stories
 
2.6.F. Make inferences and use evidence to support understanding.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Inference
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Main Idea/Supporting Details
 
2.6.G. Evaluate details read to determine key ideas.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Main Idea
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Main Idea/Supporting Details
 
2.6.I. Monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, checking for visual cues, and asking questions when understanding breaks down.
 
2.7. Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to:
2.7.A. Describe personal connections to a variety of sources.
 
2.7.B. Write brief comments on literary or informational texts that demonstrate an understanding of the text.
 
2.7.C. Use text evidence to support an appropriate response.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Main Idea/Supporting Details
 
2.7.D. Retell and paraphrase texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order.
Flip Charts Retelling Stories
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Story Retell
 
2.7.F. Respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate.
2.8. Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse li
2.8.A. Discuss topics and determine theme using text evidence with adult assistance.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Main Idea/Supporting Details
 
2.8.B. Describe the main character's (characters') internal and external traits.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Literary Elements
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Story Elements
 
2.8.C. Describe and understand plot elements, including the main events, the conflict, and the resolution, for texts read aloud and independently.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Literary Elements
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Problem/Solution
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Story Elements
 
2.8.D. Describe the importance of the setting.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Literary Elements
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Settings
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Story Elements
 
2.9. Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporar
2.9.A. Demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, and fairy tales.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Genre
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Literary Genres
 
2.9.B. Explain visual patterns and structures in a variety of poems.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Genre
 
2.9.C. Discuss elements of drama such as characters, dialogue, and setting.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Literary Elements
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Literary Genres
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Settings
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Story Elements
 
2.9.D. Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including:
2.9.D.i. The central idea and supporting evidence with adult assistance.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Main Idea
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game Main Idea/Supporting Details
 
2.9.D.ii. Features and graphics to locate and gain information.
Flip Charts Rebus Story
 
2.9.D.iii. Organizational patterns such as chronological order and cause and effect stated explicitly.
Flip Charts Story Order
 
2.9.E. Recognize characteristics of persuasive text, including:
2.9.E.ii. Distinguishing facts from opinion.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Fact/Fiction/Opinion