Reflecting the expectations, activities in Language Arts (English) series cover:
| Reasoning and Critical Thinking |
- Visual discrimination: finding missing letters and words; grouping and sorting like and unlike words; matching words and pictures
- Story concepts: finding the best title, the main idea, the best ending; sequencing plot events, identifying the characters
- Comprehension: discriminating between true and false, cause and effect; recalling key factual details
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| Understanding form and style |
- Word patterns: using predictable word patterns from speech to determine word order (eg. noun followed by verb) in a sentence; using knowledge of word endings to recognize same word in different forms
- Sentence structure: disruptive sentences; statements; questions, commands, explanations; combining sentences into paragraphs
- Recognizing different forms: poems, stories, children’s dictionary, letters
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| Vocabulary Building |
- Phonics: short and long vowel sounds and families; variant vowels; words of more than one syllable, noun plurals, words ending in ‘ing’
- Adding new words, days of week, months of the year; complex rhyming words
- Word structure: finding compound words; breaking words into syllables; building compound words; more prefixes and suffixes
- Developing dictionary skills: placing words in alphabetical order; using guidewords; finding synonyms and antonyms
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| Use of Language Conventions |
- Grammar: identify types of nouns and simple verb tenses; using adjectives, connecting words, negatives
- Punctuation using different end punctuation(? . !) and apostrophes
- Spelling: rules for vowels and single syllable words; finding spelling errors
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Also see: Grade 2 Math Curriculum
