US homeschool curriculum · 2nd grade
2nd Grade Language Arts
A self-paced online Language Arts course for 2nd grade: 27 lessons across 7 units. A short placement quiz finds the right starting point, practice adapts as your child answers, and every lesson is marked automatically with progress reported to you.
- Every lesson has at least two different question styles, with hints and step-by-step worked solutions.
- Struggling triggers a gentler re-teach and a warm-up on the missing building block — never a visible drop in score.
- Work this course at its own level: a child can take 2nd Grade Language Arts alongside a different grade in Math.
What your child learns
The scope and sequence below is generated from the live curriculum, so it is always what the app actually teaches.
Phonics and word reading
- Read words with prefixes: Can read a word made from a prefix such as dis-, mis-, re- or super- and a root word.
- Same letters, different sounds: Can tell when ch, ou or y make a different sound from usual (chemist, young, gym).
- Read 2nd and 3rd grade tricky words: Can read words such as believe, difficult, heard and thought in a sentence.
Spelling
- Choose the right prefix: Can choose between un-, dis-, mis-, in-, im-, il- and ir- to make words like impossible and irregular.
- Add -ly, changing the ending if needed: Can spell words like happily, gently and basically.
- Spell -sure, -ture, -tion, -sion and -cian words: Can spell words like treasure, picture, station and musician.
- 2nd and 3rd grade homophones: Can choose between homophones such as brake/break, peace/piece and weather/whether.
- Word families: Can spot a word from the same family as a given root word (solve → solution).
- Spell ei/eigh/ey and ou words: Can spell words like eight, neighbor, obey, young and touch.
- Spell 2nd and 3rd grade tricky words: Can spell words such as believe, difficult, heard and thought.
Grammar
- Conjunctions for time and cause: Can choose when, before, after, while, so or because to join two ideas.
- Find the adverb: Can pick out the adverb in a sentence.
- Find the preposition: Can pick out the preposition in a sentence.
- Use has or have with the right verb form: Can pick the correct present perfect form, such as 'She has eaten', not 'She has ate'.
- Choose a heading for a paragraph: Can choose the heading that best fits a paragraph.
- a or an by sound: Can choose a or an by the sound a word starts with (an hour, a uniform).
Punctuation
- Quotation marks for speech: Can pick the sentence that punctuates direct speech correctly.
- its or it's, whose or who's, your or you're: Can choose between its/it's, whose/who's and your/you're.
Vocabulary
- What a prefix means: Can say what a prefix such as sub-, super-, inter- or auto- means.
- Choose a richer synonym: Can choose a word with the same meaning as a given word, such as courageous for brave.
- Work out an unfamiliar word from context: Can use the sentence to work out what an unfamiliar word like trudged or perilous means.
Reading comprehension
- Work out why a character did something: Can use evidence in the text to explain a character's actions or feelings.
- Find the main idea of a paragraph: Can say what a paragraph is mainly about.
- Retrieve information from non-fiction: Can find and record a specific piece of information in a non-fiction text.
- Why the author chose that word: Can explain what effect a chosen word has on the reader.
Writing
- Proofread for spelling, grammar and punctuation: Can spot the sentence with no mistakes, including quotation marks and apostrophes.
- Keep a paragraph on topic: Can spot the sentence that does not belong in a paragraph.
Language Arts uses American spelling, punctuation and conventions throughout. It is not mapped to the Common Core ELA standards — the lesson list above is the honest description of what it teaches.