Elementary English - Grade Two1: Recognizing Words - Listening
- Identify speech sound heard
- initial consonant blends
- initial and medial vowel sounds
- words with dipthongs
- Discriminate speech sounds heard
- critical consonant and vowel sounds e.g. . /s/ vs. /z/; /ae/ vs. /ey/
- Speaking
- Improve pronunciation skills.
- Use
- initial consonant blends
- initial and medial vowel sounds
- critical consonant sounds
- critical vowel sounds
- Reading
- Associate names of objects, pictures with printed symbols
- Read automatically high frequency words in running print
- Recognize words using spelling patterns:
- c - v - v - c
- c - v - c - c
- consonant clusters in initial and final position
- consonant clusters and blends in initial and final position
- Writing
- Copy legibly, accurately and neatly in manuscript form of given text.
- sentences
- paragraphs
- rhymes/poems learned
2: Intonation abd Expressions - Listening
- Recognize the rising and falling intonation in:
- yes-no questions
- wh- questions
- statements
- Speaking
- Use courteous expressions in appropriate situations
- greeting others
- taking leave
- offering help
- Ask and answer questions
- Use short answer forms to questions e.g. Who is your teacher?, Does the dog bark?
- Reading
- Increase one’s vocabulary by learning synonyms and antonyms of common words
- Writing
- Use capital letters in writing one’s address, names of persons, subjects, the beginning letter of the first word in a sentence
- Write common abbreviations e.g Mr., Mrs.
- Copy words in alphabetical order
3: Giving and Following Directions - Listening
- Follow simple one-step directions heard
- Speaking
- Reading
- Do accurately slow reading to follow a simple one-step direction
- Follow printed directions for test taking
- Writing
- Copy paragraph observing indention, capitalization and punctuation
4: Rhymes - Listening
- Identify words that rhyme in 2-3 stanza poems
- Speaking
- Recite short verses, two-stanza poems with correct intonation and stress
- Reading
- Pantomime/act out rhymes and jingles
- Feel the rhythm through clapping, etc.
- Writing
- Copy poems/rhymes accurately
5: Getting the Main Idea - Listening
- Give the main idea of a selection listened to
- Tell what the story is about
- Speaking
- Talk about oneself/others things/events
- Use nouns
- This/that with singular form of nouns
- Plural form of regular noun
- These are/those are with plural noun
- Use possessive pronouns (My, You, His, Her, Your)
- Use the pronoun that agrees in gender with its antecedent
- Reading
- Get the main idea
- Tell what the set of related pictures is about
- Give the appropriate heading for a set of
- Group similar ideas under proper heading
- Distinguish big ideas from small ideas
- Writing
- Demonstrate readiness skills in cursive writing
- Write important dates, abbreviations in cursive
- Birthday
- Days of the week
- Months
- Address
6: Noting Details - Listening
- Note details in selection listened to
- Speaking
- Use verbs
- Use simple present form of verbs with singular/plural nouns as subject
- Use the -ing form of verbs (verbs of being)
- Use the simple past of the verbs commonly used
- Use positive/negative form of auxiliary verbs
- Use two-word verb
- Reading
- Note details in short paragraph, poems, stories read
- Note explicit details
- descriptive words
- identify characters, setting etc. of the story
- Note implied details
- Writing
- Write from dictation
- Phrases
- Simple sentences
- Sentences in paragraph form
7: Organizing Ideas - Listening
- Retell best-liked parts of a story heard
- Speaking
- Use adjectives to describe people, animals, places
- Use the positive form of regular adjectives
- Reading
- Organize ideas
- Group pictures showing similar ideas
- Identify words/phrases sentences that go with a given concept/idea
- Writing
- Write sentences/short paragraph about the pictures
8: Sequencing Events - Listening
- Act out best-liked parts of a story heard
- Speaking
- Use preposition and prepositional phrase
- Reading
- Sequence events
- Tell what happened first, second, etc.
- Tell what happened before/after an event
- Arrange words alphabetically based on the first letter
- Writing
- Write the correct spelling of words learned in auditory discrimination
9: Perceiving Relationships - Listening
- Impersonate well-liked characters in a story heard
- Speaking
- Talk about topics of interest in 3-4 sentences
- Reading
- Perceive relationship shown in pictures
- Identify the cause of a given effect
- Infer details in passages that are not signaled explicitly
- Writing
- Write sentences from a picture stimulus
10: Predicting Outcomes - Listening
- Give a possible ending to a situation/story heard
- Reading
- Predict outcomes
- Tell the possible ending of a situation presented through pictures
- Give events that could happen next
- Writing
- Write a different story ending to a story read/heard
11: Making Inferences - Listening
- Make inferences
- Infer hidden information from oral texts
- Reading
- Infer
- what have happened before/after an event
- Writing
- Write a composition about a given topic
- Prepare an invitation card based on a model
- Write short notes to friends/family member
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