COURSE OF STUDY OUTLINE

S.Y. 2021-22
By: Marlene Pasco-Cortes/Rosemarie Acosta

DEPARTMENT: Level 2 – Elementary

COURSE TITLE: Language Arts 2

Grade Level: Grade 2

Length: 40 minutes (10 times a week)
Number of Credits: N/A
Prerequisites: N/A

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Grade 2 Language Arts course focuses on the integrated English skills which are reading, vocabulary,
spelling, grammar, speaking, and writing. Students will distinguish and identify the beginning, middle and
ending sounds of letters in words. They will recognize words while reading by using context clues. Read
passages fluently with appropriate changes in voice, timing and expression. Tell the difference between facts
and opinion, realism and fantasy. Enrich vocabularies and spell words correctly when writing sentences and
practiced writing skills by producing informal writings (e.g., messages, journals, friendly letter, and simple
poems) for various purposes that convey clear messages. Students will also use correct subject and verbs
that are in agreement to construct sentences. During role plays, show and tell, and oral presentations,
students will speak clearly and coherently.

RATIONALE FOR THE COURSE

This is to make sure that instructional emphasis is placed on the right skills at the right time and to maintain
systematic sequence of skills instruction. Teaching language arts by integrating all the English skills through
differentiating instruction, monitoring progress, assessing and regrouping gear students to successful
language learning.

ESLG's EMPHASIZED:
 Critical Thinker
 Effective Communicator
 Exemplary Worker
 Caring Citizen
 Self Manager

GOALS, STANDARDS, STUDENTS PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

Standards & Benchmarks ( to be added later )

General Goals:
By the end of the one year program, students should...
Reading and Comprehension

 Practice fluency skills in variety of ways when reading.

 Determine word meaning of unfamiliar words, and multiple-meaning words through context clues.
 Identify literary elements when reading for comprehension skills.
  Apply comprehension skills such as compare and contrast, graphic organizers, sequencing of events,
drawing conclusion, and making predictions in reading and writing
 Differentiate and identify fact and opinion, cause and effect, reality and fantasy

Vocabulary Building, Spelling and Phonics

 Read, write, and apply Phonic rules ( Consonants, consonant blends, diphthongs, vowels, other
vowel patterns)
 Decode base words and inflected endings
 Blend syllables to decode multisyllabic words
 Read high frequency words and lesson vocabulary
 Develop vocabulary through direct instruction, concrete experiences, reading, and listening to text
read aloud.
 Apply word order and concepts ( synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, rhyming, and multiple-meaning
words) in sentences appropriately

English/ Composition

 Read and write phonograms/word families and sentences

 Recognize kinds of sentences ( declarative, interrogative, exclamatory sentences)
 Put correct punctuation at end of a sentence. (Period, question mark, or exclamation point).
 Use contractions, compounds, suffixes and prefixes appropriately
 Identify parts of speech ( nouns, verbs, prepositions, adverbs, and adjectives )
 Use word usage in writing and speaking correctly.
 Speak and write in grammatically correct sentences

Writing
 Write legibly and neatly
 Form letters and words ( with the same size and height ) so they can be easily read by others
 Write legibly and neatly
 Construct fragments and simple sentences
 Write simple poems and stories with guidance
 Write letters or invitations that include relevant information and follow letter format (e.g., date,
proper salutation, body, closing and signature).
 Write simple essay and opinion about a certain theme

Grading system (Weighting)

 Summative Assessment (Unit Test & Quarterly Tests) 30%

 Formative Assessment (quizzes,, class work sheets, homework.) 35%
 Alternative Assessment (oral participation, projects, reports, collaborative work, etc.) 30%
 Homework 5%
 Total 100 %

Date/Quarter Standards and Content Assessment

Benchmarks
First Quarter Unit 1: Friends and Family
August 16- (To be added later) DRA
October 15
1. Friendship Helps Friends TOEFL Junior
 Phonics: short a, short i
 Vocabulary Building: Standardized Test
Inflectional endings (s, (MAP)
 ed)
 Comprehension Diagnostic and
Replacement Test
Strategies and Skills:
Visualize, key details, Formative Assessment
Fantasy
 Fluency: Expression Alternative Assessment
 Writing: Narrative Text
Unit 1 Test
 Grammar: Statement &
Question Summative Assessment
 Spelling: short a, short i

2. Families Around the World

 Phonics: short e, short o,
& short u
 Vocabulary Building: Root
words
 Comprehension
strategies and skills:
Visualize, Character,
Setting, Events, Realistic
fiction
 Fluency: Expression
 Writing: Narrative Test
 Grammar: Commands and
Exclamation
 Spelling: short e, short o,
& short u

3. Pets Are Our Friends

 Phonics: Two –Letter
Blends ( r, s, t, l)
 Vocabulary Building:
Sentence clues
 Comprehension
strategies and skills:
Ask and answer
Questions, Character,
Setting, Events
 Fluency: Intonation
 Writing: Narrative Text
 Grammar: Subjects
 Spelling: Two –Letter
Blends ( r, s, t, l)

4. Animals Need Care

 Phonics: short a, Long a,
 e
 Vocabulary Building: Root
words
 Comprehension
strategies and skills:
Ask and answer
Questions, Key Details,
Narrative nonfiction
 Fluency: Intonation
 Writing: Opinion
 Grammar: Predicates
 Spelling: short a, Long a,
e

5. Families Working Together

 Phonics: Short i, Long i, e
 Vocabulary Building:
Inflectional endings
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Ask and Answer
Questions, Key Details,
Expository Test
 Fluency: Phrasing
 Writing: Informative
Text
 Grammar: Expanding and
Combining Sentence –
Quotation Marks
 Spelling: short a, short i

6. Unit 1 Assessment
 Fluency,Rate,Accuracy
 Writing: Portfolio Choice

Unit 2: Animal Discoveries

7. Animals And Nature
 Phonics: short o, Long
o_e
 Vocabulary Building:
Prefixes
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Revise predictions,
character, setting, plot
  Fluency: Phrasing
 Writing: Narrative Text
 Grammar: Nouns
 Spelling: : short o, Long
o_e

8. Animals in stories
 Phonics: Short u, Long
u_e
 Vocabulary Building:
Suffixes
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Revise predictions,
character, setting, plot
 Fluency: Expression
 Writing: Narrative Text
 Grammar: Singular and
Plural Nouns
 Spelling: Short u, Long
u_e

9. Animal Habitat
 Phonics: Soft c & g/j/
dge, ge, lge, nge, rge
 Vocabulary Building:
Suffixes
 Comprehension
strategies and skills:
Main topic & key details
 Fluency: Phrasing
 Writing: Informative
Text
 Grammar: Kinds of Nouns
 Spelling: Soft c & g/j/
dge, ge, lge, nge, rge

First Quarter Test

October 8- 15, 2021

Second To be added later Unit 2: Animals Discoveries

Quarter (cont.) Alternative/Performance
Assessment
1. Baby Animals
 Phonics: Consonant Formative Assessment
Digraphs- ch, tch,sh, ph,
th, ng, wh
Unit 2 Assessment
  Vocabulary Building: Summative Assessment
Multiple- Meaning words
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Reread, Main Topic, Key
Details
 Fluency: Pronunciation
 Writing: Opinion
 Grammar: Plural Nouns
 Spelling: Consonant
Digraphs- ch, tch,sh, ph,
th, ng, wh

2. Animals in Poem
 Phonics: 3-Lettr Blends –
scr, spr, str, thr, spl, shr
 Vocabulary Building:
Multiple-meaning words
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Main Topic and Key
Details
 Fluency: Pronunciation
 Writing: Narrative Test
 Grammar: Possessive
Nouns
 Spelling: 3-Lettr Blends
– scr, spr, str, thr, spl,
shr

3. Unit 2 Assessment
 Fluency, Rate, Accuracy
 Writing: Portfolio Choice

Unit 3: Live and Learn

4. The Earth’s Forces

 Phonics: Long a: a, ai, ay.
Ea, ei, eigh, ey
 Vocabulary Building:
Similes
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Reread, Author’s Purpose
 Fluency: Intonation
 Writing: Informative
 Text
 Grammar: Action Verbs
 Spelling: Long a: a, ai, ay.
Ea, ei, eigh, ey

5. Look at the Sky

 Phonics: Long i:i, y, igh, ie
 Vocabulary Building:
Compound words
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Reread, Character,
Setting, Plot, Sequence
 Fluency: Intonation
 Writing: Informative
Text
 Grammar: Present-Tense
Verb
 Spelling: Long i: i, y, igh,
ie

6. Ways People Help

 Phonics: Long o: o, oa, ow,
oe
 Vocabulary Building:
Synonyms
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Ask and answer
Questions, Author’s
Purpose
 Fluency: Expression
 Writing: Opinion
 Grammar: Past-and
Future – Tense Verbs
 Spelling: Long o: o, oa,
ow, oe

7. Weather Alert
 Phonics: Long e: e, ee, ea,
ie, y, ey, e_e
 Vocabulary Building:
Antonyms
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Ask and Answer
 Questions, Main ideas
and Key Details
 Fluency: Phrasing
 Writing: Informational
Test
 Grammar: The Verb have
 Spelling: Long e: e, ee,
ea, ie, y, ey, e_e

8. Express Yourself
 Phonics: Long u: u_e, ew,
ue, u
 Vocabulary Building:
Prefixes
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Ask and Answer
Questions, Main Idea and
Key Details
 Fluency: Pronunciation
 Writing: Informative
Test
 Grammar: Combining and
Rearranging Sentence
 Spelling: Long u: u_e, ew,
ue, u

9. Unit 3 Assessment
 Reader’s Theater: Focus
on Vocabulary
 Fluency: Intonation,
Phrasing, & Accuracy
 Writing: Portfolio Choice

Second Quarter
October 18- December 17, 2021
Third Unit 4: Our Life, Our World
Quarter Standardized Test
Jan.8-Mar.16, (MAP)
2018
1. Different Places
 Phonics: Silent Letters: Alternative/Performance
wr, kn, gn, mb, sc Assessment
 Vocabulary Building:
Formative Assessment
Compound Words
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills: Unit 2 Assessment
Reread, Compare and Summative Assessment
 Contrast
 Fluency: Pronunciation
 Writing: Informative
Text
 Grammar: Linking Verbs
 Spelling: Silent Letters:
wr, kn, gn, mb, sc

2. Earth Changes
 Phonics: r-Controlled
Vowels:/ur/, er, ir, ur, or
 Vocabulary Building:
Context clues: Sentence
clues
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Reread, Cause and Effect
 Fluency: Phrasing
 Writing: Informative
Text
 Grammar: Helping Verbs
 Spelling: Phonics: r-
controlled vowels:/ur/,
er, ir, ur, or

3. Our Culture Make Us

Special
 Phonics: r- Controlled
Vowels:/or/ or, ore,
oar;/ar/ ar
 Vocabulary Building:
Similes
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Visualize, Compare and
Contrast
 Fluency: Expression
 Writing: Narrative Text
 Grammar: Irregular
Verbs
 Spelling: r- controlled
vowels:/or/ or, ore,
oar;/ar/ ar

4. Folktales About Nature

 Phonics: r-Controlled
 Vowels:/ir/ eer, ere, ear
 Vocabulary Building: Root
words
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Visualize, Theme
 Fluency: Expression
 Writing: Opinion
 Grammar: Irregular
Verbs
 Spelling: r-Controlled
Vowels:/ir/ eer, ere, ear

5. Poems and Nature

 Phonics: r- Controlled
Vowels: /ar/ are, air, ear,
ere
 Vocabulary Building:
Similes
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Visualize, Theme
 Fluency: Phrasing
 Writing: Informative
Text
 Grammar: Contractions
 Spelling: r- Controlled
Vowels: /ar/ are, air, ear,
ere

6. Unit 4 Assessment
 Reader’s Theater –
Focus Vocabulary
 Fluency: Expression,
Rate, Accuracy
 Writing: Portfolio choice

Unit 5 Let’s Make a

Difference

7. Being a Good Citizen

 Phonics: Diphthongs ow,
ou
 Vocabulary Building:
Suffixes
 Comprehension
 Strategies and Skills:
Summarize, Point of View
 Fluency: Intonation
 Writing: Opinion
 Grammar: Pronouns
 Spelling: Diphthongs ow,
ou

8. Cooperation Works
 Phonics: Diphthongs oi,
oy
 Vocabulary Building:
Idioms
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Summarize Point of View
 Fluency: Expression
 Writing: Opinion
 Grammar: Pronouns I and
Me, We and Us
 Spelling: Diphthongs oi,
oy

9. Our Heroes
 Phonics: Variant
Vowels /u/ oo,u, u_e, ew
 Vocabulary Building:
Synonyms
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Summarize, Sequence
 Fluency: Phrasing
 Writing: Informative
Text
 Grammar: Possessive
pronouns
 Spelling: Variant
Vowels /u/ oo,u, u_e, ew

Third Quarter

Fourth Unit 5: let’s make a

Quarter Difference (cont.) DRA
March 15-
June 2, 2022 Standardized Test
1. Preserving Our Earth (MAP)
 Phonics: Variant
 Vowels: /o/ a, aw, au, Alternative/Performance
augh, al, ough Assessment
 Vocabulary Building: Formative Assessment
Homophone
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills: Unit 2 Assessment
Make, Confirm, Revise,
Predictions, Plot, Problem Summative Assessment
and Solution
 Fluency: Intonation
 Writing: Narrative Text
 Grammar: Contractions
 Spelling: Variant
Vowels: /o/ a, aw, au,
augh, al, ough

2. Right and Rules

 Phonics: Short Vowel
Digraphs:/e/ea;/u/
 Vocabulary Building:
Multiple-Meaning
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Make, Confirm, Revise,
Predictions, Plot, Problem
and Solution
 Fluency: Pronunciation
 Writing: Informative
Text
 Grammar: Pronoun- Verb
Agreement
 Spelling: Variant
Vowels: /o/ a, aw, au,
augh, al, ough

3. Unit 5 Assessment
 Reader’s Theater: Focus
on Vocabulary
 Fluency: Expression,
Rate, Accuracy
 Writing: Portfolio Choice

4. Plant Myths and Facts

 Phonics: Closed Syllables
and Open Syllables
 Vocabulary Building:
 Compound Words
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Reread, Theme
 Fluency: Expression
 Writing: Opinion
 Grammar: Adjectives
 Spelling: Closed Syllables
and Open Syllables

5. We Need Energy
 Phonics: CVC e Syllables
 Vocabulary Building:
Paragraph Clues
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Reread, Author’s Purpose
 Fluency: Intonation
 Writing: Informative
Text
 Grammar: Articles and
this, that, these and
those
 Spelling: CVC e Syllables

6. Team Up To Explore
 Phonics: Consonant + le
( el, al) Syllables
 Vocabulary Building:
Greek and Latin Roots
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Summarize, Main Idea
and key Details
 Fluency: Pronunciation
 Writing: Opinion
 Grammar: Adjective that
Compare
 Spelling: Consonant + le
( el, al) Syllables

7. Money Matters
 Phonics: Vowel Team
Syllables
 Vocabulary Building:
Paragraph Clues
  Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Summarize, Connections
Within Test, Problem and
Solution
 Fluency: Intonation
 Writing: Informative
Text
 Grammar: Adverbs and
Prepositional Phrases
 Spelling: Vowel Team
Syllables

8. The World of Ideas

 Phonics: r-Controlled
Vowel Syllable
 Vocabulary Building:
Metaphors
 Comprehension
Strategies and Skills:
Summarize, Point of view
 Fluency: Expression
 Writing: Narrative Text
 Grammar: Adjectives and
Adverbs
 Spelling: r-Controlled
Vowel Syllable

9. Unit 6 Assessment
 Reader’s Theater: Focus
on Vocabulary
 Fluency: Expression,
Rate, Accuracy

Fourth Quarter Test

May 26- June 1

Skills to be assessed in Language Arts

Vocabulary
Spelling and Phonics
Grammar Skills (speaking and writing)
Writing
Reading

Skills to be assessed in Reading

Word Recognition
Word Comprehension
Sentence Comprehension
Story Comprehension

SUGGESTED TEACHING STRATEGIES:

 Interactive Learning strategies
 Differentiated learning (Leveled Activities)
 Multiple Intelligence based
 Total Physical Response
 Role Play
 Games
 Peer Questioning
 Small-Group Interaction
 Discussion

EVALUATION TECHNIQUES:

 Diagnosis and placement Test

 Monitoring progress/ Formative assessment ( Rubric)
 Unit Benchmark Test
 Formative and Summative Tests

RESOURCES:

Mc Grawhill
Scott Foresman (2007). Reading Street 2. Pearson Education Inc.USA.
Books from the Library

Janice Yue (2000. Vocabulary Builder. Peasron Education Asia Pte Ltd. Singapore.

Scott Foresman (n.d.) Grammar and Writing Practice Book

revised summerjune/17