Grade 2 - Conventions & Vocabulary - Alberta Language - Lesson/Workbook Bundle

Grade 2 - Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit - Alberta Language Curriculum - Lesson/Workbook Bundle. This bundle was created to provide everything you need to teach the Grade 2 Language Conventions and Vocabulary unit in the Alberta Language Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbook, which contains fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Workbook Details:
This resource covers all skills and procedures in the organizing ideas: Vocabulary, Conventions, Phonics, Phonological Awareness, and Fluency (ELA). The 473 pages teach the skills and procedures in these four curriculum areas.

Included in this unit are 30 weeks of ELA instruction, with weekly word lists that explicitly teach consonant clusters as well as vowel teams. Along with these Science of Reading principles, we have weaved in the skills and procedures students in grade 2 need to learn while working with these word lists.

Included in this resource are the organizing ideas below:

Vocabulary – figurative language, tier 2 and tier 3 words, synonyms, antonyms, homographs and homophones

Fluency – developing automaticity in reading complex words, phrases, and continuous text. Also, students will read the over 300 high frequency words fluently and with expression, and appropriate pace.

Phonics – consonant clusters at the beginning and ending of words, as well as diagraphs, silent letters, and long/short vowel sounds.

Phonological Awareness – substituting, deleting, and adding phonemes to create new words.

 

Conventions – sentence types, contractions, apostrophes, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization skills.

Some of the concepts covered:

• Base Words
• Common Suffixes (e.g., -ing, -ed, -er)
• Common Prefixes (e.g., un-, re-, dis-)
• Compound Words
• Position-based Tendencies (E.G., I Before E, Q And Then U)
• Bossy E (Magic E) Concept – CVCe Spelling Pattern
• Spelling Patterns – CVCe, VCC, VVC
• Soft And Hard Sounds – C And G
• Different Letter Sound: Y As A Vowel Or Consonant
• Blending Sounds In Words That Have Up To 6 Phonemes
• Manipulating Sounds – Regular/Irregular Words (Short/Long Vowel Sounds, Silent Letters, Irregular Blends)
• Adding Phonemes, Deleting Phonemes, Substituting Phonemes To Change Words, Including Blends
• Word Families & Rhyming Words
• Commonly Misspelled Words
• Antonyms And Synonyms
• Homophones And Homographs
• Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, And Repetition
• Reading Accuracy: Words & Sentences
• Pacing In Paragraph Reading & Reading Punctuation
• Strategies For Expressive Reading Aloud
• Types Of Sentences - Interrogative, Imperative, Declarative, And Exclamatory
• Using Different Punctuation
• Parts Of Speech Overview (E.G., Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Prepositions)
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Personal Pronouns: Usage And Examples
• Decoding Reading Strategies: Breaking Words Into Chunks, Visualizing, and Using Context
• Using Dictionaries to Learn Word Meanings
• Compound Sentences & Conjunctions (FANBOYS)
• Capitalization Rules (E.G., Start Of A Sentence, Proper Nouns)
• Punctuation Rules (E.G., Apostrophes, Commas In Lists, Quotation Marks)
• Fluency Readings For Each Week To Reinforce Word List Vocabulary
• Weekly Quizzes (30 Different Assessments)
• Answer Pages For All Activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 2 - Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit - Google Lesson Slides - Alberta Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit, Grade 2, New 2023 Alberta Language Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals

- Discussion Questions

- Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Drawing

- Writing

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- Quizzes

- Reflection

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download a copy of this file to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.