Grade 2 - Ontario Language - Lessons/Workbook Mega Bundle

This mega bundle provides everything you need to teach all the units in the Grade 2 Ontario 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 workbooks, which contain fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Foundations of Language Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Base Words
• Common Suffixes (e.g., -ing, -ed, -er)
• Common Prefixes (e.g., un-, re-, dis-)
• Position-based Tendencies (e.g., I before E, Q and then U)
• Bossy E (Magic E) Concept
• Soft and Hard Sounds – C and G
• Different Letter Sound: Y as a Vowel or Consonant
• Decoding Monosyllabic Words
• Word Families & Rhyming Words
• Decoding Strategy: Using Context
• Commonly Misspelled Words
• 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)
• Personal Pronouns: Usage and Examples
• 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 – One For Each Week To Practice Reading Vocabulary Words
• Fun Weekly Word Work – Wordsearch, Crossword, Coding, Hidden Word, Sudokus
• Oral Communication – Simon Says, Story Recap, Active Listening Circles, Topic Jar
• Oral Communication – Charades, Facial Expression Circle, Expression Says
• Oral Communication – Vocabulary Relay, Grammar Police, Descriptive Storytelling
• Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
• Answer pages for all activities

Composition (Writing) Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Types of text forms – when to use each one (narratives, letters/emails, procedural writing, reports, etc.)
• Experiment – writing with planning time versus writing without planning time (no brainstorming)
• Personal voice in writing
• How to write descriptive sentences
• How to write a paragraph – topic sentence (hook), body, conclusion
• Formal versus informal letter writing – voice in our writing
• Purpose and audience in letter writing – effect on our voice
• Writing personal narratives
• Setting and character development
• Narratives with a beginning, middle, and ending
• Publishing personal narratives
• Analyzing quality stories – building success criteria
• Activity – Story Swap Revision Party
• Opinion writing – being persuasive
• Fact or fiction – which is more persuasive?
• Researching – finding facts to support our opinion
• Procedural writing – instructions
• Writing instructions for simple tasks
• Sequencing the order of instructions
• Writing and publishing instructions
• Report writing – a quick guide
• Activity – Idea Factory
• Writing reports – using the facts provided to organize a report
• How to research effectively
• Activity – Online Treasure Hunt
• Types of poems – Haiku, Limerick, Rhyming, and Acrostic Poetry
• Illustrating a poetry children’s book
• Writing book reviews
• Summarizing books for our book reviews
• Printing practice: 16-page package
• Answer pages for all activities

Reading Comprehension Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is reading comprehension?
• Before reading: comprehension strategies – activating prior knowledge and reasons for reading
• During reading: comprehension strategies – questioning, making connections, inferences, predictions, visualizing
• After reading: comprehension strategies – summarizing, making inferences, visualizing
• Letter writing – emails, formal and informal letters, writing with voice
• Cohesive ties – using linking words (conjunctions, pronouns, and transition words) in letter writing
• Narratives – use of literary devices: similes and consonance
• Perspective in narratives – first-person and third-person
• Narratives – sequencing multiple plots in a story and explaining cause and effect
• Indigenous storytelling – learning about different symbols, languages, and values
• Cross-curricular connections – science and social studies (water, growth of animals, changing families, etc.)
• Persuasive writing – using critical thinking skills to determine bias
• Using facts or opinions in persuasive writing
• Finding implicit and explicit evidence in persuasive texts
• Making inferences about persuasive texts
• What is procedural writing?
• Text features and text patterns of procedural writing – instruction booklets, how-to-guides
• Sequencing the steps in a how-to-guide
• Using graphics to enhance procedural texts
• Indigenous connection: how-to-guides for drawing Totem Poles, Igloos
• Text features in reports – index, glossary, timelines, headings, table of contents, charts, icons, etc.
• Reports on diversity, inclusion, and accessibility
• Use of infographics, timelines, maps, diagrams, and pictures in reports
• Literary devices used in poetry – similes and consonance
• Assignment – examining poems written by Indigenous authors
• Reading different styles (voices) in book reviews
• Text features in comics, infographics, memes, and maps
• How images, graphics, and visuals contribute to biographies
• Text features in biographies – using a table of contents, icons, and indexes to understand a biography
• Biographies – Albert Einstein, Terry Fox, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Hawking: Table of Contents, Glossary
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 2 - Google Lesson Slides - Ontario Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Grade 2, Ontario 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

- Polls/Surveys

- Picture Prompts

- Jokes and Riddles

- Relevant Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Sorting

- Polls/Surveys and Graphing

- Embedded YouTube Videos

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- 3-2-1 Reflections

- One Word Reflections

- Act It Out!

- Quick Draw

- One Sentence Summary

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download copies of the Google Slides for the three different units to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.