Typical Course of Study

Annotated links for the typical course of study for to help you cover each topic and check mastery of that skill. This is a work in progress that I assume will take a while to complete. I will be adding links and pages periodically.

• Reading silently for purpose
• Dramatizations and interpretative or oral reading
• Use and meaning of quotation marks in reading
• Story development: beginning, middle, end
• Simple book reviews
• Listening skills
• Organizing ideas and impressions
• Alphabetizing through second letter of a word
• Using dictionary guide words
• Vocabulary development
• Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms
• Methods of word attack
• Ways to study spelling
• Simple punctuation and capitalization
• Refining manuscript handwriting
• Writing independently in manuscript form
• Brief and simple letters and journals
• Narration, description, letters, poetry
• Increasing skill in handling books: table of contents, and index

2nd Grade Course of Study

• Social Studies
• Science
• Language Arts
• Health/Safety
• Mathematics

Used by permission of World Book