Grade 2 ELA

Blossom and Root Integrated Language Arts

Website: Blossom and Root

Grades PreK - 4. PDF only. The Blossom and Root curriculum incorporates lots of arts and nature activities, and the language arts program is integrated with geography. Levels for kindergarten and first grade levels use mainly picture books, and and then there is a switch to chapter books starting with the second grade level. Blossom and Root provides narration activities and journal prompts, but does not include writing instruction.

Book Award Winners

• Young Reader's Choice Awards - Sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Library Association. Junior Division, Grades 4-6, Intermediate Division: Grades 7-9, Senior Division: Grades 10-12

• Edmonds School District Windows & Mirrors Nominees - Grades 3-8

• Evergreen Teen Book Award - Middle school and high school levels

• Washington Library Association Book Awards - The William C. Towner Award for informational text for grades 2-6; The Sasquatch Award for grade 4-6; The Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award (WCCPBA) for grades K-3; The OTTER Award for grades 1-3.

Brave Writer Mechanics and Literature

Website: Brave Writer Mechanics and Literature

Dart for ages 8-10; Arrow for ages 11-12; Boomerang for ages 13-14; Singshot for ages 15-18. Offered as monthly subscriptions, but single issues, "Literature Singles," are also available. New book titles every year. Digital only.

Each program provides one book title per month along with discussion questions and exercises for improving grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Students may write about the discussion topics, but writing is not the focus of the series. See Brave Writer Writing Projects for information on the writing series.

Build Your Library

Website: Build Your Library

K-12. A literature-based curriculum offering resources for language arts, history, science, and art. The language arts part of the curriculum includes literature to read aloud in each level of the program, as well as readers for students to read independently in levels three and up.

Although Build Your Library does not provide writing instruction, there are writing prompts and suggestions for writing projects, and students do narration, copywork, and dictation. The science and social studies topics in each level differ from what is typically taught in the grade levels of a standards-aligned program, but are still important.

Great Works Instructional Guides for Literature

Website: Great Works

Workbook literature guides grouped by grade band for students in K-3rd, 3rd-5th, 4th-8th, 9th-12th . The guides provide vocabulary work and activities to help understand story elements, and there are comprehension questions which ask students to use evidence from their reading to respond to prompts orally and in writing. Graphic organizers and other tools help students organize their ideas. Some assignments make connections to other subject areas such as science, social studies, and fine arts.

Rigorous Reading: An In-Depth Guide for Any Novel

Website: Rigorous Reading series

The Rigorous Reading literature guides series isn't as extensive as the Great Works Instructional Guides for Literature, but it does offer a couple of workbooks which are not tied to a particular novel and can be used with almost any literature book:

• Rigorous Reading: An In-Depth Guide for Any Novel Grades 3-5

• Rigorous Reading: An In-Depth Guide for Any Novel Grades 6 & Up

Torchlight Curriculum, PreK- 5

Website: Torchlight Curriculum

Each Torchlight level is filled with many contemporary and diverse literature selections, each with a corresponding Literature Primer providing vocabulary and discussion topics. The curriculum also covers poetry, history & social studies, science, and art. Year-long writing projects offer students the opportunity for creative writing tied to the level's themes. Digital PDFs only.