2nd grade homeschool curriculum
A full curriculum, starting at your child's level, with lessons connected to their interests and progress you can see.
Read a word, then match its picture
Your child sounds out short words like map and pan and matches each one to its picture. Hear it again replays the directions.
- Lesson
- Read a three-sound word
- Practice
- Match each word to its picture
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- Today
- Each subject's lesson, and whether it's done
- Grades
- Every submission graded instantly, with written feedback, so you never grade
- Records
- Attendance log and learning summary, ready to export
- Documents
- Transcripts and state-aware compliance drafts, written for you and ready to sign
2nd grade scope and sequence
Math5 units · 23 skills
Numbers to 1,2005 skills
- Read and write numbers to 1,200
- Represent a three-digit number with hundreds, tens, and ones
- Compare two three-digit numbers
- Round to the nearest ten to estimate
- Skip count by hundreds
Addition and subtraction to 1,0006 skills
- Add two-digit numbers with regrouping
- Subtract two-digit numbers with regrouping
- Add three-digit numbers
- Solve a two-step story problem
- Use an estimate to check an answer
- Explain a strategy using place value
Foundations of multiplication3 skills
- Find the total of equal groups by repeated addition
- Model an array to find a total
- Explain what makes a group even or odd
Fractions and shapes4 skills
- Partition a shape into halves, thirds, and fourths
- Name the fractional part of a partitioned shape
- Classify a two-dimensional shape by its sides and corners
- Identify the faces of a three-dimensional solid
Measurement, time, money, and data5 skills
- Measure length with a ruler in standard units
- Tell time to the nearest five minutes
- Find the value of a set of coins
- Read a bar graph to answer a question
- Solve a problem using data from a graph
Reading5 units · 21 skills
Advanced decoding5 skills
- Read a word with a vowel team
- Read a word with an r-controlled vowel
- Read a two-syllable word
- Read a word with a common prefix
- Read a word with a common suffix
Fluency and expression4 skills
- Read a passage with appropriate phrasing
- Change your voice to match a character
- Self-correct a misread word
- Adjust your pace for a harder passage
Comprehension of stories5 skills
- Describe how a character changes in a story
- Explain why a character made a choice
- Summarize a story in your own words
- Compare two characters in one story
- Identify the theme of a story
Comprehension of information4 skills
- State the main idea of an informational text
- Find a detail that supports the main idea
- Use a heading to find information
- Explain what a diagram shows
Vocabulary3 skills
- Use context to figure out a new word
- Use a prefix to understand a word
- Explain a word with more than one meaning
Writing and language5 units · 19 skills
Composing a paragraph5 skills
- Write a topic sentence
- Add two details that support the topic
- Write a closing sentence
- Keep all sentences on one topic
- Organize sentences in a sensible order
Narrative writing4 skills
- Write a story with a beginning, middle, and end
- Use time words to order events
- Add a detail about how someone felt
- Write dialogue for a character
Informational and opinion writing3 skills
- Write to explain how something works
- State an opinion and give a reason
- Use a fact to support what you wrote
Revising and editing4 skills
- Reread your writing and add a detail
- Replace a word with a better one
- Edit for capital letters and punctuation
- Check that each sentence is complete
Inquiry and presenting3 skills
- Choose a question to research
- Find a fact from a book or a website
- Present what you found to others
Explore: science9 units · 41 skills
Doing science4 skills
- Plan a simple test to answer a question
- Measure with a ruler and record the number
- Make a bar graph from what you counted
- Tell what your test showed
Matter and change5 skills
- Classify matter as solid, liquid, or gas
- Predict what happens to water when it is frozen
- Predict what happens to water when it is heated
- Show that a material can change and change back
- Sort materials by whether they dissolve in water
Forces and energy4 skills
- Tell how a push changes how fast something moves
- Compare how objects move on different surfaces
- Order the steps sound takes to reach your ear
- Sort objects by whether a magnet pulls them
Earth and sky3 skills
- Find three places water is found on Earth
- Tell what happens every day and every night
- Put the four seasons in the order they repeat
Life cycles and habitats5 skills
- Sequence the life cycle of a butterfly
- Compare two animals that live in the same place
- Tell how a plant needs animals
- Match an animal's needs to what its habitat gives it
- Predict what happens if a habitat changes
The solar system5 skills
- Put the eight planets in order from the Sun
- Draw the orbit a planet takes around the Sun
- Tell what gravity does
- Tap a moon in a picture of the solar system
- Tell why living things can live on Earth
How Earth changes5 skills
- Tell what a volcano is
- Show what an earthquake does to the ground
- Tell how moving water wears rock away
- Put the steps of a canyon forming in order
- Draw the layers you find in soil
The human body5 skills
- Tell what your skeleton does
- Show a muscle working in your own arm
- Tell what your lungs do
- Put the path food takes in order
- Tell what your brain does
Electricity and magnets5 skills
- Find three things in your home that run on electricity
- Tell what a battery does
- Sort things a magnet sticks to from things it does not
- Show what a switch does
- Tell one rule for staying safe around electricity
Explore: history5 units · 23 skills
Communities through time4 skills
- Tell how a community changes as it grows
- Compare your community long ago and today
- Tell why people moved to a new place
- Sequence events in a community's history
People who made a difference5 skills
- Tell what Susan B. Anthony won for women
- Match Thomas Edison to what he invented
- Tell what Cesar Chavez changed for farm workers
- Put Ruby Bridges' first school day in order
- Tell how one person changed many lives
National symbols and days6 skills
- Tell who gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States
- Choose what the bald eagle stands for
- Tell why we have Presidents Day
- Match Veterans Day to the people it honors
- Count the presidents carved into Mount Rushmore
- Tell what the Washington Monument honors
Using evidence3 skills
- Compare two accounts of the same event
- Find three things a map from the past shows
- Tell why one story may leave something out
How the country began5 skills
- Tell what the Declaration of Independence said
- Choose who the colonists were fighting
- Tell what the Constitution does
- Hold a class vote and count the votes
- Find your state on a map of the fifty states
FAQ
- What happens when my child is stuck in a lesson?
- Help is one tap away. Your child presses the microphone, tells the Always-On Mentor what is confusing, whether it is a regrouping step or a word in the passage, and hears it answer out loud. Your child still does the answering.
- How much time does school take each day?
- There is no fixed daily length. Each subject runs as a short spoken lesson, with a play break whenever your child needs one and an adult nearby, and our Parent Dashboard adds up the day.
- What does 2nd grade reading fluency mean?
- Reading smoothly enough to still understand what was read. Our 2nd grade reading lessons use passages about what your child likes and then ask what the passage said, so you see understanding, not only accuracy.
- How do I know 2nd grade is going well?
- The Parent Dashboard shows each lesson and skill as your child completes it. Every answer is checked the moment your child gives it, so you can see what they understand and which skills need more practice without grading anything yourself.
Build 2nd grade around your child
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