Blossom and Root Curriculum: Scope and Sequence!
Second Grade
Language Arts, Reading, Creativity, and Geography
(Recommended for ages 7 - 10, depending on child’s reading level. Child should be
confidently reading most consonant - vowel - consonant words like “cat” and “man.”
They should be comfortable with beginning and ending blends like “gl-” and “-st.” They
should be able to decode basic silent e words like “gate.” They should recognize some
frequently-occurring words: the, they, them, and, he, she, am, etc. If they do not yet meet
these guidelines, it may be best to begin with Blossom and Root First Grade’s language
arts program.)
•Tall tales, trickster tales, and stories of adventure !
•Practicing printing with copywork selections !
•Vowel digraphs: ai, ay, ea, ee, oa, ow, oy, oi, aw, au, ou !
•Hard and soft C and G!
•Compound words!
•Syllables: open vs. closed, syllable division!
•Common suffixes: -ing, -est, -ful, -ness, -ed!
•More uses for silent e!
•Words that end in “ey” and “ie”!
•Three-letter blends!
•The four sounds of “u”!
•R-controlled vowels !
•The sound of /ah/!
•Contractions!
•Reading short books!
•Reading poetry!
•Narrating back simple story lines orally, through play, and / or with drawings!
•Exploring literature weekly through a variety of creative, hands-on activities and optional
journaling prompts!
•Optional projects that integrate geography. Topics covered include locating the setting of
various tall tales and trickster tales on a map, continents, modes of transportation, fictional
cartography (map-making), absolute and relative location, human characteristics / region,
physical characteristics / region, movement of goods / ideas / people, interactions between
humans and the environment, researching the geography of your child’s home, parts of a
river, parts of a mountain, parts of a cave, and parts of a forest.!
•*NEW* Optional creative extension projects that allow children to dive deeper into creative
exploration
The Creative Extensions Guide is a new addition to our language arts curriculum, beginning in
second grade and includes seven project prompts / tutorials. These projects are completely
optional, but are a wonderful way for your child to explore new forms of creative expression,
inspired by the books we read in the curriculum. Projects include: mixed media art with
photographs, wet-felted play mats for storytelling, shadowbox scenes, creating and using
shadow puppets, two-dimensional needle-felting, window transparencies, and block printing.
