Grade 2 Curriculum (Ages 7–8)
Grade Two (2nd Edition) combines multisensory phonics with an integrated phonological awareness strand. Across 34 core units and 8 consolidation units, students build phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and language comprehension — with the Science of Reading at its core.
Curriculum Design
How is the Grade Two (2nd Edition) program structured and delivered?
Whole Group Teacher's Guide
34 Core Units and 8 Consolidation Units with easy-to-follow lesson structures following a 5 Day Unit Plan.
Small Group Teacher's Guide
Aligned with the Whole Group lessons, detailed plans provide differentiated instruction with targeted and cumulative practice.
Assessment & Progress Monitoring
Core and Supplementary Assessments help teachers monitor progress and make decisions about pacing, reteaching, and small group differentiation.
Tricks & Strategies
All the Tricks, Strategies and Games for Whole Group, Small Group, or extra practice — organized by skill for easy selection.
All Green on EdReports: Letterland's K–2 Foundational Skills Curriculum is rated “Meets Expectations” (97% overall), confirming strong instruction and practical support for teachers.
“Children who received the explicit instruction with Letterland learned almost twice as many letter sounds.” — Roberts, 2021
Skills & Learning Outcomes
What will students learn and practise in Letterland Grade Two (2nd Edition)?
Phonemic Awareness
Review Unit A consolidates earlier skills, with ongoing phonemic awareness development through contextual practice in Live Reading and Live Spelling.
Phonics
A spiraling, cumulative sequence reviews K–1 concepts while applying decoding and spelling to multisyllabic words, the final Syllable Type (Consonant-le), and new affixes and spelling rules — building greater student independence.
Blending & Reading
Students master all six Syllable Types in single and multisyllabic words with high-utility prefixes and suffixes, shifting focus to text-level fluency with decodable Unit Stories.
Segmenting & Spelling
Key spelling rules practised through Live Spelling, Sound/Elkonin Boxes, Word Sorts and Spelling Sorts — integrated with grammar, capitalization and punctuation.
High Frequency & Tricky Words
A Tricky Word Procedure helps students identify which parts of a word need to be memorized and which parts are decodable.
Word Analysis & Morphology
Sophisticated word analysis strategies: identifying base words and affixes, all syllable types in the base word, and any variant spellings or pronunciations.
Fluency, Vocabulary & Comprehension
Automatic word recognition through engaging routines, fluent phrasing with decodable sentences, 80+ decodable stories, and comprehension through story maps, re-enactment, and discussion.
Teacher Support
Look Inside
Download the free Sample Lesson Pack: an introduction to the program, sample lessons, the complete scope and sequence, a full materials overview, and the Five Day Unit Plan.
Teach Grade 2 with Letterland
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