Instructional Framework: Grade 2

Resources and Instructional Model

Each unit in Nelson Literacy has a clearly-articulated instructional focus.

Oral Language

Reading

Science
Animals

Active Listening/
Interactive Strategies

Comprehension
Strategies

Make connections while

you listen

Social Studies
Celebrate Traditions

Literature
Biographies

Appropriate Language

Making Inferences

Visualize while you listen

to support understanding

Listen for descriptive

words to create vivid
images

Make inferences while you

listen

Make Connections

Visualize

Predict

Make connections to self

and text

Visualize to clarify
understanding

Make predictions using

the titles and headings

Science
Liquids and Solids

Social Studies
Communities

Literature
Long Ago and
Far Away

Science
Movement

Science
Air and Water

Active Listening/
Interactive Strategies

Demonstrating
Understanding

Vocal Skills and

Strategies

Demonstrating
Understanding

Presentation Strategies/
Clarity and Coherence

Ask questions while you

listen to clarify
understanding

Listen for important ideas

Use tone and volume when

you speak to communicate
a message

Use labelled diagrams

when you speak

Present an oral report in a

clear, coherent manner
using an organizational
pattern

Making Inferences

Ask Questions

Find Important Ideas

Retell

Ask questions to clarify

understanding

Identify important ideas

using titles and headings

Retell a story

Monitor Your
Comprehension

Evaluate

Use stated and implied

information to make
simple inferences

Use self-monitoring to
check understanding

Read-Aloud, Shared Reading,

and Modelling Selections
Shared

Literature
What is a Story?

Modular Format9 units available individually

Contains all the material needed to deliver each individual unit

45 Shared Reading and Modelling Selections provided in both transparency

and digital form

Unit Resource contains:

1 Read-Aloud picture book
5 Shared Reading and Modelling Selections provided in
both transparency and digital form, including lesson plans
1 Teacher's Resource
4 Guided Reading selections, 6 copies of each, including
lesson plans
Audio CD with selections from the Student Book

Complete lesson plans including suggested prompts for discussion

2b

Express personal thoughts

and opinions about what
has been read

Text Form

Text Form

Text Features

Text Form

Text Features

Text Form

Text Form

Text Features

Text Form

Narrative

Information Report

Titles and headings

Recount

Photos and captions

Description

Narrative: Long Ago and

Far Away Tales

Labelled diagrams

Explanation

2a

Consonant digraphs
Double-letter patterns
Suffixes
Adjectives
Action verbs
Spelling strategies

Consonant blends
Word families
Compound words
Proper and common
nouns
Spelling strategies

Consonant digraphs
Blends
Contractions
Joining words
Synonyms and antonyms
Spelling strategies

Digraphs
Syllabication
High-frequency words
Homophones
Joining words
Spelling strategies

Blends
Vowel patterns
Word families
Suffixes
Adjectives
Spelling strategies

Base words
Consonant digraphs
Vowel patterns
Syllabication
High-frequency words
Verbs
Spelling strategies

Double consonant patterns

Word families
Contractions
Pronouns
Prepositions
Spelling strategies

Trait

Trait

Trait

Trait

Trait

Trait

Trait

Ideas: Choose a big idea

Ideas: Add details to your

writing

Organization: Stay on
topic

Organization: Put things

in order

Voice: Make voice strong

Word choice: Use

descriptive adjectives

Word choice: Use action

words

Fluency: make your

writing flow

Publishing: Publish your

writing

Generate, gather, and

organize ideas

Process

Process

Process

Process

Process

Process

Process

Generate, gather, and

organize ideas

Draft and revise

Draft and revise

Draft and revise

Draft and revise

Draft and revise

Draft and revise

Publish/share

Purpose and Audience

Media Forms

Interpreting Messages
Messages from invitations

Conventions and
Techniques

Responding to and
Evaluating Texts

Media Forms

Characteristics of trading
cards

Conventions and
Techniques

Audiences Responses

Identify purpose and

audience for book covers

Identify audience for flyer

Elements of science reports

Conventions of maps

Express opinions about

movie posters

Conventions of DVD
covers

Point of View
Point of view in ads

Long Ago and

Far Away

Communities

2a

2b

2b

2a

2a

Liquids and
Solids

Air and
Water

Nelson Literacy 2b
ISBN-13: 978-0-17-608937-5
ISBN-10: 0-17-608937-3

2c

Nelson Literacy 2a

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Nelson Literacy 2c
ISBN-13: 978-0-17-608940-5
ISBN-10: 0-17-608940-3

ISBN-13: 978-0-17-608934-4
ISBN-10: 0-17-608934-9

2c

What Is
a Story?

2c

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Teacher's Resource

Movement

OR
Literature

When does a turnip grow

bigger than a house?

9 Teacher's Resource booklets (1 for each unit), in one convenient package

Each Teacher's Resource includes:

Social Studies

Literature

Social Studies

Literature

Science

Science

Literature

Social Studies

Literature

Science

Social Studies

Literature

Science

ISBN-13: 978-0-17-611559-3
ISBN-10: 0-17-611559-5

Comprehensive lesson plans

Manageable tools and strategies for assessment

Practical strategies for differentiating instruction

Blackline Masters for assessment and word study

Teacher's Resource with lesson plans for supporting reading, writing,

and oral language

Media Package
Audio recordings of selections from the student books
Media clips linked to each unit

Social Studies

Literature

Science

Science

Literature

Science

Social Studies

Science

Social Studies

Literature

Science

ISBN-13: 978-0-17-611561-6
ISBN-10: 0-17-611561-7

Literature

Science

Social Studies

Science

Social Studies

Literature

Science

Literature

Science

ISBN-13: 978-0-17-611563-0
ISBN-10: 0-17-611563-3

9 Student Books

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1 unit in each book

How do skateboards move?

Why do we need air

and water?

What makes toys jump?

What can the wind do?

Why do rollercoasters
move so fast?

Who played a trick on

the tiger?

How can you save water?

Find out in Movement!

Find out in Long Ago

and Far Away!

Literature

Science

ISBN-13: 978-0-17-611562-3
ISBN-10: 0-17-611562-5

Where does the Dragon

King live?

Find out in Communities!

Other Nelson Literacy 2 Books

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How did the princess turn

to gold?

Where do you find homes

on stilts?

Student Books

Find out in
Liquids and Solids!

Science

Other Nelson Literacy 2 Books

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What is a school day like

in Japan?

Find out in Air and Water!

Science

Other Nelson Literacy 2 Books

Science

Other Nelson Literacy 2 Books

Other Nelson Literacy 2 Books

Literature

Science

Social Studies

Literature

Literature

Science

Social Studies

Literature

Literature

Science

Social Studies

Literature

Literature

Science

Social Studies

Literature

Science

Literature

Science

Science

Science

Social Studies

Science

Science

Science

Social Studies

Literature

Science

Science

Social Studies

Literature

Science

ISBN-13: 978-0-17-611564-7
ISBN-10: 0-17-611564-1

4 Guided Reading selections per unit, with a range of guided reading

levels F to N

Science

How did some Canadian

communities get started?

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36 selections, 6 copies of each

Literature

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Other Nelson Literacy 2 Books

Guided and Independent Reading Kit

Science

ISBN-13: 978-0-17-611560-9
ISBN-10: 0-17-611560-9

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Social Studies

Literature

Find out in Biographies!

Literature

Other Nelson Literacy 2 Books

Science

What is an icy giant?

How do you make
oobleck?

How does Philip Currie

hunt for dinosaurs?

Find out in Celebrate

Traditions!

Social Studies

Other Nelson Literacy 2 Books

Why does lava turn

into rock?

Why did Robert Munsch

start telling stories?

What tradition is
celebrated with kazoos?

How do polar bears hunt

for food?
Find the answers in
Animals!

Science

When did Julie Payette

blast off into space?

How do we celebrate
Canadas birthday?

Which bird does not fly?

What magic words stop

a baby from crying?
Find out in What Is
a Story?

Science

When are traditional

jingle dresses worn?

What is the biggest bug

in the world?

How do you find a

runaway hamster?

Other Nelson Literacy 2 Books

Available in 3 formats: print, CD, online

Trait

Process

Nelson

Biographies

2b

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Trait
Process

Media/Viewing/
Representing

High-frequency words
Word families
Nouns and pronouns
Capital letters
Spelling strategies

Celebrate
Traditions

Includes cross-curricular units that link to science and social studies

Guided
Writing

Syllabication
Double consonants
Past-tense verbs
Antonyms
Spelling strategies

2c

Animals

3 Student Books

Nelson

Nelson

Student Books

Independent

Word Work and

Word Study

9 unit resources (1 for each unit) available individually

9 Read-Aloud picture books

3 units in each book

Text Forms and
Features

Unit Resource

ISBN-13: 978-0-17-611565-4
ISBN-10: 0-17-611565-X

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ISBN-13: 978-0-17-611566-1
ISBN-10: 0-17-611566-8

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ISBN-13: 978-0-17-611567-8
ISBN-10: 0-17-611567-6

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Includes cross-curricular units that link to science and

social studies