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Revision of grade 2

Second year of elementary school

A school year is all about learning. As a parent, you want to review your child’s 2nd year of elementary school. He’s already in the last year of his first cycle. This page will give you access to the essential knowledge for grade 2. What’s more, it gives you privileged access to fabulous resources to help your child through the end of the school year. In short, this page is a one-stop guide to revising the second year of elementary school. It’s all based on the Quebec Education Program, available on the Ministry of Education and Higher Education of Quebec website.

Common spelling and word meanings

Here’s what you need to review with your learner:

Spelling marks such as the cedilla, accents, umlauts, hyphens and apostrophes

Here’s the fabulous site “leflepourlescurieux” which offers exercises and explains each of the signs.

Naming and recognizing the letters of the alphabet in order and distinguishing between consonants and vowels.
Introduce children to sounds
Know the rules for capitalization and elision.

Here are two videos that explain these two concepts to children:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rFxEMrL1W8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU6HPUvxcwQ

Word relationships: word families, lexical fields and synonyms

Grammar and agreement in the second year

Your child should be able to identify and understand the agreement system of: proper noun, noun, determiner, adjective, pronoun and verb.
Child understands the noun phrase

Here are some songs children love about these concepts:

The noun phrase

Adjectives

The determiner

Verb agreement

Common nouns

Syntax and punctuation

The child can observe sentence structure and knows the signs that delimit the sentence. They notice positive and negative sentences.

Here’s a wacky, easy-to-play educational game:

LA BATAILLE DES MOTS – Jeu pédagogique

Conjugation for second graders

Your child can memorize the verb forms of the following verbs: to be, to love, to have, to go, to say and to do.

Text organization and coherence

Grade 2 students must :

Observe and know what a text is

Video to give your child ideas for creating his character: https://enclasse.telequebec.tv/contenu/créer-son-personnage/1805

Producing a text
Understand the organization of a fiction story

Here’s a reading from a book.

Vocabulary in 2nd grade

In the second year of elementary school, children need to master words related to the following themes: colors, numbers, orientation, the calendar, body parts, fruits, vegetables, back-to-school, Halloween, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, pets.

Grade 2 mathematics

By the end of the first cycle, second-graders should have mastered the following concepts.

Arithmetic

Number sense

The Alloprof website will help you understand this concept more clearly.

Fractions using concrete materials

Here are some easy-to-access objects to use to practice fractions: Smarties [or other sweets that will make your child smile], buttons, cards, pencils, and so on. In short, anything your child can handle.