Discover! ELA Decodable Readers - Grade 2 Set

Discover! ELA is designed to encourage and develop independent and critical thinking while also ensuring mastery of foundational skills. As a full English Language Arts option, it is framed within wholesome content that incorporates exploration, direct instruction, skill-building, and lesson review. To meet the needs of auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learners, each worktext includes activities, instruction, and extensions. Discover! ELA curriculum covers all essential English Language Arts components for each grade, including spelling and handwriting. Students will learn and practice printing in the younger grades, and cursive handwriting in the upper grades (4th and above).

Each grade set includes a Student Semester A Worktext, Semester B Worktext, a full Instructor’s Guide, and the Assessment Booklet. Currently, these are only available as a set and not sold individually. Decodable readers for grades 1 and 2 are sold separately and contain short stories written with specific letter-sound patterns.

Students are set up for success with the lesson goals and objectives in the consumable Student Worktexts A & B. Learning is also facilitated by identifying lessons students may need to review, relevant academic vocabulary, and the provision of optional extension activities. Each course is designed to cover approximately 150 days of instruction. There are approximately 72–75 lessons, with each lesson taking roughly 2–3 days to complete. The curriculum suggests using Day 1 to cover the Explore and Read pages, where students will be given a lesson overview and instructions to read the text, write responses, and practice what they learned using graphic organizers, matching, drawing experiments, and hands-on activities. Day 2 covers the Skill Builder and Show What You Know sections, where students will have the opportunity to review and complete assessments aligned with the lesson’s objectives. Extension activities are included throughout each lesson and provide opportunities to create, make observations, and connect to real-world situations. There are seven chapters, and each chapter ends with review and assessment. Grade 7 has 10 units and Grade 8 has 11 units. 

Assessments are found in the Instructor’s Guide as well as the separate Assessment Booklet. Chapter assessments at all grade levels cover 5–10 lessons. In grades 1–2, students are asked to complete a project or a task to assess their understanding, with an alternative assessment that includes true/false, multiple choice, and short-answer questions. Assessments in grades 3–8 provide a more traditional evaluation of mastery with true/false, multiple choice, and short answer questions, with an alternative assessment that asks students to complete a project or task to assess their understanding of material.  Answers to the Assessments and Grading Rubrics are found in the Instructor’s Guide.

The Instructor’s Guides take the guesswork out of lesson planning. They are designed to complement the worktext with suggestions to facilitate, support, and extend students’ learning. There are approximately 72–75 lessons in each instructor’s guide. Each lesson guide lays out the lesson objective, provides answers to the student worktext, and suggests ways to support your student with activities. Learning style options are offered to adapt lessons to auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learners. Assessments in the Instructor’s Guide are reproducible for family use. Weekly spelling lists are also provided in the back for grades 1–6.