Manitoba
Skills available for Manitoba grade 2 English language arts curriculum
Objectives are in black and IXL English language arts skills are in dark green. Hold your mouse over the name of a skill to view a sample question. Click on the name of a skill to practise that skill.
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Actions
Language as Sense Making
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Access, use, build, and refine schema.
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Select from and use a variety of strategies.
- Order events in a story (2-P.1)
- Use actions and dialogue to understand characters (2-Q.1)
- Determine the themes of myths, fables and folktales (2-R.1)
- Match each effect to its cause (2-S.1)
- Match each cause to its effect (2-S.2)
- Analyze stories (2-T.1)
- Compare and contrast in informational passages (2-U.1)
- Read and understand informational passages (2-U.2)
- Put the sentences in order (2-V.1)
- Choose topic sentences for narrative paragraphs (2-W.1)
- Choose topic sentences for expository paragraphs (2-W.2)
- Use conjunctions (2-X.1)
- Use subordinating conjunctions (2-X.2)
- Identify time-order words (2-X.3)
- Use time-order words (2-X.4)
- Complete the fact and opinion sentences (2-Z.1)
- Complete the opinion passage with an example (2-Z.2)
- Complete the opinion passage with a reason (2-Z.3)
- Complete the opinion-reason-example table (2-Z.4)
- Choose the sensory details that match the picture (2-AA.1)
- Add descriptive details to sentences (2-AA.2)
- Revise the sentence using a stronger verb (2-AA.3)
- Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes (2-BB.2)
- Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re- or mis- (2-BB.3)
- Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis- (2-BB.4)
- Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less (2-BB.5)
- Prefixes and suffixes: review (2-BB.6)
- Sort words into categories (2-DD.1)
- Which word is not like the others? (2-DD.2)
- Choose the synonym (2-EE.1)
- Find synonyms in context (2-EE.2)
- Choose the antonym (2-EE.3)
- Which sentence uses an antonym? (2-EE.4)
- Find antonyms in context (2-EE.5)
- Which sentence has the same meaning? (2-EE.6)
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word (2-JJ.1)
- Order alphabetically based on the first letter (2-KK.1)
- Order alphabetically based on the first two letters (2-KK.2)
- Order alphabetically based on the first three letters (2-KK.3)
- Use guide words (2-KK.4)
- Use dictionary entries (2-KK.5)
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Be aware of and articulate the ways that one engages with text.
- Order events in a story (2-P.1)
- Use actions and dialogue to understand characters (2-Q.1)
- Determine the themes of myths, fables and folktales (2-R.1)
- Match each effect to its cause (2-S.1)
- Match each cause to its effect (2-S.2)
- Analyze stories (2-T.1)
- Compare and contrast in informational passages (2-U.1)
- Read and understand informational passages (2-U.2)
- Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes (2-BB.2)
- Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re- or mis- (2-BB.3)
- Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis- (2-BB.4)
- Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less (2-BB.5)
- Prefixes and suffixes: review (2-BB.6)
- Homophones with pictures (2-FF.1)
- Identify homophones (2-FF.2)
- Use the correct homophone (2-FF.3)
- Multiple-meaning words with pictures (2-GG.1)
- Find the words with related meanings (2-HH.1)
- Describe the difference between related words (2-HH.2)
- Order related words based on meaning (2-HH.3)
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word (2-JJ.1)
Language as System
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Recognize, apply, and adapt rules and conventions (e.g., form, genre, grammar, register, punctuation, elements of design, spelling, legibility).
- Complete the word with the correct initial consonant blend (2-C.1)
- Complete the word with the correct final consonant blend (2-C.2)
- Spell the word with a consonant blend (2-C.3)
- Complete the word with the correct digraph: ch, sh, th (2-C.4)
- Complete the word with the correct digraph: ph, qu, wh (2-C.5)
- Spell the digraph word: ch, sh, th (2-C.6)
- Spell the digraph word: ph, qu, wh (2-C.7)
- Sort by initial consonant blend or digraph (2-C.8)
- Complete the word with a three-letter consonant blend (2-C.9)
- Complete the sentence with a three-letter consonant blend word (2-C.10)
- Complete the words with silent letters (2-C.11)
- Complete the word with the correct short vowel (2-D.1)
- Spell the short a word (2-D.2)
- Spell the short e word (2-D.3)
- Spell the short i word (2-D.4)
- Spell the short o word (2-D.5)
- Spell the short u word (2-D.6)
- Sort short and long vowel words (2-E.1)
- Match the short a and long a words to pictures (2-E.2)
- Match the short e and long e words to pictures (2-E.3)
- Choose the short i or long i word that matches the picture (2-E.4)
- Choose the short o or long o word that matches the picture (2-E.5)
- Choose the short u or long u word that matches the picture (2-E.6)
- Use spelling patterns to sort long and short vowel words (2-E.7)
- Is the syllable open or closed? (2-E.8)
- Spell words with open and closed syllables (2-E.9)
- Complete the sentence with the correct -ild, -ind, -old, -olt or -ost word (2-E.10)
- Choose the silent e word that matches the picture (2-F.1)
- Complete the silent e words (2-F.2)
- Spell the silent e word (2-F.3)
- Choose the picture that matches the vowel team word (2-G.1)
- Complete the vowel team words (2-G.2)
- Complete the word with the correct vowel team (2-G.3)
- Choose the vowel team sentence that matches the picture (2-G.4)
- Choose the words with a given long vowel (2-H.1)
- Spell the long a word: silent e, ai, ay (2-H.2)
- Spell the long e word: ee, ea (2-H.3)
- Spell the long i word: silent e, ie, y (2-H.4)
- Spell the long o word: silent e, oa, ow (2-H.5)
- Spell the long u word: silent e, ue, oo, ew (2-H.6)
- Choose the r-control word that matches the picture (2-I.1)
- Complete the word with the correct r-controlled vowel: ar, er, ir, or, ur (2-I.2)
- Complete the word with the correct r-controlled vowel: er, ir, ur (2-I.3)
- Choose the r-control sentence that matches the picture (2-I.4)
- Choose the diphthong word that matches the picture (2-J.1)
- Complete the word with the correct diphthong: oi, oy, ou, ow (2-J.2)
- Choose the diphthong sentence that matches the picture (2-J.3)
- Complete words with variant vowels (2-K.1)
- Which word has a different vowel sound? (2-K.2)
- Sort soft and hard g words and soft and hard c words (2-L.1)
- Pick the soft g or soft c word that matches the picture (2-L.2)
- Choose the soft g or soft c sentence that matches the picture (2-L.3)
- Spell the soft g or soft c word (2-L.4)
- Put two syllables together to create a word: harder (2-M.2)
- Complete the two-syllable words (2-M.3)
- Complete the sentence with a two-syllable word (2-M.4)
- Complete the consonant-l-e words (2-N.1)
- Choose the correct spelling of the consonant-l-e word (2-N.2)
- Spell the consonant-l-e word (2-N.3)
- Use conjunctions (2-X.1)
- Use subordinating conjunctions (2-X.2)
- Complete the word with the ending that you hear (2-BB.1)
- Is the sentence a statement, question, command or exclamation? (2-LL.1)
- Identify the subject of a sentence (2-LL.2)
- Identify the predicate of a sentence (2-LL.3)
- Is it a complete sentence or a fragment? (2-LL.4)
- Is it a complete sentence or a run-on? (2-LL.5)
- Is it a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on? (2-LL.6)
- Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence (2-LL.7)
- Select the nouns (2-MM.1)
- Which word is a noun? (2-MM.2)
- Identify nouns (2-MM.3)
- Sort common and proper nouns (2-MM.4)
- Identify common and proper nouns (2-MM.5)
- Form regular plurals with -s and -es (2-MM.6)
- Use regular plurals with -s and -es (2-MM.7)
- Use singular and plural nouns (2-MM.8)
- Is the noun singular or plural? (2-MM.9)
- Form and use irregular plurals (2-MM.10)
- Identify plurals, singular possessives and plural possessives (2-MM.11)
- Form the singular or plural possessive (2-MM.12)
- Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns (2-MM.13)
- Identify personal pronouns (2-NN.1)
- Choose between subject and object personal pronouns (2-NN.2)
- Replace the singular noun with a personal pronoun (2-NN.3)
- Replace the plural noun with a personal pronoun (2-NN.4)
- Compound subjects and objects with "I" and "me" (2-NN.5)
- Choose the correct personal pronoun (2-NN.6)
- Identify possessive pronouns (2-NN.7)
- Use possessive pronouns (2-NN.8)
- Choose between personal and reflexive pronouns (2-NN.9)
- Use reflexive pronouns (2-NN.10)
- Use action verbs (2-OO.1)
- Identify action verbs (2-OO.2)
- Identify helping verbs (2-OO.3)
- One or more than one? (2-PP.1)
- Use the correct subject or verb (2-PP.2)
- Pronoun-verb agreement (2-PP.3)
- Which sentence is in the regular past tense? (2-QQ.1)
- Identify verbs in the regular past tense (2-QQ.2)
- Form and use the regular past tense (2-QQ.3)
- Change the sentence to future tense (2-QQ.4)
- Identify the irregular past tense I (2-QQ.5)
- Identify the irregular past tense II (2-QQ.6)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 1 (2-QQ.7)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 2 (2-QQ.8)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 3 (2-QQ.9)
- Form and use the irregular past tense: set 4 (2-QQ.10)
- Match the -ed and -ing sentences to the pictures (2-QQ.11)
- To be: use the correct present tense form (2-QQ.12)
- To be: use the correct past tense form (2-QQ.13)
- To be: use the correct form (2-QQ.14)
- To have: use the correct form (2-QQ.15)
- Use the correct article: a or an (2-RR.1)
- Identify articles (2-RR.2)
- Use sense words (2-SS.1)
- Does the adjective tell you what kind or how many? (2-SS.2)
- Identify the adjective that describes the noun (2-SS.3)
- Identify adjectives (2-SS.4)
- Identify comparative and superlative adjectives (2-SS.5)
- Does the adverb tell you how, when or where? (2-SS.6)
- Identify adverbs (2-SS.7)
- Choose between adjectives and adverbs (2-SS.8)
- Is the word an adjective or adverb? (2-SS.9)
- Select the best preposition to match the picture (2-TT.1)
- Select the best preposition to complete the sentence (2-TT.2)
- Form pronoun-verb contractions (2-UU.1)
- Form contractions with "not" (2-UU.2)
- Use pronoun-verb contractions (2-UU.3)
- Use contractions with "not" (2-UU.4)
- Use contractions in a sentence (2-UU.5)
- Commas with dates (2-VV.1)
- Capitalizing the names of people and pets (2-WW.1)
- Capitalizing days, months and holidays (2-WW.2)
- Capitalizing the names of places and geographic features (2-WW.3)
- Capitalizing titles (2-WW.4)
- Greetings and closings of letters (2-WW.5)
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Identify, analyze, and apply understandings of whole-part-whole relationships (e.g., function and relationship of parts within a whole design, cueing systems, fluency, word study).
- Choose the short i or long i word that matches the picture (2-E.4)
- Choose the short o or long o word that matches the picture (2-E.5)
- Choose the short u or long u word that matches the picture (2-E.6)
- Choose the vowel team sentence that matches the picture (2-G.4)
- Choose the r-control sentence that matches the picture (2-I.4)
- Choose the diphthong sentence that matches the picture (2-J.3)
- Choose the soft g or soft c sentence that matches the picture (2-L.3)
- Choose the sight word that you hear (2-O.1)
- Complete the sentence with the correct sight word (2-O.2)
- Spell the sight word (2-O.3)
- Complete the word with the ending that you hear (2-BB.1)
- Identify base words, prefixes and suffixes (2-BB.2)
- Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re- or mis- (2-BB.3)
- Use the prefixes pre-, re- and mis- (2-BB.4)
- Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less (2-BB.5)
- Prefixes and suffixes: review (2-BB.6)
- Sort words into categories (2-DD.1)
- Which word is not like the others? (2-DD.2)
- Homophones with pictures (2-FF.1)
- Identify homophones (2-FF.2)
- Use the correct homophone (2-FF.3)
- Multiple-meaning words with pictures (2-GG.1)
- Find the words with related meanings (2-HH.1)
- Describe the difference between related words (2-HH.2)
- Order related words based on meaning (2-HH.3)
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word (2-JJ.1)
Language as Exploration and Design
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Research and study topics and ideas.
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Interpret and integrate information and ideas from multiple texts and sources.
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Manage information and ideas.
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Invent, take risks, and reflect to create possibilities.
Language as Power and Agency
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Recognize and analyze inequities, viewpoints, and bias in texts and ideas.
- Use actions and dialogue to understand characters (2-Q.1)
- Determine the themes of myths, fables and folktales (2-R.1)
- Choose the text that matches the writer's purpose (2-Y.1)
- Complete the fact and opinion sentences (2-Z.1)
- Find the words with related meanings (2-HH.1)
- Describe the difference between related words (2-HH.2)
- Order related words based on meaning (2-HH.3)
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Investigate complex moral and ethical issues and conflicts.
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Contemplate the actions that can be taken, consider alternative viewpoints, and contribute other perspectives.
- Use actions and dialogue to understand characters (2-Q.1)
- Choose the text that matches the writer's purpose (2-Y.1)
- Complete the fact and opinion sentences (2-Z.1)
- Complete the opinion passage with an example (2-Z.2)
- Complete the opinion passage with a reason (2-Z.3)
- Complete the opinion-reason-example table (2-Z.4)