This Language Arts - Reading Course is aligned with the Pennsylvania State Academic Standards in Reading and Language Arts for Second Grade. It offers a balanced literacy component with reading and writing instruction for all second graders. Students will continue to develop literacy skills and strategies, using various genres of literature, to summarize, draw conclusions, make inferences, identify main idea and supporting details, compare and contrast, and identify cause and effect relationships and sequence stories. Each unit of study will include lessons that allow students to develop and enhance phonological awareness, writing traits, various parts of speech, content vocabulary, and technology skills.