Grammar Garden · Dedicated Language & Writing Curriculum

Grammar Garden Grade 2

Subjects and predicates, verb discipline, and precise words

444coursebook pages, four quarters

102Preceptor Guide pages

137assessment & resource pages

Grammar Garden · Grade 2 · Language & writing curriculum

Key facts

Grade: Grade 2 — one of six grade levels in the K–5 sequence.
Format: Print-at-home PDFs. The Preceptor Guide is read page by page in the browser.
What is included: Four quarterly Student Coursebooks (444 pages), a yearlong 102-page Preceptor Guide, a 137-page Assessment & Resource Book, and a 6-page Student Reference Booklet.
The week: Five days: Learn & Notice · Practice Together · Build Sentences · Edit & Revise · Write & Show — combinable to four.
Practice online: The Grammar Garden Game is the browser practice companion — practice between lessons, never the lesson.
Price: Included in All Access — $39/month for every child in the household, cancel anytime.
Open to everyone: 8 zoomable coursebook pages, the complete 102-page Preceptor Guide, and the full 36-week scope below.

Real pages from inside the coursebooks

See the language work your child will actually do

These pages were selected from across all four quarters to show instruction, sentence building, editing, and composition — not covers, contents pages, or empty writing lines.

Inside Grade 2

Grammar that grows into writing

Sentences get anatomy — subjects and predicates underlined and built — verbs learn to stay in one time, prepositional phrases arrive with their commas, and writing turns toward exact nouns, vivid verbs, and first full paragraphs. Skills deliberately return after they are taught — applied again in sentence work, editing, and composition — so grammar becomes usable written language rather than a list of terms.

Subjects and predicates, underlined and built
Verb tenses that stay in one time
Prepositional phrases and their commas
Exact words and first full paragraphs

The published plan

Grade 2 scope and sequence, all 36 weeks

Generated from the curriculum’s own skill registry — the same source the books are built from — so this table cannot drift from what the coursebooks teach. Studio, benchmark, and capstone weeks are the program’s built-in review and assessment rhythm.

Week	Strand	Focus
1	Diagnostic	Orientation, baseline writing sample, and placement diagnostic
2	Sentence foundations	Complete sentence, subject, and predicate
3	Grammar and usage	Common, proper, and collective nouns
4	Grammar and usage	Regular and irregular plurals
5	Grammar and usage	Action verbs, be verbs, and agreement
6	Grammar and usage	Pronouns and clear antecedents
7	Grammar and usage	Possessive nouns and apostrophes
8	Cumulative Studio	Cumulative editing
9	Benchmark	Quarter benchmark
10	Grammar and usage	Regular and irregular past forms
11	Grammar and usage	Consistent verb time
12	Grammar and usage	Subject-verb agreement
13	Grammar and usage	Self pronouns: reflexive and intensive
14	Grammar and usage	Adjectives
15	Grammar and usage	Adverbs
16	Grammar and usage	Comparative and superlative forms
17	Cumulative Studio	Cumulative studio
18	Benchmark	Quarter benchmark
19	Sentence foundations	Sentence purposes
20	Grammar and usage	Prepositions and introductory phrases
21	Grammar and usage	Coordinating conjunctions
22	Sentence foundations	Simple and compound sentences
23	Sentence development	Expand, rearrange, and combine
24	Mechanics	Commas in lists, greetings, closings
25	Mechanics	Apostrophes in contractions and possessives
26	Mechanics	Proper-noun and title capitalization
27	Application	Application task
28	Composition	Topic and closing sentences
29	Composition	Logical order and transitions
30	Sentence development	Elaboration with precise words
31	Composition	Narrative paragraph
32	Composition	Informative paragraph
33	Composition	Opinion paragraph
34	Editing and revision	Revise meaning and organization
35	Editing and revision	Edit and publish
36	Capstone	Portfolio capstone

The Grade 2 package

All seven books, shown exactly

Four quarterly Student Coursebooks, the yearlong Preceptor Guide, the Assessment & Resource Book, and the Student Reference Booklet — every book in the grade package, with its real page count. The book files’ own cover pages carry the series’ cover title, Strong Sentences: Grammar, Writing & Composition, under the Faith Readers imprint.

Quarter 1 · Weeks 1–9

Student Coursebook

85 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Quarter 2 · Weeks 10–18

Student Coursebook

100 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Quarter 3 · Weeks 19–27

Student Coursebook

128 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Quarter 4 · Weeks 28–36

Student Coursebook

131 pages of daily lessons, practice, editing, and writing.

Preceptor Guide · yearlong

Complete guide, visible before enrollment

Read all 102 pages online — the weekly rhythm, scripting, and answers in context. The teacher PDF is not publicly mounted and has no download action.

Assessment & Resource Book

Diagnostics, benchmarks, reteach cards

137 pages: the entry diagnostic, quarterly benchmarks with scoring, reteach cards for every skill, and anchor charts.

Student Reference Booklet

The rules in one durable place

A 6-page booklet of the grade’s rules and models — printed once, kept beside the child all year.

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All Access includes every Grade 2 book on this page — the four coursebooks, the Assessment & Resource Book, and the Student Reference Booklet — along with the wider curriculum and practice library.

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