The material covers vocabulary the children have had orally as well as new areas such as classroom objects and buildings in a town. There is no formal, regular homework although worksheets are corrected and corrections gone over in class. Greater emphasis is now placed on pronunciation. The instructor reviews repeatedly a limited number of sounds in French phonetics so the children will read them as French rather than as English is pronounced. Learnables progresses to picture stories.
Additional reading includes poetry, fables, fairy tales, biographies, autobiographies, and plays.
Both oral and silent reading are encouraged. An important activity of Grade Two is the Literature Club, which brings diversity of literature. Vocabulary and spelling rise from readings and are given to students by dictation. Wordly Wise is introduced in Grade Two. Spelling and vocabulary are the basis for the study of usage of words and phonics.