The ABCmouse Second Grade Reading Curriculum
Designed for Children Ages 7–8
The ABCmouse second-grade reading and writing program helps build confident, capable readers while strengthening language and writing skills. Children practice phonics and decoding with consonant blends, digraphs, vowel spellings, silent letters, and multisyllabic words while building vocabulary through prefixes, suffixes, and academic words. They also develop fluency and comprehension through fiction, poetry, folk tales, and informational texts, exploring story elements, point of view, inferences, author’s purpose, and text features. Language and writing instruction covers grammar, sentence structure, figurative language, the writing process, and different writing genres, building the skills children need to understand increasingly complex texts and express their ideas in writing.
What Your Second Grader Can Learn with the
ABCmouse Reading Curriculum
⭐ Decode increasingly complex words
using phonics and word-reading strategies.
⭐ Build vocabulary and understand
the meanings of new words.
⭐ Develop reading fluency as
they work with increasingly challenging
texts.
⭐ Read and understand different
types of texts, including fiction, nonfiction,
poetry, and folk tales.
⭐ Strengthen reading comprehension
by thinking more deeply about what they read.
⭐ Use reading strategies to understand
stories and informational texts.
⭐ Build language and grammar skills for
stronger reading and writing.
⭐ Develop writing skills and learn to
communicate ideas through different
types of writing.
⭐ And so much more!
Why Parents Choose the ABCmouse Second Grade Reading Curriculum
❤️ Structured online reading curriculum created by education experts
❤️ Comprehensive reading, writing, and language instruction in one program.
❤️ Strengthens grammar and writing skills alongside reading development.
❤️ Over 13,000 learning activities across reading and other core subjects
❤️ Ideal for homeschool preschool, home learning, and extra literacy practice
❤️ Includes educational games, books, songs, videos, puzzles, and printable activities (coming to the app soon)
❤️ Backed by research and chosen by 40+ million families
❤️ Personalized learning paths in reading and math that grow with your child
How ABCmouse Builds Second Grade Reading Skills
ABCmouse builds second-grade reading skills through a comprehensive program that strengthens phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. Reading instruction is paired with language and writing practice, giving children opportunities to build the skills they need to become more confident readers and writers.
Learn
Children are introduced to new literacy and grammar concepts through guided lessons, interactive books, educational videos, and activities.
Practice
Engaging games and stories give second graders repeated opportunities to practice reading fluency and comprehension, grammar, and vocabulary.
Apply
Children use what they’ve learned to complete age-appropriate literacy and writing activities.
Reinforce
Important concepts are revisited across books, games, videos, and other activities to strengthen understanding, build confidence, and support long-term learning.
How ABCmouse Builds Early Reading Skills
ABCmouse builds second-grade reading skills through a comprehensive program that strengthens phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. Reading instruction is paired with language and writing practice, giving children opportunities to build the skills they need to become more confident readers and writers.
Learn
Children are introduced to new literacy and grammar concepts through guided lessons, interactive books, educational videos, and activities.
Practice
Engaging games and stories give second graders repeated opportunities to practice reading fluency and comprehension, grammar, and vocabulary.
Apply
Children use what they’ve learned to complete age-appropriate literacy and writing activities.
Reinforce
Important concepts are revisited across books, games, videos, and other activities to strengthen understanding, build confidence, and support long-term learning.
Second Grade Reading Skills
ABCmouse builds second-grade literacy through key skill areas that work together to strengthen reading and writing. From phonics and vocabulary to fluency, comprehension, grammar, and writing, each skill group gives children opportunities to build on what they already know and apply new skills as they work with increasingly complex words and texts.
Phonics & Word Reading Skills
Children practice strategies for reading and spelling increasingly complex words. They about:
⭐ Multisyllabic word patterns
⭐ Three-letter blends
⭐ Silent letters
⭐ Vowel and letter-sound patterns
Phonics & Word Reading Skills Your Child Can Learn
Children learn strategies for breaking down longer words and applying familiar sound and spelling patterns when they read.
Examples include:
| ✅ Break longer words into smaller parts to make them easier to read |
| ✅ Read and spell increasingly complex words |
| ✅ Apply decoding strategies to unfamiliar words |
Vocabulary Skills
Children expand their vocabulary and explore how words are formed. They practice with the following skills:
⭐ Prefixes
⭐ Compound words
⭐ Academic vocabulary
⭐ Suffixes
⭐ Comparison words
Vocabulary Skills Your Child Can Learn
Children learn to use their knowledge of words and word parts to understand increasingly complex vocabulary.
Examples include:
| ✅ Use familiar word parts to figure out word meanings |
| ✅ Understand how adding a prefix or suffix changes a word |
| ✅ Apply growing vocabulary to better understand what they read |
Reading Fluency Skills
Children build fluency through exploring:
⭐ High-frequency sight words
⭐ Stepped readers
⭐ Increasingly complex texts
Reading Fluency Skills Your Child Can Learn
Children apply their growing decoding and word-recognition skills as they progress to more challenging reading.
Examples include:
| ✅ Recognize familiar words more readily |
| ✅ Apply word-reading skills to connected text |
| ✅ Progress to increasingly challenging reading material |
Reading Comprehension & Literature Skills
Children practice reading with a variety of texts, including the following:
⭐ Folk tales
⭐ Poetry
⭐ Text features
⭐ Fiction
⭐ Informational texts
Reading Comprehension Skills Your Child Can Learn
Children learn strategies for thinking about, interpreting, and finding information in different types of texts.
Examples include:
| ✅ Identify important story elements |
| ✅ Determine an author’s purpose and recognize point of view |
| ✅ Make inferences about what they read |
| ✅ Use features of a text to find and understand information |
Language & Grammar Skills
ABCmouse helps children grow their understanding of
⭐ Parts of speech
⭐ Subject-verb agreement
⭐ Similes and onomatopoeia
⭐ Verb tense
⭐ Sentence types and structure
⭐ Punctuation
Language & Grammar Skills Your Child Can Learn
Children explore how words, sentences, grammar, and punctuation work together to communicate meaning.
Examples include:
| ✅ Identify subjects, including compound subjects |
| ✅ Distinguish among different types of sentences |
| ✅ Recognize and work with compound and run-on sentences |
| ✅ Use conjunctions and commas to understand sentences |
Writing Skills
Children explore the following areas:
⭐ The writing process
⭐ Written expression
⭐ Writing genres
Writing Skills Your Child Can Learn
Children apply their growing language skills as they learn to organize and communicate ideas in writing.
Examples include:
| ✅ Follow a process for developing written work |
| ✅ Write for different purposes and in different genres |
| ✅ Apply grammar and sentence skills to writing |
| ✅ Communicate ideas more effectively in writing |
What’s Included with the ABCmouse Second Grade Reading Program
Your ABCmouse subscription includes a complete second grade reading curriculum designed to help children build literacy and writing skills they need for later learning. Along with the Second Grade Reading Program, your subscription also includes math, science, social studies, art, music, and health activities. With more than 13,000 learning activities, ABCmouse provides engaging opportunities for children to learn, practice, and reinforce new skills through guided lessons, books, games, songs, videos, puzzles, and printable activities. Families can use ABCmouse as part of a homeschool routine, alongside a classroom program, or for extra reading practice at home.
ABCmouse is a Comprehensive Curriculum
Your ABCmouse subscription gives your child access to our reading, math, science, art, and social studies curriculum for kids ages 2-8, including over 13,000 activities.
ABCmouse is a Comprehensive Curriculum
Your ABCmouse subscription gives your child access to our reading, math, science, art, and social studies curriculum for kids ages 2-8, including over 13,000 activities.
ABCmouse Premium
- $14.99/month or $79.99/year
- Unlimited access to 13,000+ learning activities
- Personalized Learning Paths for up to three children
- Full Reading and Math Learning Paths unlocked
- Full access to Parent Tools
- Safe and 100% ad-free
ABCmouse Basic
- Free
- Limited access to a curated selection of up to 10 learning activities per day
- Only one child profile
- Safe and 100% ad-free
Tip: Premium subscribers can add on access to the ABCmouse Assessments Center (at an additional fee), which provides a clear view of your child’s reading and math progress through short assessments that highlight strengths, growth, and areas where additional support may be helpful.
