This fun, colorful 352-page book can be used as a textbook or a comprehensive workbook with your textbook to teach reading, writing, grammar, and punctuation skills and concepts that students are expected to know in second grade. They also develop critical thinking, vocabulary, and several other skills and concepts normally taught in third grade.
The engaging lessons include easy-to-follow explanations, examples, and charts for visual learners—and there is no lesson preparation! Each lesson is followed by a variety of fun, colorful, mind-building activities that use different genres.
Level C (Grade 2) Content
• Capitalization • Vowels • Critical Thinking • Word Families • Cause and Effect • Usage • Compare/Contrast • Am, Is, and Are • Deductive Reasoning • Categorizing • Facts and Inferences • Comparing • Opinion • Homographs • Prediction • Homophones • Adjectives • I, Me, and Myself • Adverbs • Ordering • Antonyms • Sequencing • Articles • Writing Directions • Contractions • Writing • Friendly Letters • Characters • Nouns • Comparing • Pronouns • Conflict • Sentences • Context Clues • Subject and Predicate • Editing • Subject-Verb Agreement • Fantasy • Synonyms • Fiction and Nonfiction • Verbs • Folktales • Grammar • Following Directions • Punctuation • Idioms • Apostrophes • Number Word Expressions • Commas • Parts of a Book • Exclamation Marks • Poems • Periods • Real and Make Believe • Question Marks • Reference Materials • Quotation Marks • Rhymes • Spelling • Riddles • Alphabetizing • Setting • Compound Words • Table of Contents • Consonants • Topic and Main Idea • High Frequency Words • Using a Dictionary • Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots • Using a Glossary • Singular/Plural
