All Lessons
Distinguish Between Complete and Incomplete Sentences
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on distinguishing between complete and incomplete sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify verbs and subjects within a sentence and determine if the sentence in complete or incomplete. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Use Verbs
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying verbs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify action words in sentences. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Use Syllabication Rules
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on the use of syllabication rules. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use syllabication rules to divide words into syllables. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify Irregular Plural Nouns
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on identifying irregular plural nouns. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students change nouns to irregular plural nouns based on the spelling pattern. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify Regular Plural Nouns
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on identifying regular plural nouns. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students change singluar nouns to plural nouns based on the spelling rules. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify Antonyms
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on identifying antonyms. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use context clues and differences to identify antonyms. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Determine the Meaning of Synonyms
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on identifying synonyms. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use context clues and similarities to identify synonyms. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Determine the Meaning of Prefixes
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on determining the meaning of prefixes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Recognize the Meaning of Suffixes
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on recognizing suffixes and how they change the meaning of words. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Capitalize Proper Nouns
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on capitalizing proper nouns. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify specific names of people, places, and things and the letter that should be capitalized. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Recognize Abbreviations
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on recognizing abbreviations. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify words that can be abbreviated and practice writing the abbreviations. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Capitalize Holidays and Special Events
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on capitalizing holidays and special events. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify holidays and special events in sentences and mark the letters to be capitalized. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Punctuate Dates, Cities, and States
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on punctuating dates, cities, and states correctly. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students insert commas to correctly punctuate dates, cities, and states. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify Types of Simple Sentences
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying types of simple sentences. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students label subject and verbs in sentences and identify the type of simple sentence (SV, SSV, SVV). In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Determine the Meaning of Compound Words
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This Common Core language lesson covers the meaning of compound words. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will identify the two words that make up a compound word and use those meanings to determine the meaning. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
Identify Subjects and Predicates
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying subjects and predicates. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify and label the subject and predicate in a sentence and cross out any sentences that are not complete. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify and Use Adjectives
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing conventions lesson focuses on identifying and using adjectives. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify and use words that describe a noun. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.