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Distinguish Between Complete and Incomplete Sentences
L.2.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
L.2.1.FL.2.1.F Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy).
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.
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Use Verbs
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.
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Use Syllabication Rules
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.
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Identify Irregular Plural Nouns
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.
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Identify Regular Plural Nouns
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.
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Identify Antonyms
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.
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Determine the Meaning of Synonyms
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.
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Determine the Meaning of Prefixes
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.
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Recognize the Meaning of Suffixes
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.
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Capitalize Proper Nouns
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.
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Recognize Abbreviations
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.
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Capitalize Holidays and Special Events
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.
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Punctuate Dates, Cities, and States
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.
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Identify Types of Simple Sentences
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.
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Determine the Meaning of Compound Words
L.2.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
L.2.4.DL.2.4.D Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words (e.g., birdhouse, lighthouse, housefly; bookshelf, notebook, bookmark).
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.
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Identify Subjects and Predicates
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.
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Identify and Use Adjectives
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.