Page Count: 240

EAN: 9781596731622

Common Core Top Pick for Language 

• Conventions of Standard English
• Knowledge of Language
• Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

Language Fundamentals, Grade 2 will give your second-graders the grade-appropriate practice they need for a broad spectrum of language skills -- grammar, sentences, mechanics, and more. You'll love the test-format review pages and the sentence-editing exercises where students apply the skills to writing. Super companion for Daily Language Review,Grade 2.

Skills practiced include the following (age-appropriate terminology is used on student pages):

• Grammar Skills: common, proper, & possessive nouns; comparative and superlative adjectives; subject and object pronouns; subject-verb agreement
• Sentence Skills: declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences; combining sentence fragments to form sentences; compound sentences
• Mechanics Skills: capitalization, abbreviations, commas and quotation marks in dialogue, end marks
• Usage: compound subjects, double negatives, indefinite articles, frequently confused words
• Vocabulary: synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes, frequently misspelled words
• Sentence Editing: After practicing a skill, use the corresponding pages in this section for application to student writing. Students edit and correct sentences with common errors.