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correlated to current standards
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.
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