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Grade 2 English Language Arts Week 11 | Teacher Guide

Grade 2 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

WEEK 11 • TEACHER GUIDE AND ANSWER KEY • DAYS 51–55

Read each lesson aloud with the child and model the worked example before practice. Do not show this key during practice. Accept oral, drawn or written answers where the child cannot yet write the whole answer. On Day 55, read aloud if needed but give no hints.

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Day 51: Vowel Teams Review: ai, ay, ee, ea, oa and ow

Standard: Grade 2 ELA Standard 38, 2.LF.38.g

Practice record: Poem: Rain Day, printed on the Week 11 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: Add a vowel team to make a word for a thing that runs on a track: tr__n. Worked answer: train

  1. Read: paint, sheep, toast.
  2. Any two of gray, bay, stays, day.
  3. The boat floats on the lake.
  4. ee in green and ea in leaps. Examples: tree, meet; eat, team. Accept one correct new word for each team.

Teaching note: For dictation, say each word, use it in a sentence, and say it again. Do not spell or stretch the word for the child.

Day 52: Vowel Teams That Glide: oi, oy, ou, ow, au and aw

Standard: Grade 2 ELA Standard 38, 2.LF.38.g

Worked example: Write the word for a thing you play with: t__ (it rhymes with joy). Worked answer: toy

  1. Read: boil, south, crawl.
  2. sound
  3. paw
  4. Try the word with the /ow/ sound and with the long o sound. Choose the one that makes a real word that fits the sentence. Accept any answer about trying both sounds or using the sentence.

Teaching note: Have the child sort word cards into oi/oy, ou/ow and au/aw piles, then read each pile aloud.

Day 53: Nouns and Verbs with -s and -es

Standard: Grade 2 ELA Standard 45, 2.LF.45.b

Worked example: Write the plural of bench. Worked answer: benches

  1. Read: dresses, mixes, lunches.
  2. foxes
  3. washes
  4. Bus ends in s, so you add -es. The -es adds a syllable you can hear: bus-es. Adding only -s would make buss, which does not show the extra sound. Accept any answer that uses the s ending rule.

Teaching note: Have the child clap the syllables in box and boxes. Hearing the extra syllable helps the child choose -es.

Day 54: Research and Write an Informative Paragraph

Standard: Grade 2 ELA Standard 46, 2.LF.46.a; Grade 2 ELA Standard 46, 2.LF.46.b; Grade 2 ELA Standard 46, 2.LF.46.c; Grade 2 ELA Standard 41, 2.LF.41; Grade 2 ELA Standard 44, 2.LF.44

Practice record: Model paragraph: Honeybees, printed on the Week 11 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: Which is a research question: Honeybees are fun, or How do honeybees make honey? Worked answer: How do honeybees make honey?

  1. Read: nest, wings, fact.
  2. Honeybees are busy insects that work together.
  3. Honey.
  4. Telling the source shows the facts are true and lets a reader check them or learn more. Accept any answer about checking or trusting the facts.

Teaching note: The hands-on writing area has labeled parts. Help the child choose a source and read it aloud, but let the child write the questions and the paragraph. Use the observation checklist below.

Hands-on task observation checklist (Research and write about an animal). Check each item you observe. Four or five items shows the child met the task goal; two or three means repeat the task with support.

  • ☐ Child wrote two questions about the animal.
  • ☐ Child named a source for the facts.
  • ☐ The paragraph begins with a topic sentence.
  • ☐ The paragraph gives at least two facts that answer the questions.
  • ☐ The paragraph ends with a closing sentence.

Day 55: Independent Check: Vowel Teams, -es Endings and Paragraphs

Standard: Grade 2 ELA Standard 38, 2.LF.38.g; Grade 2 ELA Standard 45, 2.LF.45.b; Grade 2 ELA Standard 44, 2.LF.44

Practice record: Paragraph: Sea Turtles, printed on the Week 11 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: Write the plural of dish. Worked answer: dishes

  1. Read: chain, joy, peaches.
  2. brushes
  3. soap
  4. Sea turtles are reptiles that live in the ocean. It tells what the whole paragraph is about, and the other sentences give facts about sea turtles. Accept the first sentence with any reason about the main idea.

Teaching note: Independent check: read aloud if needed, but give no hints.

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