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Grade 2 English Language Arts Week 12 | Teacher Guide

Grade 2 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

WEEK 12 • TEACHER GUIDE AND ANSWER KEY • DAYS 56–60

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 60, read aloud if needed but give no hints.

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Day 56: Long Words and Summaries

Standard: Grade 2 ELA Standard 10, 2.LF.10.a; Grade 2 ELA Standard 24, 2.LF.24.b

Practice record: Story: The Picnic Basket, printed on the Week 12 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: Split muffin into syllables. Worked answer: muf-fin

  1. Read: pumpkin, contest, tablet.
  2. sun-set
  3. 2 (blan-ket).
  4. Example: Hannah took a picnic basket to the park, but the wind blew her napkins away. She and her brother chased them, found them all, and enjoyed their picnic. Accept any summary that names Hannah, the blown napkins and how they were found.

Teaching note: Have the child draw a line between syllables in the dictation words before checking spelling. A summary should not retell every sentence.

Day 57: Interjections

Standard: Grade 2 ELA Standard 43, 2.LF.43.c

Practice record: Story: The Science Fair, printed on the Week 12 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: Add punctuation: Yikes that dog is big Worked answer: Yikes! That dog is big.

  1. Read: hey, yes, well.
  2. Hooray! We won the game. (Also accept Hooray! We won the game!)
  3. Oh
  4. Oops shows a strong feeling of surprise, so it gets an exclamation mark. Oh shows a mild feeling, so it gets a comma. Accept any answer comparing a strong and a mild feeling.

Teaching note: Have the child read the story aloud with feeling. The punctuation tells the reader how to say each interjection.

Day 58: Expanding Sentences with and, but, so and because

Standard: Grade 2 ELA Standard 43, 2.LF.43.d

Worked example: Join with but: The dog is small. It is loud. Worked answer: The dog is small, but it is loud.

  1. Read: since, until, also.
  2. I like apples and pears. (Also accept I like apples, and I like pears.)
  3. Answers vary. Example: It started to rain, so we opened our umbrellas. Accept any ending that tells a result of the rain.
  4. Because tells the reason we stayed inside: the rain. But makes it sound as if staying inside and the rain do not go together, which is confusing. Accept any answer that says because gives a reason and but shows a difference.

Teaching note: Write the four conjunctions on cards. Read a short sentence pair and let the child choose the card that fits best.

Day 59: Opinion Writing

Standard: Grade 2 ELA Standard 42, 2.LF.42

Worked example: Is this an opinion or a fact? Dogs are the best pets. Worked answer: An opinion.

  1. Read: agree, prefer, kind.
  2. F (it can be checked).
  3. Answers vary. Example: because a good book takes you on an adventure without going outside. Accept any reason that begins with because and supports the opinion.
  4. Answers vary. The child should name one reason from the paragraph and tell why it would convince a reader. Accept any answer that matches the child’s own paragraph.

Teaching note: The Practice Workbook gives a labeled writing area: question, opinion, two reasons, closing sentence and a revision line. The fillable PDF needs one large multiline field for each part. Use the observation checklist below.

Hands-on task observation checklist (Write your own opinion paragraph). 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.

  • ☐ The first sentence states a clear opinion.
  • ☐ At least two reasons support the opinion.
  • ☐ At least one reason uses because.
  • ☐ A joining word connects the reasons.
  • ☐ The closing sentence restates the opinion.

Day 60: Independent Check: Long Words, Interjections and Joining Words

Standard: Grade 2 ELA Standard 10, 2.LF.10.a; Grade 2 ELA Standard 43, 2.LF.43.c; Grade 2 ELA Standard 43, 2.LF.43.d; Grade 2 ELA Standard 24, 2.LF.24.b

Practice record: Story: Lost Kitten, printed on the Week 12 Practice Workbook.

Worked example: Join with so: The sun was hot. We sat in the shade. Worked answer: The sun was hot, so we sat in the shade.

  1. Read: rocket, wow, hurry.
  2. Oops! I dropped my cup.
  3. We went inside because it was cold.
  4. Example: Ella found a kitten stuck under the porch. She used a dish of milk to get it to come out and kept it. Accept any summary with Ella, the stuck kitten and the milk.

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

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