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Grade 2 English Language Arts Week 15 | Student Textbook

Grade 2 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

WEEK 15 • STUDENT TEXTBOOK • DAYS 71–75

Read each lesson with a parent or teacher and study the worked example. Then answer the questions for that day in the Week 15 Practice Workbook.

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Day 71: Long and Short Vowel Patterns

A short vowel says its short sound, as in cat, bed, pig, hot and bug. A short vowel is usually alone between consonants, as in flat or sock.

A long vowel says its name. Common long vowel spellings are a vowel, a consonant and a silent e (cake, bike, rope), and vowel teams (rain, play, feet, seat, boat, snow, light). An open syllable can also have a long vowel, as in go and me.

Worked example: Is the a in plane long or short?

  1. Plane ends with a consonant and a silent e.
  2. The silent e makes the a say its name.

Worked answer: Long.

Day 72: Linking Words

Linking words connect ideas so a reader can follow them. First, then and finally show the order of steps. Also adds another idea.

Because tells why something happens. So tells what happens as a result. When you read, linking words help you see how one idea connects to the next.

Worked example: Which linking word tells why? We stayed inside because it was raining.

  1. Find the word that joins the two ideas.
  2. Because tells the reason we stayed inside.

Worked answer: because

Day 73: Set a Purpose and Draw Conclusions

Good readers set a purpose before they read: they decide what they want to find out. A question such as Where do these animals go? gives you a purpose.

Use what you already know, your background knowledge, to understand new ideas. Then draw a conclusion: put clues from the text together with what you know to figure out something the author does not say.

Worked example: A text says the ground was wet and the sidewalk had puddles. What can you conclude?

  1. Clue from the text: wet ground and puddles.
  2. Background knowledge: rain makes puddles.

Worked answer: It rained.

Day 74: Research in My Own Words

When you research, you find facts in sources such as books and trusted websites. Plagiarism is copying someone else’s words or ideas and saying they are your own. It is not honest.

To avoid plagiarism, write short notes, not whole sentences, while you read. Then close the book and write sentences in your own words from your notes. Always name your source so readers know where the facts came from.

Worked example: Tom copies a whole paragraph from a book and puts only his own name on it. Is that plagiarism?

  1. Tom used the author’s exact words.
  2. He presented the words as his own.

Worked answer: Yes, it is plagiarism.

Day 75: Independent Check: Vowels, Linking Words and Conclusions

Today you will answer on your own.

Use what you learned this week: long and short vowel patterns, linking words, setting a purpose and drawing conclusions.

Worked example: Which word has a short vowel: cake, cat or kite?

  1. Cake and kite end with a silent e, so their vowels are long.
  2. Cat has one vowel alone between consonants.

Worked answer: cat

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