Grade 2 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
WEEK 7 • TEACHER GUIDE AND ANSWER KEY • DAYS 31–35
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 35, read aloud if needed but give no hints.
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Day 31: Adding Suffixes: Drop e, Change y to i
Standard: Grade 2 ELA Standard 10, 2.LF.10.m; Grade 2 ELA Standard 38, 2.LF.38.n
Worked example: Add -ing to make. Write the new word. Worked answer: making
- Read: hoping, smiled, cried. Each word should be spelled exactly.
- riding
- ponies
- crying and cried. In cried, the y changes to i before -ed. In crying, the y stays because -ing already starts with i, and English words rarely have two i’s together. Accept both spellings with a reason.
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 32: Prefixes: un-, re- and pre-
Standard: Grade 2 ELA Standard 10, 2.LF.10.m; Grade 2 ELA Standard 38, 2.LF.38.n; Grade 2 ELA Standard 17, 2.LF.17.b
Worked example: Add re- to paint. Write the new word and tell what it means. Worked answer: repaint, which means to paint again.
- Read: unlock, retell, preheat.
- unhappy
- refill
- pre- means before, so a pretest is a test given before something, such as before a lesson. Accept any answer that uses the meaning before.
Teaching note: Have the child underline the prefix and the base word in each dictation word.
Day 33: Contractions
Standard: Grade 2 ELA Standard 10, 2.LF.10.o; Grade 2 ELA Standard 38, 2.LF.38.p; Grade 2 ELA Standard 43, 2.LF.43.b
Worked example: Write the contraction for is not. Worked answer: isn’t
- Read: don’t, I’m, we’ll.
- they’re
- can not (also written cannot).
- The letter i. It’s stands for it is, and the i in is was left out, so the apostrophe stands in its place. Accept i with a reason.
Teaching note: Check that the apostrophe is placed where the letters were removed, not between the two words.
Day 34: Cause and Effect
Standard: Grade 2 ELA Standard 27, 2.LF.27
Practice record: Story: Ice on the Pond, printed on the Week 7 Practice Workbook.
Worked example: Read: It rained all afternoon, so the picnic was moved inside. What is the cause? Worked answer: The cause is that it rained all afternoon.
- Read: because, froze, melted.
- The very cold night.
- They walked across the ice.
- The sun warmed the air. The words By noon the sun had warmed the air come right before the ice began to melt. Accept any answer that names the sun warming the air.
Teaching note: Draw a two-box chart labeled Cause and Effect, with an arrow between, and fill it in for each event.
Day 35: Independent Check: Word Parts, Contractions and Cause and Effect
Standard: Grade 2 ELA Standard 10, 2.LF.10.m; Grade 2 ELA Standard 10, 2.LF.10.o; Grade 2 ELA Standard 43, 2.LF.43.b; Grade 2 ELA Standard 27, 2.LF.27
Practice record: Story: The Lost Mitten, printed on the Week 7 Practice Workbook.
Worked example: Add -ed to hope. Write the new word. Worked answer: hoped
- Read: carried, unhappy, didn’t.
- she’s
- She had lost a mitten at the park.
- re- means again, so she walked back the same way again to look for the mitten. Accept any answer that means going back over the same path.
Teaching note: Independent check: read the dictation words and the story aloud if needed, but give no hints.
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