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Grade 2 English Language Arts Week 9 | Student Textbook

Grade 2 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

WEEK 9 • STUDENT TEXTBOOK • DAYS 41–45

Read each lesson with a parent or teacher and study the worked example. Then answer the questions for that day in the Week 9 Practice Workbook.

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Day 41: ABC Order to the Third Letter

To put words in ABC order, look at the first letter. If the first letters are the same, look at the second letter.

If the first two letters are the same, look at the third letter. For can, cap and cat, the third letters are n, p and t, so the order is can, cap, cat.

Worked example: Put in ABC order: bet, bed, beg.

  1. The first two letters are all b and e.
  2. Look at the third letters: t, d, g.
  3. In the alphabet, d comes first, then g, then t.

Worked answer: bed, beg, bet

Day 42: Using a Dictionary

A dictionary lists words in ABC order. It tells how to spell a word and what it means. Many entries also give a sentence using the word.

Two guide words at the top of each page show the first and last words on that page. A word is on the page only if it comes between the guide words in ABC order.

Worked example: The guide words are pan and pet. Is pen on this page?

  1. pan comes before pen: a comes before e.
  2. pen comes before pet: n comes before t.
  3. pen is between the guide words.

Worked answer: Yes, pen is on this page.

Day 43: Possessives

A possessive noun shows that something belongs to someone. Add an apostrophe and s to one person or thing: the dog’s bone, Dad’s hat.

Do not use an apostrophe to make a word plural. The cats are asleep means more than one cat. The cat’s tail means the tail belongs to one cat.

Worked example: Write a possessive for: the hat that belongs to Dad.

  1. Dad is the owner.
  2. Add an apostrophe and s: Dad’s.
  3. Put the owner first: Dad’s hat.

Worked answer: Dad’s hat

Day 44: Two Versions of a Fable

A fable is a short story that teaches a lesson. The lesson is the central message. Many fables have animals that talk.

The same fable can be told in different versions. Compare them: What is the same? What is different? Does the central message stay the same?

Worked example: In a fable, a fox brags about being fast and then loses a race because he stops to nap. What is a central message?

  1. Look at what happened to the fox.
  2. He bragged and stopped trying, so he lost.

Worked answer: Do not brag; keep working until the job is done.

Day 45: Independent Check: ABC Order, Possessives and Fables

Today you will answer on your own.

Use what you learned this week: ABC order to the third letter, possessives, and finding the central message.

Worked example: Put in ABC order: dog, dot, don.

  1. The first two letters are d and o.
  2. Third letters: g, t, n. In ABC order: g, n, t.

Worked answer: dog, don, dot

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