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This Week in Second Grade
Week 27
Compound Words
Compound Words
"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" by Judith and Ronald Barrett is a great text to use as you practice identifying compound words. Use examples from the book to determine the meanings of unfamiliar compound words with your child.
"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" by Judith and Ronald Barrett is a great text to use as you practice identifying compound words. Use examples from the book to determine the meanings of unfamiliar compound words with your students.
Choose the Compound Word #1
Worksheet
Choose the Compound Word #1
Learners will hone their grammar and vocabulary skills as they identify the compound word in each of 10 problems.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Get a Grip on Grammar: Compound Words #7
Worksheet
Get a Grip on Grammar: Compound Words #7
Is your second grader having grammar troubles? Clear things up--at least when it comes to compound words--with this word puzzle!
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Get a Grip on Grammar: Compound Words #8
Worksheet
Get a Grip on Grammar: Compound Words #8
Want to give your second grader practice identifying compound words? This colorful, fill-in-the-blank worksheet's sure to do the trick.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Money Math
Money Math
Bring math practice into your real life by letting your child help figure out how many bills and coins you need to pay for purchases at the store.
Provide a number bond template to help students who are struggling with part-whole relationships. This will support them in setting up equations from word problems.
Making Change at the Toy Store
Interactive Worksheet
Making Change at the Toy Store
On this second grade math worksheet, kids solve money word problems about making change on a fun trip to the toy store.
2nd grade
Math
Interactive Worksheet
Make Change: Pet Store
Worksheet
Make Change: Pet Store
Help your smart shopper learn to add and subtract change with this money math worksheet! She'll add up prices and subtract to make change for each purchase.
2nd grade
Math
Worksheet
Money Math Word Problems
Worksheet
Money Math Word Problems
Children will practice everyday math in this word problems worksheet.
2nd grade
Math
Worksheet
Figurative Language and Comprehension
Figurative Language and Comprehension
Authors use figurative language to show when something is significant or has special meaning. When reading with your child, draw their attention to examples of figurative language.
Lay the foundation for close reading skills by alerting students as to how authors use figurative language to communicate significance and meaning. Why might an author use specific language in texts, and what is its impact on the reader?
Metaphors in Context
Worksheet
Metaphors in Context
Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Making Metaphors
Worksheet
Making Metaphors
Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. With this worksheet, students will write a metaphor for each pair of given words.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
The Twisted Ankle
Worksheet
The Twisted Ankle
Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Descriptive Language
Descriptive Language
Help your child prepare to learn about descriptive language by reviewing the five senses.
As you begin a lesson about descriptive language, review the five senses with students. Help students brainstorm a word bank of sensory language. Then, provide students with a five senses graphic organizer as a planning strategy for descriptive writing.
Writing With Your Senses: Brainstorm Descriptive Words
Worksheet
Writing With Your Senses: Brainstorm Descriptive Words
Young writers will describe a location using their sense of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch in this grammar and mechanics worksheet.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Sensory Words
Worksheet
Sensory Words
Sort sensory words into categories for each sense.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Adding Adjectives: Sense of Sight
Worksheet
Adding Adjectives: Sense of Sight
In this playful grammar worksheet, children are invited to think about how they would describe something that they can see.
2nd grade
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
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