Unit 2 Overview
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Lesson 1: “Mattland” |
Reading Skills: Making Inferences, Cause and Effect, Character and Setting Grammar Skill: Complete & Incomplete Sentences |
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Spelling Words Phonics Skill: Long a, Long i
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Vocabulary Words
culvert: drains for water under roads and sidewalks jagged: having sharp points that stick out pasture: a piece of land on which animals graze peaks: the pointed tops of mountains prickly: having small, sharp points or thorns |
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Lesson 2: “A River of Ice” |
Reading Skills: Main Idea and Details, Summarizing, Author’s Purpose Grammar Skill: Kinds of Sentences and End Marks |
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Spelling Words Phonics Skill: Long o, Long u
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Vocabulary Words
crevasse: a deep crack or crevice fjords: a deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs glacier: a river of ice formed that does not melt over: during the time of; throughout press: to push down on |
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Lesson 3: “What Makes the Earth Shake” |
Reading Skills: Compare and Contrast, Sequence, Visualizing Grammar Skill: Capitalization- Proper Nouns |
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Spelling Words Phonics Skill: Words with gn, wr, kn and Inflectional Endings –er, -est
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Vocabulary Words
aloft: far above the ground; high up restless: moving; not able to rest settled: came to rest, or made calm shivers: shakes or trembles spied: caught sight of; saw
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2nd Grade Reading & Language Arts: Unit 2
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Lesson 4: “In My Own Backyard” |
Reading Skills: Cause and Effect, Main Idea and Details, Author’s Purpose Grammar Skill: Adjectives |
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Spelling Words Phonics Skill: Long Vowel Review
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Vocabulary Words
absorb: to soak up boundaries: lines that form an edge collide: to crash into each other energy: power used in action and work structures: buildings; things that are built
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2nd Grade Reading & Language Arts: Unit 2
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Lesson 5: “Volcano Rising” |
Reading Skills: Making Inferences, Sequence, Clarifying Grammar Skill: Singular and Plural Nouns |
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Spelling Words Phonics Skill: Long e, Homophones
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Vocabulary Words
blurry: unclear; hard to see brook: small stream grazed: fed on growing grass plowed: cut through or turned over soil settlers: pioneers who come to live in a new land
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Unit 4 Overview
Lesson 1
Spelling: stone boat flown know notebook blow stroke hello oatmeal show
Vocabulary:
advance: to move forward
exhale: to breathe out
nutritious: healthy food
observe: to watch closely
transfer: to move something from one place to another
Lesson 2
Spelling: pew hue few cell sell hair hare cute human rescue
Vocabulary:
blend: to fit in, or not be seen
drowsy: sleepy or tired
scent: a smell
stump: part of a tree’s trunk after the tree has been cut
wily: full of clever tricks
Lesson 3
Spelling: tow humid disagree soap unplanned fuel cone unlock distrust pure
Vocabulary:
ancient: very old; having to do with times long ago
effective: accomplishing a goal
flush: to chase from hiding
wax: the yellow substance made by bees
wilderness: a natural place where few people live
Lesson 4
Spelling: hoop tooth mood nonstop rewrite bloom food nonfat repaid pool
Vocabulary:
antenna: long “feelers” on the head of an insect
design: to make for a purpose
limbs: large branches of a tree
products: things that are made or created
vacant: empty
Lesson 5
Spelling: clue blew tube misread preheat student grew precut mislead June
Vocabulary:
branch: part of a tree that grows out from the trunk
ever: always; all the time
ground: soil; land
middle: the center
root: the part of the plant that grows underground