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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 21
This week, students will learn about the vowel teams oo, ue, ew, and ui that make the long oo sound. You can get the weekly phonics...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 20
This week, students will learn about the oi and oy diphthongs. You can get the weekly phonics routine at Teachers Pay Teachers. One of...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 19
This week, students will learn that oa, oe, and ow are all vowel teams that can make the long o sound. You can get the weekly phonics...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 18
This week, students will review phonics patterns they have learned over the past 17 weeks. As a result, we will not follow the usual...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 17
This week, students will learn that we can make the long i sound using the vowel teams IE and IGH. Students may point out that IGH only...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 16
This week is a review week for phonics. Students will review the following spelling patterns: ar, er, ir, ou, ow, ee, ea, ai, and ay....
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 2
This week, second graders will be learning about using -ck to make the /k/ sound after a short vowel and doubling the letters f, l, s,...
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Second Grade Phonics Program: Week 15
This week, second graders will be learning how to decode (read) and encode (spell) r-controlled syllables with the spelling patterns ar,...
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The Prefix UN-: A FREE Morphology Lesson
Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. We use the...
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The Suffix -ED: A FREE Morphology Lesson
Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. We use the...
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The Suffix -EST: A FREE Morphology Lesson
Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. We use the...
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The Suffix -ER: A FREE Morphology Lesson
Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. We use the...
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The Suffix -ING: A FREE Morphology Lesson
Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. We use the...
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How to Make Plural Nouns: A FREE Morphology Lesson
Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. We use...
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What are Base Words? A FREE Morphology Lesson
Morphology is a powerful tool for teaching older students both decoding longer words and understanding new vocabulary words. A base word...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Recognizing the Subject and Predicate in Complete Sentences
What are the subject and predicate of a sentence? Subject and predicate are two vocabulary words we can use to talk about sentences....
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Subordinating Conjunctions in Complete Sentences
Subordinating conjunctions are words that connect dependent clauses and independent clauses in a sentence. A dependent clause is a part...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Transition Words in Complete Sentences
What are transition words? Transition words help us keep our writing organized. They can put ideas and events in time order or order of...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Coordinating Conjunctions in Complete Sentences
What are Coordinating Conjunctions? Coordinating conjunctions are words that connect words, phrases, or clauses of equal grammatical...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Adverbs in Complete Sentences
What are Adverbs? Adverbs add information to verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to tell about how, when, where, or to what degree an...
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