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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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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Possessive Pronouns in Complete Sentences
What are Possessive Pronouns? Possessive pronouns are pronouns that show possession. Just like possessive nouns, they show when a noun...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Possessive Nouns in Complete Sentences
What are Possessive Nouns? Possessive nouns show when someone or something owns an object. We show a possessive noun by using an...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Helping Verbs in Complete Sentences
What are Helping Verbs? Helping verbs work with action and being verbs to give more information about when or how an action is happening....
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using the Preposition “With” in Complete Sentences
What is the Preposition With? We have already learned that prepositions tell us more about when and where an action is happening in a...
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Systematic and Explicit Instruction on Using Object Pronouns in Complete Sentences
What are Object Pronouns? In the last lesson, we learned that objects are nouns that are affected by the action of a verb in a sentence....
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