This comprehensive teaching resource helps second grade students master the conventions of standard English and boosts their vocabulary acquisition. Easy-to-scaffold lessons are clearly organized by language skills and standards to help teachers target instruction.

Language Fundamentals has 207 pages of skill-based activities, including 21 review pages with multiple choice, constructed response, and open-ended questions to assess students´ understanding and application of the focus skill.

Format: The teacher´s edition includes reproducible student pages, teacher support pages, and an answer key.

Second grade skill practice covers:
• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Adjectives
• Verbs
• Adverbs
• Prepositions
• Sentences
• Capitalization
• Abbreviations
• Punctuation
• Usage
• Vocabulary
• Spelling

This new edition features:
• Rules and examples for each language skill followed by targeted application activities and unit reviews
• Vocabulary and word study strategies and practice for challenging skills such as shades of meaning and real-life connections between words and their use
• Common Core Language Standards cited on activity pages for easy reference
• Review activities that ask students to apply skills in context and demonstrate higher-level thinking
• An easy-to-read answer key

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.