Second Grade Language Arts Success By Sylvan Learning - Excerpt

Reading Skill Builders Contents All about Words

Sounds 1 Blend Two Consonants

2

13 Compound Words

50

2 Blend Three Consonants

8

14 Contractions

54

3 End with a Blend

10

15 Beat It!

56

4 Consonant Combos

14

16 Prefix Power

60

5 Hard or Soft?

18

17 Suffix City

64

6 Shh! Silent Consonants

22

Reading Comprehension

7 Final “E”—Finally!

24

18 What’s It About?

68

8 Get a Long, Li’l Vowel

26

19 Support Crew

72

9 Because “R” Says So!

36

20 Step by Step

76

10 Going for a Glide

42

21 Make a Prediction

80

11 Oo, Goo, Good

46

22 What Do You See?

84

12 “Aw”-some!

48

23 Classify This!

88

24 As a Matter of Fact

92

25 Book Basics

96

Review

100

Answers

103

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Spelling Games & Activities Contents 1 Spell Short Vowels

108

16 The New, True Long “U”

158

2 Spell Final E Long Vowels

110

17 You Old Soft “C”!

162

3 Beginning Consonant Combos 112

18 Gee Whiz!

164

4 Ending Consonant Combos 116

19 Spell Special Words

166

5 Spell Clothing

20 The Edge of “J”

168

6 Beginning Consonant Blends 122

21 Very “V”

170

7 Ending Consonant Blends

126

22 Silent as a Lamb

172

8 Spell Food

130

23 Commonly Misspelled Words 1 74

9 Vowels with “R”

132

24 “-Ed” Added

178

10 More Vowels with “R”

136

25 The “-Ing” Thing

182

11 What’s the Weather?

140

26 “S” Is More

186

12 The Long “A” Way

142

27 Odd Men Out

190

13 Free with Long “E”

146

28 “-Er” and “-Est”

192

14 Try Long “I”

150

Review

198

15 The Long “O” Show

154

Answers

201

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Vocabulary Puzzles Contents 1 Look It Up

206

11 Animals

266

2 Same and Opposite

212

12 Bugs

272

3 Compound Words

218

13 What’s That Sound?

278

4 Parts of the Body

224

14 Nature

284

5 Get Moving!

230

15 In the City

290

6 People

236

16 Whole Wide World

294

7 People Actions

242

Review

300

8 Family

248

i Index

304

9 At Home

254

Answers

307

10 Let’s Eat!

260

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2nd Grade Reading Skill Builders

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Blend Two Consonants Sort It Out What do you call a blend of two consonants? A consonant blend, of course! Each letter makes its own sound but also blends with its buddy’s sound, as in words like fly, plate, and train. SORT the words. PUT the words into the lists. WRITE them on the blanks. flip clock

break block

cloud bring

black flower

br

cl

gr

bl

grape brave

clam ground

blue floppy

green

fl

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Blend Two Consonants Herd That Word

1

Yee-haw! Cowgirl Kris has to round up words with the right consonant blends. Help her find them! LOOK at the blend next to each fence. READ the words inside the fence. CIRCLE the word that starts with the correct blend.

1. bl



plane

2. cr





blaze

bring

crab

grin

clip

treat

float

frown

please

glow

blue

3. fr

4. pl



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Blend Two Consonants Blender Blunder Uh-oh! Somebody spilled words into the blender. They got chopped up. Can you put them back together? LOOK at the consonant blends in the blender. MATCH each blend with the right ending. FILL IN the blanks with the correct blends.

br

dr

fl

tr

cl

bl

1.

ouse

2.

oud

3.

ave

4.

ive

5.

oor

6.

iangle

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2nd Grade Spelling Games & Activities

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Spell Short Vowels Puzzle Pairs FILL IN the two different missing vowels in the word pairs to finish the riddles.

1. This

beetle was not small.

He was a b 2. When 3. I

g b

g.

I left my cap on the stove, I had a h

did not sleep well last night. I was on a b

4. To

t h d b

t. d.

get pecans out of the tree,

I used a n 5. The

t n

rabbit went h

t. p h

p all

the way up the hill.

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Look It Up ABC-123 Words in a dictionary go in alphabetical order. That means words that start with “A” go before words that start with “B.” READ the words in the word box. Then WRITE them in alphabetical order. machine balloon

octopus trouble

1.

jelly angry

whisper learn

angry

2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

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Spell Short Vowels Criss Cross

1

READ the clues. FILL IN the boxes with the right word for each clue.

Across 1. This says “meow.” 3. You clean the floor with this. 6. My cat or my dog is my . 8. A hole in the ground 10. “You are it!” in the game of 11. You sleep here.

Down 2. The highest spot 4. A young dog 5. You a ball with a bat. 7. Wash up in the bath . 9. One after nine.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

10

9

11

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Spell Final E Long Vowels Puzzle Pairs FILL IN the missing vowels in the word pairs to finish the sentences. Listen for how the final “-e” changes the vowel sound.

1. When

I h 2. My

it’s my turn, p

I can h

p.

sister broke my toy. It m

3. Pete

d

me m

is my dog. If you want, you can p

4. Maya

went to the salon and got a c

t

d.

t P

t

c

t.

.

5. The shark was a star. He had a f

n

f

n.

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2nd Grade Vocabulary Puzzles

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Look It Up Word List READ the words and their meanings.

ad•jec•tive—AJ-ihk-tihv noun a word that describes something, like pretty or blue

e v i t c D e fi Ad j e

nition e D e s c r i b Dictio M e a n in g

nary

Noun Verb

def•i•ni•tion—dehf-uh-NIHSH-uhn noun the meaning of a word de•scribe—dih-SKRIB verb to make a picture with words, like “a pretty girl in a blue dress” dic•tion•ar•y—DIHK-shuh-nehr-ee noun a book filled with definitions of words mean•ing—MEE-nihng noun the idea of a word, what it means noun—nown noun a word that stands for a person, place, or thing verb—verb noun a word that stands for an action, like run

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Look It Up Match the Meaning

1

WRITE the words next to their definitions. LOOK at the word box for help. adjective noun

1.

describe

definition describe

dictionary verb

meaning

to make a word picture

2.

the idea of a word

3.

an action word

4.

a word for a person, place, or thing

5.

a word that describes something

6.

a book filled with definitions

7.

the meaning of a word

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Copyright © 2009 by Sylvan Learning, Inc. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. www.tutoring.sylvanlearning.com Created by Smarterville Productions LLC Producer: TJ Trochlil McGreevy Producer & Editorial Direction: The Linguistic Edge Writers: Christina Wilsdon (Reading Skill Builders), Michael Artin (Spelling Games & Activities), Margaret Crocker (Vocabulary Puzzles) Cover and Interior Illustrations: Duendes del Sur, Delfin Barral, and Shawn Finley Layout and Art Direction: SunDried Penguin Art Manager: Adina Ficano First Edition ISBN: 978-0-375-43031-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request. This book is available at special discounts for bulk purchases for sales promotions or premiums. For more information, write to Special Markets/Premium Sales, 1745 Broadway, MD 6-2, New York, New York 10019 or e-mail [email protected]. PRINTED IN CHINA 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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