Grade(s): 2
Subject(s): English Language Arts
Year: 2015
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Janice Baines (Whitaker Elementary School) and Saudah Collins (Jackson Creek Elementary School) talk about their trip to Ghana, and lead a lesson about describing things using adjectives!
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After reading a class "simile-loaded" favorite by legendary author Margaret Wise Brown [THE QUIET NOISY BOOK], the class will share reactions to the book. The teacher will POINT OUT the literary...
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Students will learn about adverbs and use their knowledge to write about their morning routine using adverbs.
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Students will learn and study action verbs and create a "Silent Film" where the other students must notice and pick out action verbs and write sentences containing the ones they saw.
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Understanding the concept of syllable is the open sesame to sounding out almost any written word. Developing the ability allow a child to move into the world of reading. This song defines the concept...
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Learn about punctuation marks like a period, question mark, exclamation mark, parentheses, dash, bracket, colon or a semi-colon.
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This song has a Middle Eastern musical style, clearly stating the concept, "An adjective is a word that describes a noun." It then elaborates on how descriptions might include such characteristics as...
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What is a vowel? What is a consonant? Learn the difference between the two from Dr. Balkin's literacy song.
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In this program learn how to use the "period" in a sentence from Dr. Balkin's literacy song, "Get the Point."