Language Arts (Grade 2-3)
Reading
Title: Black Belt in Understanding: Understanding Abbreviations
Description: Demonstrates several common abbreviations, provides questions about how they are formed.
Source: The Mailbox: Grade 2-3. April/May 2010. p.7&10.
Title: Seem and Heard: Identifying Long-Vowel Sounds
Description: Students will create a booklet describing each long vowel sounds, with examples of letter combinations that make those sounds.
Source: The Mailbox: Grade 2-3. April/May 2010. p.7&9.
Title: Long-Vowel Patterns
Description: Activities to help students identify long vowel sounds a, e, i, and o. Demonstrates the different ways these sounds are formed in words.
Source: Teacher's Helper: Grade 2-3. Feb./Mar. 2010. p.33-39.
Title: Initial Consonant Blends
Description: Introduces several initial consonant blends, including sp, spl, spr; sc, scr, st, str; sl, sp, spl; sc, sc, squ.
Source: Teacher's Helper: Grade 2-3. Dec./Jan. 2009-10. p.3-9.
Writing
Title: Reproducible Writing Prompts
Description: Writing prompts that can be handed out and completed. Contains month specific topics for April and May.
Source: The Mailbox: Grade 2-3. April/May 2010. p.21.
Title: Writing a Narrative Booklet
Description: Provides step-by-step instructions to help students learn the parts of narrative writing.
Source: Teacher's Helper: Grade 2-3. Feb./Mar. 2010. p.3-10.
Grammar
Title: Race Back to Camp! Plural Nouns
Description: A game where students take turns spelling the plural form of a noun, and race to the finish. Students check each other's work from the answer key.
Source: The Mailbox: Grade 2-3. April/May 2010. p.20&60.
Title: Using Commas
Description: Activities related to the use of commas in dates, series of words, and to combine sentences.
Source: Teacher's Helper: Grade 2-3. Dec./Jan. 2009-10. p.31-37.
Title: Prefixes
Description: Activities to introduce the prefixes dis-, pre-, re-, pre-, and mis-, non-, sub-.
Source: Teacher's Helper: Grade 2-3. Dec./Jan. 2009-10. p.25-29.
Research
Title: Chocolate Chip Challenge: Reading for Information
Description: Students identify questions to which they cannot find answers in their readings. They then look for the answers in other sources.
Source: The Mailbox: Grade 2-3. April/May 2010. p.7.
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