Help your child speak, read, and write with confidence and clarity. Encourage creativity and strengthen communication skills with Spectrum® Language Arts for grade 2. This standards-based workbook is packed with engaging, open-ended writing activities and grade-appropriate practice to build a stronger understanding of essential language arts concepts.

An understanding of language arts concepts is key to strong communication skills—the foundation of success across disciplines. Spectrum Language Arts for grade 2 provides focused practice and creative activities to help your child master sentences, parts of speech, capitalization, and punctuation.

This comprehensive workbook doesn't stop with focused practice–it encourages children to explore their creative sides by challenging them with thought-provoking writing projects. Aligned to current state standards, Spectrum Language Arts for grade 2 includes an answer key and a supplemental Writer's Guide to reinforce grammar and language arts concepts. With the help of Spectrum, your child will build the language arts skills necessary for a lifetime of success.

Features:

• Answer Key

Fast track your phonemic awareness with Daphne the Dolphin and the Smart Tray!

Teach the operations of phonemic awareness. Sounds are introduced in a systematic progression, early cards involve matching sounds activities and later cards teach manipulation of sounds in words. Teach blending, isolating, segmenting and substitution of sounds. Contains 25 cards. Self correcting. For use with the Smart Tray® (sold separately).

30 weeks of instruction cover the following reading skills and strategies:

• Theme
• Evaluate Evidence
• Character and Setting
• Main Idea and Details
• Visual Information
• Author's Purpose
• Prediction
• Make Inferences
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Nonfiction Text Features
• Sequence

• Monitor Comprehension
• Make Connections
• Visualization
• Organization
• Determine Important Information
• Ask Questions

You'll love Daily Reading Comprehension because it…

• provides students with direct instruction and practice of reading skills and strategies.
• supports struggling and reluctant readers.
• integrates easily into any language program and any classroom.
• works great for test-prep.
• is correlated to current standards.

Engage your students in reading, thinking about, and responding to a variety of passages and texts with Daily Reading Comprehension!

Provide fourth grade students with 180 days of daily practice to build their knowledge of spelling rules, conventions, and patterns. Students gain regular practice with word study through these quick, diagnostic-based activities. This 4th grade spelling workbook features 15 word lists each week and worksheets thatare fun, engaging, and challenging for students. Ideal for after school, intervention, or homework, the word lists and activities are based on 10 years of classroom-tested experience. Activities include:

• Analogies
• Homophones
• Sentence types
• Sentence completions
• Prefixes, suffixes, and roots
• Synonyms and antonyms
• Inflectional endings

Digital resources include assessment analysis tools. With this easy-to-use resource, teachers can easily add daily word study to their literacy block and help students boost their spelling and word study skills in a hurry!

• Parts of Speech
• Things Good Readers Do
• Great Reasons to Read
• 10 Ways to be a Great Student
• How to Choose the Right Book