LANGUAGE ARTS GRADE TWO THEME 2-NATURE WALK Categorize and Classify Compare and Contrast Telling Sentences and Questions High Frequency Words: beautiful, even, quiet, straight, year, busy, important, later, touch, young, across, brother, great, stand Content Vocabulary: Words from Kindergarten-Grade 1 Plus: Suffix Prefix Vowel pair Monitor Summarize Inference Friendly letter Plural Paragraph Describe/description Predict Infer Question (strategy) Fact/opinion Narrative Organization Verb Singular/possessive Biography/autobiography Punctuation Comprehension Commands Grammar Monitor/Clarify Reading Adding Words to Make Complete Sentences Fact and Opinion Words with Consonant Clusters Writing and Oral Language Exclamations Spelling NATURE WALK Theme 2 Words that end with –ed, -ing Words with Double Consonants Antonyms Writing an Answer to a Question More Vowel-Consonant –e Spellings Vocabulary Word Work Double Consonants VCCE Pattern Compound Words Multiple-Meaning Words Consonant Clusters (r, l, s); Two Sounds for c Long Vowels CVCe: a, u, e High-Frequency Words Two Sounds for g