This 352 page book teaches the language arts concepts and skills students are expected to know in second grade. It also introduces several skills and concepts normally taught in third grade. This fun, mind building book teaches standards-based language arts and develops critical thinking skills. Language Smarts can serve as a complete curriculum for language arts or as a supplemental resource. Empower your student’s mind as you improve their vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, reading, and writing skills.Teaching and practicing language arts skills and concepts has never been easier! No lesson preparation needed! Each section introduces a specific topic, followed by appropriate practice and application activities. These engaging and colorful lessons develop critical thinking and language arts skills through a variety of activities and different genres: Common Phrases, Palindromes, Pangrams, Mnemonics, Nursery Rhymes, Poems, Folk Tales (Fairy Tales and Fables), Fiction, Non-fiction, Reality, Fantasy, Rhyme, Riddle, and Word Play.- Visual Skills: sequencing; compare/contrast; interpret and apply pictures, captions, diagrams, charts, and graphs; literal thinking; number-word sentences and expressions. - Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: blend sounds to make words; identify, segment, and combine syllables in words; recognize and produce rhyming words; identify initial, final, and medial letter sounds; classify vowel/consonant, rhyming and non-rhyming words; recognize and categorize word families. - Comprehension: predict; sequence/summarize; draw conclusions, make predictions, and identify facts and inferences; compare/contrast; follow logical reasoning; synthesize illustration/text information, and cause/effect; identify and analyze characters/conflict; context clues; ordering; problem/resolution; recall details; restate; identify and describe setting; summarize important ideas/events and supporting details; identify theme/topic, purpose, and main idea. - Fluency and Flexibility: with word meanings and associations to improve spelling, vocabulary, and reading through evaluating antonyms, synonyms, homonyms, homophones, prefixes, suffixes, and root words. - Word Relationships: classify word groups; form pairs of related items; identify and classify types of analogous relationships; select and supply words and word pairs to complete relationships. - Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling, and Capitalization Skills: through single-skill practice with guided, gradual instruction and practice, and mixed-skills practice.

Language Smarts Level C Workbook - Reading, Writing, Grammar, and Punctuation for Grade 2

Children's Books

Judy Wilson Goddard

Kathy Erickson

Education & Reference

The Critical Thinking Co.

This fun, colorful 352-page book can be used as a textbook or a comprehensive workbook with your textbook to teach reading, writing, grammar, and punctuation skills and concepts that students are expected to know in first grade. They also develop critical thinking, vocabulary, and several other skills and concepts normally taught in second grade. The engaging lessons include easy-to-follow explanations, examples, and charts for visual learners–and there is no lesson preparation! Each lesson is followed by a variety of fun, colorful, mind-building activities that use different genres.

Language Smarts Level B Workbook - Reading, Writing, Grammar, and Punctuation for Grade 1

Answer the math word problem and complete and color the pictures! Description FeaturesComplete the Picture Math develops a wide variety of math, reading, visual, and spatial reasoning skills. Children solve an engaging word problem that focuses on reading comprehension and mathematical reasoning before completing and coloring an animal picture.This is an ideal product to motivate your child to improve his or her math skills. These quick, boredom-busting activities can be used in the classroom, after school, at home, and on trips to stimulate developing minds.Reading Level: Grade 1Format: 86 pages, Paperback Publisher: The Critical Thinking CoISBN: 1-60144-169-X

Complete the Picture Math Book 1

88-page book promoting critical thinking and math skills, and also science, language arts, and art; student activities reproducible by purchaser for individual classroom or home

Complete the Picture: Math, Grade 3, Book 3

Vocabulary Smarts, Book 2 (Grades 4-5)

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Words, Language & Grammar

Critical Thinking Co.