Second Grade, Grammar, Set Six

Parts of Speech

• We used an old reader and underlined the verbs, pronouns, nouns, proper nouns, plural nouns, and adjectives in one story. The story had four pages, so we did one page each day.

Sentence Structure

• We divided sentences between the subject and the predicate.
• We added subjects to predicates.
• We added predicates to subjects.

Usage

• We learned that 'I' gets used in the subject of a sentence and 'me' is used in the predicate.
• We completed sentences to avoid using double negatives.

Listening and Speaking Skills

• Giving an oral book report from an outline

Writing Skills

• To prepare for writing a descriptive paragraph (she chose to write about chocolate cake), we completed a Word Web and a Senses Chart.
• We practiced combining sentences that had common subjects or common predicates.
• I had K. pick two words from her word web and two from her senses chart that were plain, everyday words. We used the thesaurus to find more interesting words to use. For instance, soft was exchanged for spongy.
• She spent two days writing sentences from the things on her charts. I asked her to write five sentences each day.
• The next day we looked for sentences that had the same subject or predicate and she combined them into one sentence.
• She decided on the order her sentences should be in the paragraph, and wrote the paragraph in her best writing.