Strengthen vocabulary skills and raise test scores Vocabulary Fundamentals, Grade 2 provides scaffolded practice on the essential vocabulary skills your students need for academic success. The 42 skill units in grade 2 cover: - compound words - synonyms & antonyms - homophones - homographs - prefixes & suffixes

The authors provide tools, tips, and examples for teaching vocabulary in this complementary companion to Bringing words to life.

A comprehensive resource for grammar, mechanics, usage, and vocabulary practice.

Strengthen vocabulary skills and raise test scores Vocabulary Fundamentals, Grade 5 provides scaffolded practice on the essential vocabulary skills your students need for academic success. The 42 skill units in grade 5 cover: - synonyms & antonyms - homophones - prefixes & suffixes - word roots - idioms

A comprehensive resource for grammar, mechanics, usage, and vocabulary practice.

Vocabulary Fundamentals, Grade 6 provides scaffolded practice on the essential vocabulary skills your students need for academic success. The 42 skill units in grade 6 cover: - synonyms & antonyms - homophones - prefixes & suffixes - word roots - idioms

Provide students with frequent, focused skills practice with this Reproducible Teacher's Edition. The reproducible format and additional teacher resources provide everything needed to help students master and retain basic skills. In Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice, Grade 6+, students will learn 18 spelling words per week (540 total). Three sentences for dictation are provided for each list.

Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 33 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts and incorporate a variety of reading comprehension activities.

This comprehensive teaching resource helps second grade students master the conventions of standard English and boosts their vocabulary acquisition. Easy-to-scaffold lessons are clearly organized by language skills and standards to help teachers target instruction. Language Fundamentals has 207 pages of skill-based activities, including 21 review pages with multiple choice, constructed response, and open-ended questions to assess students' understanding and application of the focus skill. Second grade skill practice covers: Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Sentences, Capitalization, Abbreviations, Punctuation, Usage, Vocabulary, and Spelling. Included are: Rules and examples for each language skill followed by targeted application activities and unit reviews. Vocabulary and word study strategies and practice for challenging skills such as shades of meaning and real-life connections between words and their use. Common Core Language Standards cited on activity pages for easy reference. Review activities that ask students to apply skills in context and demonstrate higher-level thinking. An easy-to-read answer key.