LANGUAGE ARTS

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LANGUAGE ARTS

• Introduction to verb tense, plurals, and the
  dictionary

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2nd Grade Language Arts

• Spelling Resources
• Plural Endings
• Verb Tenses

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WRITING/SPELLING (TEKS2.16)

• Use resources to find correct spellings,
  synonyms, and replacement words.
• Write with more proficient spelling of
  inflectional endings, including plurals and verb
  tenses.

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ACTION VERBS

• Definition a word that tells what someone or
  something does.
• SWING?

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VERBS THAT TELL ABOUT THE PAST

• NOW I open the door.
• PAST Yesterday, I opened the door.
• NOW She goes to the circus.
• PAST She went to the circus yesterday.

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PLURAL

• Definition When a noun names more than one
  person, place, or thing.
• HORSES

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PLURAL

• DOG
• DOGS

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PLURALS THAT CHANGE THE WORD

• MOUSE
• MICE

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• CHILD
• CHILDREN

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DICTIONARY

• Definition A book that lists words and their
  meanings.
• The words are in ABC order.
• Phonetic pronunciation
• Labels the part of speech.

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DIFFERENT TYPES
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DICTIONARY SAMPLE PAGE

• Entry words
• Definitions
• Syllable division
• Pronunciation
• Part of speech
• Example sentence

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THE END

• Credits
• Dr. Aoki, Elaine M., Dr. Virginia A. Arnold,
  Dr. James Flood, Dr. James V. Hoffman, Dr. Diane
  Lapp, Dr. Miriam Martinez, and Dr. Annemarie
  Sullivan Palincsar. Catch a Sunflake. New York
  Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Company,
  1993.
• Landau, Sidney I,.Webster Illustrated Contemporay
  Dictionary Encylopedic Edition. Chicago J.G.
  Ferguson Publishing Company, 1984.
• Strickland, Dorothy S., Roger C. Farr, Nancy
  L. Roser, Richard F. Abrahamson, Nancy R. McGee,
  Karen S. Kutip0er, and Patricia Smith. HBJ
  Language. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1990.
• Sulzby, Elizabeth, Marvin l. Klein, William
  H. Teale, and James Hoffman. McGraw-Hill English.
  New York Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing
  Company, 1991.
• Complete Wordfinder. New York Readers Digest
  Association, Inc., 1993.
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• Presentation by
• Cynthia Deasy