Journeys Weekly Skills Handout

Journeys Weekly Skills

Handout

Grade 2

Unit 5 (Lessons 21-25)

Unit 5 ? Lesson 21

Penguin Chick

Spelling Words

by: Betty Tatham

Vocabulary

1. father 2. over 3. under 4. herd

Comprehension Skill Main Idea and Details

Main idea-important idea

Words

1. webbed 2. waterproof 3. steer

5. water

about the topic

4. whistle

6. verb 7. paper 8. cracker 9. offer

Details ? a fact or example that tells more about a main idea

5. otherwise 6. junior 7. slippery 8. finally

10. cover

High

11. germ 12. master 13. fern

(review) 14. ever

(review)

Grammar Skill What is an adjective?

An adjective is a word that tells how something works.

Frequency Words

1. across 2. behind 3. house 4. how

15. remember (challenge)

16. feather (challenge)

Adjectives can tell size, color, or how many.

5. move 6. nothing 7. one 8. out

9. took

Vocabulary

10. voice

Strategy

Dictionary Entry

Includes an entry word, one or more definitions of the word, and sometimes an example sentence or a picture; all dictionary entries are arranged in alphabetical order

Unit 5 ? Lesson 22

Gloria Who Might Be My Best

Friend

Spelling Words

1. meet 2. meat 3. week 4. weak 5. mane 6. main 7. tail

by: Ann Cameron

Comprehension Skill

Understanding Characters

Characters are the people and animals in a

story

Vocabulary Words

1. knot 2. copy 3. planning 4. lonely 5. heavily 6. seriously 7. answered 8. guessed

8. tale 9. be 10. bee 11. too

Traits are ways of speaking and acting

that show what someone is like

High Frequency

Words

12. two 13. sea (review) 14. see (review)

Grammar Skill Using Adjectives

1. boy 2. does 3. everyone

15. threw

An adjective is a word 4. field

(challenge) 16. through

that tells more about another word.

5. floor 6. found

(challenge)

Vocabulary Strategy

Idioms

Numbers are special adjectives that tell how

many.

7. into 8. their 9. toward 10. what's

an expression that cannot be understood from the individual meanings of the words that make it up or by its literal meaning

Ex. She was so nervous her stomach was in knots.

Unit 5 ? Lesson 23

The Goat in the Rug

by: Geraldine

Vocabulary

Spelling Words

1. helpful 2. sadly 3. hopeful 4. thankful 5. slowly 6. wishful 7. kindly

Comprehension Skill

Conclusions

A conclusion is a smart guess about something the author does not say

Words

1. yarn 2. strands 3. spinning 4. dye 5. weave 6. sharpening 7. duplicated 8. delicious

8. useful 9. safely 10. painful 11. mouthful

High Frequency

Words

12. weakly 13. jumped (review) 14. saying (review)

Grammar Skill Irregular Verbs

1. coming 2. down 3. four

15. quickly

Have, has, and had are 4. give

(challenge)

irregular verbs. Use have 5. great

16. wonderful (challenge)

and has to tell about present time. Use had to tell about something that

happened in the past.

6. idea 7. knew 8. large 9. though

Vocabulary Strategy Compound Words

10. write a longer word made up of two shorter words

Example: waterfall

Unit 5 ? Lesson 24

Half-Chicken

by: Alma Flor Ada

Spelling Words

1. unhappy 2. retell 3. untangle 4. unkind 5. repaint 6. refill

Comprehension Skill

Cause and Effect

Cause: the reason why something happens

7. unlike 8. remake 9. unpack 10. reread 11. unlock

Effect: something that happens as a result of something

else

12. replay

Grammar Skill

13. read (review)

Irregular Action

14. happy (review)

Verbs

15. rewrite (challenge)

Run, come, sit, hide, and tell are irregular

verbs. You do not

16. overheard

need to add an ?ed

(challenge)

to these verbs to tell

about the past.

Vocabulary Words

1. tumbling 2. flung 3. tangled 4. empty 5. swift 6. peacefully 7. stream 8. blazed

High Frequency

Words

1. away 2. began 3. brothers 4. brown 5. earth 6. here 7. learning 8. surprised 9. there 10. without

Vocabulary Strategy Antonyms

words that have opposite, or very different meanings

Example: hot and cool

Unit 5 ? Lesson 25

From Seed to Plant

Spelling Words

1. tall 2. saw 3. dog 4. draw 5. call 6. fall 7. soft 8. paw 9. ball 10. yawn 11. log

by: Gail Gibbons

Comprehension Skill

Text and Graphic Features

graphic features: pictures and diagrams

that help you understand the topic text features: labels on the diagrams that show different parts of the

diagram

Vocabulary Words

1. grain 2. pod 3. soak 4. soften 5. root 6. shoot 7. nutrition 8. tasty

High Frequency

Words

12. small

Grammar Skill

13. all (review)

More Irregular Action

14. walk (review)

Verbs

15. awful (challenge) The verbs say and eat are

16. wallpaper (challenge)

irregular verbs. Say tells about an action happening

now. Said tells about an

1. ball 2. done 3. hear 4. learn 5. leaves 6. only 7. our

action in the past. Eat tells about an action happening now. Ate tells about an action

in the past.

8. through 9. were 10. young

Vocabulary Strategy Using Context

context ? the words and sentences around a word or phrase that give readers clues to its meaning

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