Journeys Weekly Skills Handout Grade 2 Unit 6 (Lessons 26-30)

Journeys Weekly Skills

Handout

Grade 2

Unit 6 (Lessons 26-30)

Unit 6 ? Lesson 26

The Mysterious Tadpole

by: Steven Kellogg

Spelling Words

Vocabulary

1. root 2. crew 3. spoon 4. few 5. bloom 6. grew 7. room 8. you 9. stew

Comprehension Skill Story Structure and Conclusions

Story structure - the way characters, a setting, and

a plot are put in a story

Conclusions ? ideas arrived at after putting

Words

1. ordinary 2. control 3. cage 4. upset 5. sensible 6. confused 7. training 8. suspiciously

10. boost

together pieces of

High

11. scoop

information

Frequency

12. flew

Words

13. zoo (review)

14. noon (review)

15. shampoo (challenge)

16. balloon (challenge)

Grammar Skill Contractions

A contraction is a short way of writing two words. An apostrophe (') shows which letters were left out. Example: do not= don't

1. again 2. ago 3. alone 4. don't 5. every 6. follow 7. goes 8. head 9. now

Vocabulary

10. won't

Strategy

Multiple-Meaning Words

A multiple meaning word is a word that has more than one meaning ? you can use context clues to determine which meaning is being used in a story

Unit 6 ? Lesson 27

The Dog That Dug for Dinosaurs

by: Shirley Raye Redmond

Vocabulary

Spelling Words Comprehension

Words

1. took 2. books

Skill Fact and Opinion

1. exact 2. discovered

3. foot 4. hoof 5. cook 6. nook 7. hood 8. wood 9. stood 10. shook 11. crook

A fact is something that can be proved to be true or false. An opinion is what someone believes or

feels.

Grammar Skill What is an Adverb?

3. remove 4. growled 5. amazed 6. explained 7. guard 8. souvenirs

High Frequency

Words

12. cookbook 13. look (review) 14. good (review)

An adverb describes a verb.

1. buy 2. called 3. even

15. crooked (challenge)

16. bookcase (challenge)

Adverbs can tell about how something is done.

4. father 5. maybe 6. outside 7. tomorrow

8. town

9. water

Vocabulary Strategy

Shades of Meaning

10. where

Synonyms are words that have the same or almost the same meaning. Many synonyms have slightly different meanings.

Unit 6 ? Lesson 28

Yeh-Shen

by: Gina Sabella

Spelling Words

1. cow 2. house 3. town 4. shout 5. down 6. mouse 7. found 8. loud

Comprehension Skill

Sequence of Events

The sequence of events is the order in which things happen.

9. brown

10. ground

11. pound

12. flower

Grammar Skill

13. out (review) 14. now (review) 15. towel (challenge) 16. pounce

(challenge)

Possessive Nouns

A possessive noun shows that a person, or thing owns or

has something.

Ex. king's men

Vocabulary Words

1. task 2. glimmering 3. served 4. content 5. worn 6. overjoyed 7. concealed 8. valuable

High Frequency

Words

1. above 2. enough 3. falling 4. happened 5. lived 6. loved 7. should 8. sorry 9. want 10. while

Vocabulary Strategy

Classify/ Categorize

Classify- to place like objects in a group Categorize- to name a group of like objects

Unit 6 ? Lesson 29

Two of Everything

by: Lily Toy Hong

Spelling Words

1. aim 2. snail 3. bay 4. braid 5. ray 6. always 7. gain 8. sly 9. chain 10. shy 11. bright 12. fright 13. tray (review) 14. try (review) 15. contain

(challenge) 16. thigh

(challenge)

Comprehension Skill

Understanding Characters

To understand characters better think

about what the characters do and say

when they have a problem.

Grammar Skill Possessive Pronouns

A possessive pronoun shows that a person or animal owns or has something.

My, your, his, and her come before a noun to show that someone has or owns something

Vocabulary Words

1. search 2. contained 3. startled 4. odd 5. leaned 6. tossed 7. grateful 8. village

High Frequency

Words

1. eight 2. near 3. once 4. paper 5. seven 6. upon 7. wash 8. who 9. woman 10. your

Vocabulary Words that have opposite or very Strategy different meanings

Antonyms

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