GRADE 2 MIDTERM REVIEW READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS
1. Vocabulary Words: know the meaning of the vocabulary words from the following stories. Also know the spelling words from the same stories. Both can be found in the notebook and Reading Practice Book.
A. The Mixed Up Chameleon
B. Get Up and Go
C. Henry and Mudge
D. Days with Frog and Toad
E. Wilson Sat Alone
The definitions for the vocabulary words can be found in your child's notebook listed under the name of the story. A good review for the Reading Exam would be to review pages 1-58 in the Reading Practice Book.
2. High Frequency Words: Your child should know how to read the following words. He/she does not need to know how to spell or define them.
Theme 1: big, brown, eat, no, people/ get, line, more, stop, together/ about, boy, fall, few, same/ alone, home, right, think/ ball, children, eat, girl, name/
Theme 2: black, grow, last, man, mouse/ after, early, hot, pretty, someone/ before, blue, ever, jump, room/ bit, cake, open, smell, thank/ between, enough, fill, idea, number
The children should know what the following terms mean: synonyms, antonyms, homophone, fiction, nonfiction, setting, character, and
syllable. The meanings can be found in the Reading NB and the Reading Practice Book.
WEEKLY VOCABULARY WORDS FROM THE VOCABULARY NB FROM SEPT. 09- DEC. 2009 SHOULD ALSO BE REVIEWED FOR THE MIDTERM EXAM.
LANGUAGE ARTS MIDTERM EXAM
Language Arts Handbook pgs. 79-102
4 TYPES OF SENTENCES:
1. Statement- The boy ran around the track.
2. Question- Do you know the correct time?
3. Command/Request- Please close the door.
4. Exclamation- It is so cold in here!
*Remember:
Every sentence begins with a capital letter.
Every sentence ends with an end mark.
Every sentence tells a complete thought.
The words in a sentence are in an order that makes sense.
Every sentence has two parts: a naming part and a telling part
Naming Parts of Sentences-tells who or what the sentence is about. It can name one, two, or more people or things. If it names two or more the word and is used to join them.
eg. Frog and Toad ate lunch. (Frog and Toad is the naming part of the sentence because it names who the sentence is about.)
Telling Parts of Sentences- tells what someone or something is or does. It can tell one, two, or more things that someone or something does. The word and may be used to join them.
eg. The boy sat alone. (sat alone is the telling part because it tells what the boy does.)
Nouns- names a person, place, thing, or animal
Singular noun: names one person, place, or thing.
Plural noun: names more than one person, place, or thing.
Add –s or –es to make most nouns plural. For nouns that end in a consonant and y, change y to I and add –es. Add –es to nouns that end in s, ss, x, ch, or sh.
eg. boy-boys, girl-girls, box-boxes, glass-glasses, lunch-lunches, dish-dishes, bus-buses, party-parties, candy-candies, holiday-holidays
Irregular plural noun- some nouns change their spelling to name more than one.
eg. woman-women, foot-feet, goose-geese, child-children, tooth-teeth, mouse-mice, man-men, leaf-leaves
