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Benson Primary > Second Grade
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Just For You Theme 1: Being Me
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VOCABULARY
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GRAMMAR SKILL
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FOCUS
SKILL/STRATEGY
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PHONICS
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The Mixed-Up Chameleon
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dull, exciting, handsome, hardly, sideways, sparkling, spotted
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Sentences
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Main Idea
Decoding
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ide, id
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Get Up and Go!
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homework, minutes, snuggle, treat, always
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Statements and Questions
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Author’s Purpose
Reread Aloud
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ake, ame
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Henry and Mudge Under the Yellow Moon
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chipmunks, picked, sniffing, south, woods
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Commands and Exclamations
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Setting
Self-Correcting
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Suffix
-ed
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Days With Frog and Toad
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alone, cheer, fine, meadow, reason, spoiled
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Naming Parts of Sentences
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Compare/Contrast
Imaging
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Change y to i add ed
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Wilson Sat Alone
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clustered, gathered, raced, wandered, amazing
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Telling Parts of Sentences
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Characters
Predicting
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at, ate
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Just For You Theme 2: Helping Hands
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VOCABULARY
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GRAMMAR SKILL
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FOCUS
SKILL/STRATEGY
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PHONICS
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The Enormous Turnip
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enormous, granddaughter, grew, planted, strong, turnip
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Nouns
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Sequencing
Summarizing
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ack, ock
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Helping Out
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alongside, chores, engine, simple, sprout, tool
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Plural Nouns
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Main Idea
Decoding
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ear
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Mr. Putter and Tabby Fly the Plane
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cranes, directions, promise, twitch, worry
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Plural Nouns
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Predicting
Chunking
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Abbreviations
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Hedgehog Bakes a Cake
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batter, buttery, perfect, recipe, smeared, yellow cake
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Proper Nouns
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Synonyms
Inferencing
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our
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Lemonade For Sale
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announced, arrived, glum, members, rebuild
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Nouns
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Compare/Contrast
Reading Ahead
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ar
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Theme 3: Our World
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VOCABULARY
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GRAMMAR SKILL
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FOCUS
SKILL/STRATEGY
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PHONICS
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Johnny Appleseed
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frontier, nearby, orchards, survive, tame, wild
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Days of the Week
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Details
Imaging
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eer, ear
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From Seed to Plant
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beautiful, nutrition, protects, ripens, streams
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Names of the Months
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Reading Diagrams
Rereading
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spr, str, thr
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The Secret Life of Trees
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discover, energy, forecast, shed, source
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Names of Holidays
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Fact/Fiction
Chunking
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oo
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Watermelon Day
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beneath, relay race, shimmered, snug, wrinkled, knelt
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Abbreviations
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Inferencing
Sequencing/Summarizing
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kn, wr, gn
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Pumpkin Fiesta
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boasted, crept, crown, village, vines
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Possessives
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Predicting
Self-Correcting
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y to i add es
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Banner Days Theme 1: Imagine That!
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VOCABULARY
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GRAMMAR SKILL
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FOCUS
SKILL/STRATEGY
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PHONICS
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The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash
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boring, ducked, sense, tractor, suppose
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Pronouns
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Cause/Effect
Prediction
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ou, ow
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation
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captured, imagination, manners, matador, plains, relax, vacation
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Adjectives
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Cause/Effect
Inferencing
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oi, oy
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Dear Mr. Blueberry
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details, disappoint, forcibly, information, oceans, stroke
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Adjectives
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Inferencing
Reading Ahead
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oo, ue
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Cool Ali
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admired, fussed, haze, mimicked, notice, pale
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Adjectives
How many
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Antonyms
Imaging
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Plurals
f to vies
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The Emperor’s Egg
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flippers, hatch, horizon, miserable, slippery, waddled
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Adjectives
Comparing
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Fact/Fiction
Chunking
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Suffixes
ing, ly
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Banner Days Theme 2: Neighborhood News
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VOCABULARY
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GRAMMAR SKILL
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FOCUS
SKILL/STRATEGY
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PHONICS
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The Pine Park Mystery
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caused, clasp, confused, cornered, objects, removes, typical
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Verbs
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Story Parts
Using Context
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re-
pre-
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Good-bye, Curtis
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addresses, clerk, grown, honor, pour, route
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Noun/Verb Agreement
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Compare/Contrast
Story Sequence/Summary
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Contractions
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Max Found Two Sticks
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appeared, conductor, created, imitated, rhythm, startled
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Past-Tense Verbs
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Multiple-Meaning Words
Self-Correcting
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ew, ui
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Anthony Reynoso: Born to Jump
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dappled, exhibition, landscape, business, ranch, thousands
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Being Verbs
(am, is, are, was, were)
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Summarizing
Decoding
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ph, gh
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Chinatown
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celebrations, develop, furious, graceful, grocery store, students
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Being Verbs
(has, have, had)
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Details
Imaging
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Suffixes
-er, -est
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Banner Days Theme 3: Travel Time
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VOCABULARY
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GRAMMAR SKILL
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FOCUS
SKILL/STRATEGY
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PHONICS
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Abuela
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flock, guide, harbor, soared, swooping
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Verbs
(see, saw, give, gave)
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Inferencing
Chunking
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air, are
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Beginner’s World Atlas
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connects, distance, features, mapmaker, peel
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Verbs
(come, came, run, ran)
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Locating Information
Decoding
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oo, ou
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Dinosaurs Travel
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cassette, companions, luggage, relatives, sturdy
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Verbs
(go, went, do, did)
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Author’s Purpose
Using Context
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ou
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Montigue on the High Seas
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cozy, drifted, fleet, launched, looming, realized
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Helping Verbs
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Homophones
Imaging
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aw, au
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Ruth Law Thrills a Nation
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feat, heroine, hospitality, refused, spectators, stood
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Contractions
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Predicting
Reading Ahead
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Prefixes
over, un
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