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Grade 2 English Language Arts · Level 2, Use word meaning, morphology, grammar, and conventions to understand and build clear sentences.

Add Helpful Describing Words

Use adjectives and adverbs to make meaning more precise, including common -ly adverbs where appropriate.

How the lesson starts: Add Helpful Describing Words

1. Ika paints with words

   This is Ika the octopus. Ika paints pictures with words! A kite flew. That is plain. A red kite flew. Now you can see it! Describing words add the color.

2. Adjectives tell about things

   An adjective tells about a noun. It can tell color, size, or what something is like. The red kite flew. The tiny fish swam. Red tells about the kite. Tiny tells about the fish.

3. Ika picks a paint

   The, blank, crab danced. Which word tells about the crab? Ika tries slowly. The slowly crab? No! Jumped? The jumped crab? No! Happy tells what the crab is like. The happy crab danced!