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Grade 2 English Language Arts · Level 3, Understand, recount, and analyze literary texts using details from words and illustrations.

Notice Important Words and Phrases

Determine the meaning or effect of grade-appropriate words and phrases in literary text, including rhythm/rhyme/repetition when relevant.

How the lesson starts: Notice Important Words and Phrases

1. Meet Nutmeg

   Meet Nutmeg, a squirrel who collects shiny words. Not nuts, words! Some words help her hear a sound. Some paint a picture in her mind. Let's go word hunting!

2. Hear it, see it, move it

   Nutmeg sorts her shiny words. Buzz, crunch, and splash let you hear it. Fuzzy, shiny, and striped let you see it. Zoomed, wiggled, and tiptoed show how something moves.

3. Rainy day words

   The rain went pitter-pat on the roof. The puddles sparkled in the sun. Which words tell how the rain sounds? Pitter-pat! You can hear it. Sparkled tells how the puddles look.