This comprehensive teaching resource helps second grade students master the conventions of standard English and boosts their vocabulary acquisition. Easy-to-scaffold lessons are clearly organized by language skills and standards to help teachers target instruction. Language Fundamentals has 207 pages of skill-based activities, including 21 review pages with multiple choice, constructed response, and open-ended questions to assess students' understanding and application of the focus skill. Format: The teacher's edition includes reproducible student pages, teacher support pages, and an answer key. Second grade skill practice covers: • Nouns • Pronouns • Adjectives • Verbs • Adverbs • Prepositions • Sentences • Capitalization • Abbreviations • Punctuation • Usage • Vocabulary • Spelling This new edition features: • Rules and examples for each language skill followed by targeted application activities and unit reviews • Vocabulary and word study strategies and practice for challenging skills such as shades of meaning and real-life connections between words and their use • Common Core Language Standards cited on activity pages for easy reference • Review activities that ask students to apply skills in context and demonstrate higher-level thinking • An easy-to-read answer key This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.