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Here is the complete Grade 2 English course, Preparing to Build:

• Pupil Textbook (hardcover)
• Teacher's Manual (hardcover)
• Tests
• There are no worksheets for Grade 2

Preparing to Build contains 6 units and a short dictionary. Each unit closes with review lessons, an extra activity, and a poem. (Unit 6, as a supplementary unit, does not follow this pattern.)

This 367-page book teaches the concept of a sentence as the expression of a complete thought. Basic concepts of nouns, verbs, pronouns, and adjectives are studied. The paragraph is introduced. The supplementary unit teaches alphabetical order and basic dictionary skills.

The 404-page Teacher's Manual suggests ways for the teacher to present each lesson and supplies the answers for the various exercises and unit tests.

A separate 31-page test booklet provides tests for each of the first 5 units.

Table of Contents

Unit I - Learning About Sentences

• 1. What is a Sentence?
• 2. Phrases
• 3. The Telling Sentence
• 4. The Asking Sentence
• 5. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 6. Starting Sentences Correctly
• 7. Beginning and Ending Sentences
• 8. Making Sentences
• 9. Making More Sentences
• 10. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 11. Building More Sentences
• 12. Writing What We Know
• 13. Writing More Sentences
• 14. Answering Questions
• 15. Reviewing What We have Learned
• 16. More About Answering Questions
• 17. Writing Our Answers
• 18. Changing Word Order
• 19. Writing More Answers
• 20. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 21. A Proper Order
• 22. Putting Words in Order
• 23. Making Sentences
• 24. Writing More Sentences
• 25. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• Review One
• Review Two
• Extra Activity
• A Poem to Enjoy

Unit II - Basic Building Blocks of Our Language

• 1. Naming Words
• 2. Nouns
• 3. Nouns That Tell Who
• 4. Nouns That Tell What
• 5. Reviewing What we Have Learned
• 6. Telling Who and What
• 7. Nouns That Tell What Place
• 8. Who, What, and What Place
• 9. Finding Nouns as We Read
• 10. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 11. Writing Names of People
• 12. Writing Names of Places
• 13. Writing Proper Nouns
• 14. Recognizing Proper Nouns
• 15. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 16. Doing Words
• 17. Verbs
• 18. Finding Verbs
• 19. Using Verbs
• 20. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 21. Finding Nouns and Verbs
• 22. Completing Sentences
• 23. Building Sentences
• 24. Looking at Sentences
• 25. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• Review One
• Review Two
• Extra Activity
• A Poem to Enjoy

Unit III - Pronouns: Another Building Block of English

• 1. Words That Stand for Nouns
• 2. More About I and Me
• 3. You
• 4. The Pronoun It
• 5. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 6. He and Him
• 7. More About He and Him
• 8. She and Her
• 9. More Practice With She and Her
• 10. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 11. We and Us
• 12. We and I, Us and Me
• 13. They and Them
• 14. More Practice With They and Them
• 15. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 16. One and More Than One
• 17. Using You for One or More
• 18. He, She, It, and They
• 19. Telling About More Than One
• 20. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 21. Using Pronouns Correctly
• 22. More Practice With I and Me
• 23. Using Nouns and Pronouns
• 24. More Practice With Nouns and Pronouns
• 25. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• Review One
• Review Two
• Extra Activity
• A Poem to Enjoy

Unit IV - Meeting More Building Blocks of

• 1. Telling About Nouns
• 2. Describing Nouns
• 3. What Color Is It?
• 4. Answering Questions With Adjectives
• 5. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 6. Working With Adjectives
• 7. Describing What We See
• 8. Describing What We Hear
• 9. Using Adjectives
• 10. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 11. Building Better Sentences
• 12. How Many?
• 13. Saying What We Mean
• 14. Using Words in Correct Order
• 15. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 16. Meeting More Verbs
• 17. Was and Were
• 18. Present and Past
• 19. More Work With Present and Past
• 20. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 21. Have and Has
• 22. Have, Has, and Had
• 23. Thinking About Verbs
• 24. More Practice With Verbs
• 25. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• Review One
• Review Two
• Extra Activity
• A Poem to Enjoy

Unit V - Using Our Language

• 1. What Is a Paragraph?
• 2. What the Paragraph is About
• 3. Finding the Subject of a Paragraph
• 4. More Practice Finding the Subject
• 5. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 6. Finding the Paragraph's Subject
• 7. More Work Finding the Subject
• 8. Writing Sentences in Order
• 9. More Practice With Sentence Order
• 10. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 11. Sentences That Do Not Belong
• 12. Thinking About Things We See
• 13. Thinking About Things We Hear
• 14. Thinking About Things We Feel
• 15. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 16. Writing About What We See
• 17. Writing About What We Hear
• 18. Writing About What We Feel
• 19. Seeing, Hearing, and Feeling
• 20. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• 21. Rhyming Words
• 22. Using Rhyming Words
• 23. Finishing a Rhyme
• 24. Writing a Poem
• 25. Reviewing What We Have Learned
• Review One
• Review Two
• Extra Activity
• A Poem to Enjoy

Unit VI - Building Our Vocabulary

• 1. Alphabetical Order
• 2. More Work With Alphabetical Order
• 3. More Alphabet Practice
• 4. When Words Begin With the Same Letters
• 5. More Practice With Alphabetical Order
• 6. When the First Two Letters Are the Same
• 7. Using Alphabetical Order
• 8. Writing Names in Alphabetical Order
• 9. More Practice Writing Names in Alphabetical Order
• 10. Reviewing Alphabetical Order
• 11. Meeting the Dictionary
• 12. Finding Correct Pronunciation
• 13. Finding Word Meanings
• 14. More Practice Finding Definitions
• 15. Words Used in the Bible
• 16. Words That Sound the Same
• 17. More Words That Sound the Same
• 18. Words That Mean the Same
• 19. Using Words That Mean the Same
• 20. Choosing More Exact Words
• 21. More Practice Choosing Exact Words
• 22. Words That Tell How We Move
• 23. Words That Are Opposites
• 24. Practice With Opposites
• 25. Reviewing What We Have Learned

• Pronunciation Key
• Dictionary