Language
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Standard
Focus Skills
Description
CCSS.ELA-
Literacy.L.2.6
Use acquired vocabulary including descriptives
Use vocabulary acquired from listening, conversing, reading, and responding to texts including descriptive adjectives and adverbs (e.g., beautiful, quickly, slowly)
CCSS.ELA-
Literacy.L.2.4b
Use word parts to decode / predict word meaning
Use knowledge of simple affixes (e.g., un-, re-, over-, -er, -est) and familiar base words to decode and predict the meanings of new words
CCSS.ELA-
Literacy.L.2.4c
Use root words to decode / predict word meaning
Use knowledge of grade-appropriate roots to decode and predict the meanings of unfamiliar words (e.g., dinner, dine, diner)
CCSS.ELA-
Literacy.L.2.4
Determine meaning of homophones / homographs
Identify and use homophones (e.g., know/no, hear/here) and homographs/multiple-meaning words (e.g., point, safe) and determine their meanings in grade-appropriate texts using sentence context or prior knowledge of spellings