STUDENT PRACTICE BOOK Editing Skills for Grade 2 Table of Contents Puntuation Sentenes: Start with a Capital Letter...2 Sentenes: Corret End Puntuation...4 Capital Letters: Proper Nouns...6 Common Nouns...8 Capital Letters and End Puntuation Review...10 Spelling Words Featuring and k...12 Words Featuring Long a and Long e Vowels...14 Homonyms...16 Commonly Misspelled Words...18 Spelling Review...20 Grammar Subjet-Verb Agreement...22 Corret Verb Forms...24 Plural Nouns...26 Grammar Review...28 Mixed Review...30 Answer Key...32 Copyright 2006 by Weekly Reader Corporation. All rights reserved. Material in this book may not be reprodued; stored in a retrieval system; or transmitted in any form or by any means, eletroni, mehanial, photoopying, or other, without speial permission from the Weekly Reader Corporation. Printed in the U.S.A. ISBN: 9-780837-479811 1 2 3 4 5 / 10 09 08 07 06
Tom Bean/Corbis Burrows Prairie dogs are rodents that live in big groups alled towns. prairie dogs dig burrows as their homes. burrows are underground tunnels. Prairie dogs sleep and raise their young in small rooms inside the burrows. some prairie dog towns are many miles wide and are home to millions of prairie dogs! Tom Walker/Getty Images Jim Steinberg/Photo Researhers W. Perry Conway/Corbis entranes rooms Lodges beavers are rodents that live in small groups alled families. some beavers build lodges in rivers or ponds as their homes. they use logs, tree branhes, and mud to build a lodge. a beaver lodge has one room that is above water. beavers have to swim underwater to get inside their lodge. logs and stiks mud entranes tunnels 2
Starting Off Right Oops! Every sentene should start with a apital letter. But we made eight mistakes. Can you spot the eight missing apital letters? Cirle the goofs in the story. Then write the orret apitalized words on the lines below. We found the first goof for you. Prairie QUICK CHECK Time for a quik quiz about the story. Cirle the right answers. 1. Prairie dogs are in an animal family alled. a prairies b rodents burrows 2. How many animals might live in a prairie dog town? a billions b millions hundreds 3. What is one thing prairie dogs do inside burrows? a ook b whisper sleep 4. Prairie dogs are rodents. are rodents, too. a Swans b Birds Beavers 5. What is interesting about a beaver lodge? a Beavers have to enter them underwater. b They are built on the tops of mountains. They are made entirely of leaves. Would you rather be a prairie dog or a beaver? Write what you think life might be like for eah of these rodents.then say whih one you like best, and explain why. 3
Changing Colors Some animals, like hameleons, have skin olor that an hange Those animals hange their skin olor to hide from their enemies The animal s skin olor hanges to blend into its setting, suh as a tree s bark Can you find both hameleons Mathing Colors Some animals, like geko lizards, have olors that math their settings Those animals use mathing olor to hide from their enemies The animal s olor mathes its setting, suh as snow or rok Can you find the geko and the arti fox David A. Northott/Corbis Roger De La Harpe/Corbis Robert Gill; Papillo/Corbis 4
Happy Endings Every sentene should end with a puntuation mark. We left out eight periods and question marks. Can you find where they go? Cirle eah goof in the two artiles. Write the word and the puntuation that should ome next on the lines below. We aught the first goof for you. hange. QUICK CHECK Now irle the best answers to these questions. 1. Why do some animals hange their skin olor? a to hide b to eat to pretend 2. What happens when an animal s olor blends into its setting? a b Its fur peels off. Its skin turns into a tree. Its skin looks like part of nature. 3. If animals an hide in a setting without hanging olor, then. a b they will get lost they will be hurt by enemies their olors math the setting 4. An arti fox looks like it lives in areas. a sandy b snowy mountain 5. Some animals an hange or math olors to blend in with. a enemies b roks ars Would it be fun to hange olor? Write about a boy or girl who an hange olors. What do other kids think about this speial talent? 5
Columbus Had an Idea Compass Rose hristopher olumbus lived long, long ago. People had to go to faraway plaes to get spies and gold. Those trips were long and hard. Columbus wanted to find a shorter way to get Columbus Sailed Columbus and his rew left spain in august 1492. They sailed on three ships, alled the Niña, the pinta, and the santa maria. The trip was long and stormy. Just when the rew was ready to give up, they saw land! to those lands. He had an idea to ross the oean. He found people to help pay for his trip. Look at the map above to see where olumbus first sailed. These ships were built to look like Columbus s ships. Map illustration: John Meza THINKING CUE Why might Columbus s trip have made him famous? Maro Ventra 6