About This Book

Scholastic Success With Grammar Workbook 2 is the grammar workbook of Scholastic’s Success With series at its second level — the grade-2 stage, where sentences stop merely standing and start growing. It is a practice book in the strict sense: pages made to be written in, extending a child’s command of how English is built.

Second-level grammar is an expansion project. The sentence the grade-1 learner fenced and finished now gains furniture: words that describe, so the dog becomes the big brown dog; verbs that travel in time, so what is happening today can be told about yesterday; and the small joining words that let two thoughts share one sentence without a collision. The pedagogy that works at this stage is not explanation but triangulation — the child’s ear, which already knows, the child’s eye, which is learning, and the workbook’s page, which arranges for the two to meet. Every exercise is a meeting place: choose the describing word that sounds right, and discover it is right for a reason. A series format like Success With earns its keep here precisely by changing so little. The page looks like the level below; only the grammar has grown, and growth measured against a familiar frame is growth a child can actually see in themselves.

What Learners Will Practise

Rooms Inside the Fences

Learners practise furnishing sentences: adding describing words where they do work, choosing them precisely, and feeling a spare sentence become a specific one. Description is grammar with its sleeves rolled up — the first place a young writer discovers that correctness and vividness are the same pursuit.

Doing Words Across Time

The workbook practises verbs that know about time: what happens, what is happening, what already happened. Tense at this level is not terminology but storytelling mechanics — the difference between the dog runs and the dog ran is the difference between watching and remembering, and children feel it instantly.

The Ear, Connected to the Eye

Second-level practice keeps triangulating sound and sight: sentences read aloud, judged by the ear, then repaired by the eye until the two verdicts match. That matching is the real curriculum of all early grammar — an internal editor under construction, one page at a time.

Key Features

The furnishing stage is the feature: grammar as expansion rather than foundation. The ear-eye method is the second — judgment trained, not just rules delivered — and the unchanged format the third, the same Success With architecture as the level below so the growth shows in the sentences. In this collection it is the grammar shelf’s second storey.

Who This Book Is For

Grade-2 learners whose sentences are ready to grow are its first audience. Teachers form its second readership, furnishing sentences without drowning them in terminology. Parents make its third: this is the level where children start correcting the family’s grammar at dinner, which is progress, however it feels.

How to Use This Book

Read the exercises aloud whenever possible: the ear is this level’s senior partner, and a sentence judged by sound first is a sentence understood twice. Let the learner’s own spoken sentences become raw material — transcribe one, furnish it together, watch description and tense do their work on material the child personally owns.

Related Books

The grammar shelf’s ground floor stands at Scholastic Success With Grammar Workbook 1, and the writing shelf’s top volume waits at Scholastic Success With Writing Workbook 5.