Second-grade students will master standards-based language and vocabulary skills through engaging hands-on center activities. Each of the 12 centers focuses on one skill aligned in a format that is accessible and motivating for all types of learners. These portable language centers help teachers to: support kinesthetic and visual learners provide differentiated practice of language and vocabulary skills offer a quality center activity review or reinforce skills informally assess a student's understanding of concepts The 12 centers cover the following Conventions of Standard English and Vocabulary Acquisition and Use skills: Matching sentences with collective nouns to pictures and writing sentences using collective nouns Using irregular plural nouns to complete sentences Using reflexive pronouns in sentences Completing sentences using irregular verbs in the past tense, and writing sentences using irregular verbs in the past tense Using adjectives and adverbs to complete sentences Producing, expanding, and rearranging simple and compound sentences Identifying correct capitalization of holidays, product names, and geographic names in sentences Using apostrophes in contractions and possessives Using sentence context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase Matching words with prefixes to definitions Making compound words and matching to pictures to show word meaning Sorting and writing sentences to identify real-life connections between words and their use Each easy-to-assemble center provides a hands-on activity with a written practice activity, as well as: correlations and targeted skills full-color center mats and task cards an overview with lesson objectives a student direction page that explains the center activity a center checklist to record each student's progress Better Together! Use centers to enhance the daily practice in Daily Language Review. Center activities complement the skills presented in Daily Language Review to help teachers reinforce and review key language skills in a fun format. This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.