"The Macmillan English Series, Book 2" is part of a language arts program designed to present linguistic concepts, develop language usage and promote writing skills. The workbook of practice exercises for second graders stresses capitalizing and punctuating abbreviations, addresses, names and letter greetings; identifying adjectives, nouns, verbs and negatives; and using past tense, plural forms and conjunctions. Also covered are rhyming words, writing in columns, alphabetizing and proofreading. Color drawings illustrate activities such as completing senteces, rhyming, answering comprehension questions, writing sentences, and punctuating sentences. Pupils are also asked to capitalize the names of months, write addresses, and tell stories to their class. There is an accompanying teacher's edition. JAG, 5-76.