Writing Process Student Printable - Students should keep this printable in a writing folder or notebook. 2W5
Writing Process Power Point - Use this Power Point to introduce the writing process. 2W5
Writing Process Pin Chart - Laminate, cut, and attach posters to a ribbon on the wall. Then, laminate, cut, and attach the matching number labels to clothespins. Assign a clothespin to each student and have them move it according to the process they are on. 2W5
Write Opinions Supported by Facts - This video should be used to introduce how to use facts to support opinions. 2W1
Word Hunts - How to use word hunts to support vocabulary building. Also includes examples for cross-curricular instruction. 2RI4
Video on Nonfiction Text Features - This video presents an overview of nonfiction text features. 2RI7, 2RI6
Video modeling list-group-label strategy for vocabulary instruction - Video of a 2nd grade teacher modeling the instructional strategy of list-group-label to support vocabulary acquisition. 2RI4
Verbs Video Lesson - Learn Zillion video lesson on Verbs. 2L1e
Tortoise and the Hare - Reader's Response Packet - A reading and writing response packet of printables to accompany the Tortoise and the Hare. 2RL2; 2W3; 2SL4
The Shark: Silent Hunter - Lesson plan to help students identify and describe the main idea of a nonfiction text using section headings and textual details. 2RI2
The Perfect Planet - Close Reading Passages and Resources - Resources for a close reading lesson includes a non-fiction passage in 3 different Lexile levels, graphic organizers, and text-dependent questions. 2RI10
Text Features in Informational Text - Learning resource and graphic organizers for locating and using various text features in informational text. 2RI5
Text Evidence or Main Idea and Details - Printable to support students in finding text evidence of main idea and supporting details. 2RI8
Story Structure - Interactive Foldable - This foldable will help your students organize the beginning, middle, and end of a story using visuals and writing skills. 2RL5
Story Map Graphic Organizers - Story Map graphic organizer templates and accompanying resources. 2RL5
Story Map for Arthur Stories - Printable story map and example demonstrates how story maps are used with an Arthur story. Students identify the setting, characters, the problem, and the solution in the story. 2RL3
Story Map - Characters, Problem, Solution - Story map template for students to identify the setting, characters, the problem, how characters respond to the problem, and the solution in the story. 2RL3
Skeleton Close Read Packet - Packet includes non-fiction close reading passage, text-dependent questions, graphic organizers, and writing activities. 2RI10
Shared Reading Instructional Video - Instructional Video for 2nd grade shared reading including phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. 2RL10; 2RF3; 2RF4
Second Grade Shared Reading - Video of a teacher modeling instructional procedures for shared reading in second grade. 2RL10
Responding to Nonfiction: An Informational Text Graphic Organizer - A graphic organizer for students to respond to informational texts to show what they have learned. 2RI5
Reflexive Pronouns: 2nd Grade Common Core Sorting Activity - This Sorting activity is a great way for your students to match nouns with reflexive pronouns. The activity is great for a literacy center or partner activity.2L1c
Reflexive Pronoun Assessment - This reflexive pronoun worksheet should be used as a pretest and post test.2L1c
Reflexive Pronoun Anchor Chart - This is an example of a Reflexive Pronoun anchor chart. 2L1c
Rebus Rhymes - Webpage full of links to rebus nursery rhymes, songs, and poems. 2RL4
Ready Read - Informational Passages - Resources for informational text to support students in describing connections between scientific ideas. 2RI3
ReadWriteThink: Blast Off! Vocabulary Instruction Using a Virtual Field Trip - This lesson is designed to help first- and second-grade students learn new vocabulary by taking them on virtual adventures that replicate field trips. Students begin by accessing prior knowledge through an initial writing activity. Ensuing discussions, read-alouds, and the creation of a picture dictionary "take students to the moon," while further building their vocabulary. 2RI4
Readworks.org: Read-Aloud Lesson - The Empty Pot - Lesson plan and resources for teaching students to identify and compare the actions of the characters to determine the theme of a folk tale: "The Empty Pot" by Demi Fountas and Pinnell. 2RL2
Reading Interventions Menu - Chart listing research-based interventions for reading skills in which students need support. 2RL10, 2RI10
Reading and Writing about Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts - Lesson plan and resources to teach first and second grade students how to formulate research questions and write letters. The lesson uses the nonfiction picture book Big Blue Whale by Nicola Davies to present factual information about blue whales and the fiction picture book Dear Mr. Blueberry by Simon James to demonstrate how a letter can be used to ask questions and foster inquiry about blue whales. 2RI10, 2RF10, 2RI8, 2W7, 2W8
Readers Theater with Jan Brett - Lesson plan in which students interact with the book Hedgie's Surprise by Jan Brett and create a Readers Theatre that is performed for an audience. Students make predictions about the story prior to reading and listen to a read-aloud of the story. Postreading, they make observations about the characters, setting, and plot. 2RL7
Proper Nouns Video Lesson - This is an interactive video lesson on Proper Nouns. 2L2a
Proper Noun PowerPoint - Proper Noun Power Point 2L2a
Proper Noun Lesson Plan - Proper Noun Lesson Plan 2L2a
Proper Noun Anchor Chart - This is an example of a Proper Noun anchor chart. 2L2a
Produce, Expand, and Rearrange Sentences Worksheet. - This packet should be used to practice rearranging and expanding simple sentences.
Point of View Sample Lesson with Anchor Chart - Anchor Charts and Graphic Organizer for exploring characters' points of view. 2RL6
Point of View and Voice Video - Video to introduce points of view of different characters, also includes speaking in a different voice. 2RL6
Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading - Five 15-minute lessons. Through a weekly poem, students explore meaning, sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts. 2RL4
Plot Diagram - Interactive Tool - The Plot Diagram is an organizational tool focusing on a pyramid or triangular shape, which is used to map the events in a story. This mapping of plot structure allows readers and writers to visualize the key features of stories. 2RL5
Picture Understanding - Lesson Plan - Lesson plan to teach essential story elements, including character, setting, conflict, and resolution, through the completion of graphic organizers and by presenting a book talk. 2RL7
Paragraph Shrinking - Comprehension Strategy - Paragraph shrinking is an activity that allows each student to take turns reading, pausing, and summarizing the main points of each paragraph. Students provide each other with feedback as a way to monitor comprehension. 2RI8
Opinion Writing Video - In this lesson you will learn how to identify and describe opinion writing by finding words that show strong feelings, a clear opinion statement, and supporting reasons. 2W1
Opinion Writing Prompts - This resource provides a number of opinion writing prompts as well as an opinion writing anchor chart. 2W1
Non-fiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt - Packet with a printable scavenger hunt for text features and a student made poster. 2RI7, 2 RI6
Non-fiction Text Features Posters - This packet contains colorful posters to teach 20 non-fiction text features. 2RI5
Nonfiction Text Features Flipbook - A flipbook printable to help students learn the nonfiction text features. It also includes scavenger hunt cards where they find each feature in nonfiction books. 2RI7, 2RI6
Narrative Writing Posters - These posters can be displayed to help students understand what narrative writing is. 2W3
Narrative Writing Graphic Organizer - This is a simple graphic organizer that can be used with narrative writing. 2W3
Mr. and Mrs. Comma - The students create Mr. and Mrs. Comma. The student should then divide a paper into fourth, and indicate the four places a comma should be found in a letter. 2L2b
Lesson on Comprehending Informational Text - Video - Video of a lesson on comprehending informational text, including main topic, key details, and text features. 2RI2
Kid Friendly Narrative Writing Rubric - This is a rubric that uses kid-friendly terms for commonly expected standards in a narrative writing. It uses the visual of ice cream scoops to illustrate the scores of 4, 3, 2, or 1. 2W3
Jigsaw Strategy Video and Teaching Resources - Video modeling instruction and other resources for using the jigsaw strategy to support students' comprehension of informational text. 2RI5
Irregular Plural Noun Video - This YouTube video introduces Irregular Plural Nouns. 2L1b
Irregular Plural Nouns Power Point - Introduction to Irregular Plural Nouns Power Point. 2L1b
Irregular Plural Noun Lesson Plan - This is an example of an Irregular Plural Noun lesson plan. 2L1b
Irregular Plural Noun Anchor Chart - Irregular Plural Noun Anchor Chart 2L1b
Irregular Past Tense Verb Video - Learn Zillion video lesson on Irregular Past Tense Verbs. 2L1d
Irregular Past Tense Verb Video - Irregular Past Tense Verbs video lesson. 2L1d
Irregular Past Tense Verbs Anchor Chart - This is an example of an Irregular Past Tense Verbs anchor chart. 2L1d
Interactive Timeline and Lesson Plans - Timeline allows students to create a graphical representation of an event or process by displaying items sequentially along a line. Timelines can be organized by time of day, date, or event, and the tool allows users to create a label with short or long descriptive text. Can also add images. 2RI3
Informational Writing Video - This video should be used as an introduction to information writing. 2W1
Informational Writing Prompts - This link includes information writing prompts and a graphic organizer. 2W2
Historical Connections - Graphic Organizer - Printable graphic organizer for identifying and connecting historical events. 2RI3
Good Readers Ask and Answer Questions - Graphic organizers for students to practice asking and answering questions while reading. They will be able to organize their thoughts and comprehend what they are reading when asking and answering questions about their reading. 2RI1, 2RL1
Friendly Letter Format Printable - Students should use this printable to form a friendly letter. 2L2b
Fractured Fairy Tale - The Three Little Pigs - Students practice reading with expression with this fractured fairy tale Reader's Theater script based on the Three Little Pigs. 2RL9
Fractured Fairy Tale Graphic Organizers - Printable Graphic Organizers for students to compare and contrast 2 versions of fairy tales. 2RL9
Flocabulary Songs: Author's Purpose - Song and video about author's purpose. 2RI6
Flip It! Ask & Answer Question Cards - Printable cards with prompts for students to practice asking and answering questions about key details in a text. 2RL1: Ask and answer questions
Finding Fabulous Financial Literacy Vocabulary with Fancy Nancy - Through a think-aloud read-aloud of the book, "Fancy Nancy and the Fabulous Fashion Boutique", the lesson will illuminate key economic vocabulary embedded in the text, as well as illustrate how to introduce key economic concepts through think-alouds and talking/writing about the text. The concepts/vocabulary will be introduced in the story and reinforced through a variety of ReadWriteThink interactive tools. 2RI4
Expository Fact Strip - Expository Text Structure - Learning activity and graphic organizer to aide students in determining the main topic and key details in expository text. 2RI2
Exploring Phonics through Dr. Seuss - Three 50-minute lessons. Students begin exploring sounds through a read-aloud of Dr. Seuss's Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You? They then play with the sounds in their classroom, creating words that capture what they hear. Next, they explore sounds from selected Websites and record what they hear on a chart, using spelling strategies to help them. Finally, students create original cinquain poems using sound words. 2RL4; 2RF3
Expanding Sentences Video - This video provides an idea of a lesson meant to introduce Expanding Sentences. 2L1f
Expanding Sentences PowerPoint - This PowerPoint guides students through expanding a very simple sentence. 2L1f
eSpark Learning: Compare and Contrast Reading Strategy Instructional Video - This video teaches and gives examples of comparing and contrasting two nonfiction texts. 2RI9
Eight Ways to Help Kids to Read Complex Text - Literacy expert Timothy Shanahan shares best practices for teaching reading and writing. 2RL10
Earth Day Informational Text - Packet including an informational passage on Earth Day and resources for close reading. 2RI8
Day 18 Mustang Minute - Point of View rap video to introduce differences in points of view of characters. 2RL6
Contraction or Possessive Noun Sort Activity - This sentence sort is a great way to teach and reinforce proper use of apostrophes, contractions, and possessives. The sentences are simple allowing students and teachers to focus on the context of the word. This sort can be placed in a station for older students or may be a small group reading and writing lesson for younger students or English Language Learners. 2L2c
Concept Mapping Activities - Guide to concept mapping activities with examples. 2RL7
Concept Map Example - Example of a concept map mobile for students to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text and subtopics within the text. 2RI2
Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction with "Little Red Riding Hood" Text Sets - Beginning with a comparative study of selected, illustrated retellings of the traditional folktale “Little Red Riding Hood,” including versions from several different cultures, this literature unit continues with a study of modern revisions of this well-known tale. 2RL2
Compare and Contrast Texts - Graphic Organizers - Graphic Organizers for comparing and contrasting 2 texts. 2RL9
Compare/Contrast Life Cycle Texts - Lesson plans and accompanying resources for comparing and contrasting two texts on the same topic. 2RI9
Commas Anchor Chart - This anchor chart should be displayed to remind students of comma placement. 2L2b
Collective Noun Lesson Plan - Collective Noun Farm 2L1a
Collective Noun Anchor Chart - This is an example of a Collective Noun anchor chart. 2L1a
Collective Noun Anchor Chart - This is an example of a Collective Noun anchor chart. 2L1a
Close Reading - Compare and Contrast Two Informational Texts - Packet includes two nonfiction reading passages on the same topic and close reading activities. 2RI9
Classic Classifying - Expository Text Structure - This resource was designed to help students classify information in text. Using the provided organizer, students write words that relate to and describe a category. 2RI1
Choosing Interesting Adjectives and Verbs - Video lesson on Choosing Interesting Adjectives and Verbs. 2L1e
Character Selfies: Character Analysis, Point of View, and Visualization - Learning activity in which students draw from the point of view of the character. In order to draw from the characters point of view, the reader needs to get inside the character’s feelings. 2RL6
Characters' Response - Exploring the Subtext Strategy - Students use the Subtext Strategy to take on the perspectives of various characters in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and think beyond the written text. 2RL3
Bookworm Interactive Reading Lesson Plans - This website has an extensive set of interactive read aloud plans. They are linked individually by title and then compiled into documents for each quarter of the school year. Interactive read alouds are meant to alternate with modeled writing and eventually process writing. Each day's lesson ends with sentence composing, which is an interactive, teacher-directed form of grammar instruction. 2RI10, 2RL10, 2RI1, 2RL1
Author's Purpose PowerPoint - Short PowerPoint that can be used as an activating activity to get students thinking about author's purpose. It is a great way to get students talking about the three types of writing and discuss what the purpose of each picture is. 2RI6
Asking and Answering Questions Video - In this video, students will learn how to ask and answer questions before, while, and after reading a fiction book. 2RL1
Asking and Answering Questions - Interactive Reader's Notebook activity - Activity and graphic organizer for Interactive Reader's Notebook for asking and answering questions. 2RL1, 2RI1
Ask and Answer Questions in Non-Fiction Texts - Graphic Organizer - This 5-3-1 graphic organizer helps students to pick apart and close read non-fiction texts. 2RI1
Apostrophe Printable (Contractions and Possessives) - This printable should be printed and placed in writing folders. The students will see how apostrophes are used in sentences. Contractions and Possessives are modeled.2L2c
Apostrophe Instructional Video - It’s possessive. It’s often followed by S’s. And it’s sometimes tricky when it comes to its usage. It’s the apostrophe. Laura McClure gives a refresher on when to use apostrophes in writing.2L2c
Adjective Video Lesson - Learn Zillion Adjective video lesson. 2L2e
Adjective and Adverb as Modifier Assessment - This worksheet should be used as a pretest and post test assessing adjectives and adverbs as modifiers. 2L1e
A chart used to help children decide what to write about. - This chart was designed specifically for use with Lucy Calkins Units of Study, How-To Books. If you don’t use Units of Study as your curriculum, this is still a great chart to help teach our young writers how to think of creative topics to write about. Teach your students how to refer back to the chart when trying to brainstorm ideas of what to write about. 2W2