2nd grade english language arts lesson pdfs

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing

This personal narrative writer's workshop unit is aligned with the common core standards! It uses small moments to help guide students in writing narratives about their life. This was designed with first grade in mind, but can easily work in kindergarten and second grade classrooms. I needed structure and guidance for my first graders to successfully write their own personal narratives, so I created this packet to do just that! In this unit:Teacher Tips from my classroomDaily lessons in the "I d

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

W.1.3

Also included in: First Grade Writing Workshop Units for the Year

Poetry Unit Poetry Writing Bundle

Created by

Inspired Elementary

This Poetry Unit makes teaching poetry writing NO PREP! This is a complete FIVE week Poetry Writing Unit for writer's workshop! Students are introduced to writing 14 different styles of poetry. All you have to do is print and teach.Original poem examples are included for every poem (so you don't have to think of one!). Google Slides™ version of Student Planning Pages and Final Copy Pages are included too!THIS UNIT WILL DO ALL THE WORK FOR YOU in guiding students through 14 DIFFERENT STYLES OF PO

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Poetry, Writing

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

Unit Plans, Lesson, Centers

Poetry Unit for Primary Grades {Poetry Journal for Poetry Month}

Created by

Teaching with Terhune

This poetry unit makes writing poetry simple and fun for your students! It is also a teacher friendly unit that has everything you need in one download! No prep needed, simply print and teach!This unit covers a total of 28 different poems. Each poem has a teacher explanation sheet with a poem example, as well as a writing template for your students to use as they write their own poem!This unit can be covered in a 1-5 week time frame, depending on how long you want to spend on each type of poem

Subjects:

Poetry, Writing

Grades:

1st - 4th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.1.4

, RL.1.10

, RL.2.4

, RL.2.10

, RL.3.5

...

Also included in: Writing Center Board and Activities MEGA BUNDLE for students to Work on Writing

Text Features Worksheets, Hunt RI.2.5 Reading Comprehension Passages 2nd Grade

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English Language Arts, Informational Text, Reading

This RI.2.5 nonfiction text features 2nd grade reading unit is packed full of worksheets, anchor charts, standards-based lesson plans, Lexile passages, and activities to use while you are teaching the standard RI.2.5. If you are not teaching Common Core, then the unit is still valuable to use when teaching students to find and use text features in their informational text. Please check out the preview to see ALL that you're getting! In the RI.2.5 pack you will receive: 4 Mini Lessons with Anchor

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Grades:

2nd

Types:

Tara West - Little Minds at Work

CCSS:

RI.2.5

Also included in: 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions - Nonfiction ELA Units

FirstieGrammar First Grade Grammar Curriculum

Created by

FirstieGrammar CurriculumFirstieGrammar Curriculum is a 25 week or 125 academic day systematic curriculum. FirstieGrammar Curriculum covers 25 skill focuses and includes 5 simple “print and teach” lessons per skill. The lessons are scripted for ease of teaching. Each day the students also have exit tickets to match the skill. With the average school year being 30 weeks, this program offers flexibility that you can repeat the lessons more than once or rotate grammar with another pressing area

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Reading

Grades:

1st - 2nd

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

Creativity Challenges and Activities Morning Work, Brain Breaks, STEM Warm Up

Created by

Carly and Adam STEM Activities and Challenges

Unlock creativity in your classroom! Finish the Picture!The goal of creativity challenges is to help students think in different ways. The ability to generate unique thoughts and ideas is known as divergent thinking. When students are thinking outside the box it results in creative solutions. In a creativity challenge, students are presented with a problem that they have to solve using their creativity. Typically these challenges are short lasting anywhere from 3-10 minutes. By implementing thes

Subjects:

Arts & Music, Engineering, English Language Arts

Grades:

1st - 5th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Lesson

Also included in: Creativity Activities and Challenges MEGA Bundle Finish the Picture, STEM

Art Lessons & Art History | Art Lesson Plans for Elementary | Famous Artists

Created by

Whimsy Workshop Teaching

Your elementary students are going to be so excited to study history, culture, geography and literacy when they have the opportunity to view it through the lens of Art and Art History. These amazing Art History lessons provide a unique and interesting way to engage learners and integrate learning on multiple levels. Each Art History unit includes a student-friendly teacher script to read aloud to students. Questions are also included to support you in helping students to engage in discussions. T

Subjects:

Art History, Balanced Literacy, Visual Arts

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Printables, Lesson, Centers

Decodable Passages BUNDLE - Decodable Readers - aligned with Science of Reading

Created by

Lead in Literacy - Christina Mrs Winters Bliss

These decodable passages with comprehension questions are the perfect resource for beginning readers. Each passage is a phonics-based controlled text that contains target phonics skill words, previously taught phonics skill words, and irregular high-frequency words. The science of reading shows us that the connection between what our students learn in phonics and what they read is imperative for building a strong foundation in early reading.If you already own my decodable books resource, these

Subjects:

Phonics, Reading

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

RF.K.2

, RF.K.2d

, RF.K.3

, RF.K.3a

, RF.K.3b

...

Parts of Speech Activities, Worksheets, and Posters for Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives

Created by

Amy Lemons

Are you looking for activities to use when teaching about nouns, verbs, and adjectives? Your students will enjoy the variety of activities! This pack has anchor charts, printables, flap-books, writing crafts, and more! Here's a look at what is inside:1. Posters for Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives2. Adjectives Tell Us Anchor Chart Templates3. We Name Nouns Anchor Chart Templates4. Noun Chart Anchor Chart Templates5. Noun Town Anchor Chart Templates6. We Can Name Verbs Anchor Chart Templates7. Strong

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

1st - 2nd

Types:

Printables, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

Fairy Tales reader's theater, activities, writing, plays 1st grade 2nd grade

Created by

Jane Loretz

This fairy tales unit includes reader's theater scripts or plays and writing activities, great for 1st grade and 2nd grade students!This fairy tale unit will be engaging and fun for your students! Three different reader's theater scripts are included along with puppets and many activities, including writing. This fairy tale resource includes reader’s theater scripts, for...Goldilocks and the Three BearsThree Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk.The plays or scripts can be used many different way

Subjects:

Drama, English Language Arts, Reading

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Scripts, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.1.1

, RL.1.2

, RL.1.3

, RL.1.4

, RL.1.5

...

Second Grade Writing Workshop Curriculum (Writing Units Bundle)

Created by

Learning At The Primary Pond - Alison

Make it easy to plan your writing instruction with this yearlong bundle of narrative, opinion, and informational writing lessons for second grade! This complete second grade writing program also includes posters and visuals, assessments and writing rubrics, and grammar/language arts activities that will save you time.------You know that writing is an important part of literacy instruction. You want your students to become stronger writers - and actually WANT to write, too!But maybe you don't hav

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

2nd

Types:

Unit Plans, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

W.2.1

, W.2.2

, W.2.3

, W.2.5

, W.2.7

...

Interactive Read Aloud Lesson Plan, Reading Comprehension and Phonics Curriculum

Created by

Deanna Jump

Engaging Readers a reading comprehension and phonics curriculum for kindergarten, 1st or 2nd grade classrooms. These interactive read aloud lesson plans will guide you through your daily instruction in reading comprehension, responding to literature, sentence studies with mentor sentences, crafts and more! SUPER CHARGE your read aloud lesson plans with these print and teach activities! These No Prep Print and Go Lesson Plans will save your teaching life! SERIOUSLY!!! WHY TEACHERS LOVE THESE REA

Subjects:

Phonics, Reading, Writing

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Homeschool Curricula, Printables, Lesson

Interactive Read Aloud Lesson Plans for the Year!

Created by

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

These 70 simple to use, one page read aloud lesson plans and activities will transform your reading time into robust educational experiences! Each page includes an intro to prepare students for their learning and higher level thinking questions with the page numbers of where to stop in the text.Overview:• 72 one-page lessons easy to print and use (also great for subs!)• Each lesson has stopping points and discussion questions for skills taught throughout the year.• Each lesson focuses on a parti

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Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

CCSS:

...

Fables Reader's Theater, Lessons, Comprehension and Writing Activities

Created by

Jane Loretz

Fables This unit has everything you need to teach fables to your students. These Aesop fables come as reader’s theater scripts, this includes lessons, and comprehension worksheets that ask key ideas and questions and writing activities that meet many standards and important reading skills! I am super excited about this unit and I know you will be too! This Fables packet is loaded with great activities to do with your students. This packet includes 8 different Fables!Children love to read wit

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

Printables, Scripts, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.2.1

, RL.2.2

, RL.2.3

, RL.2.5

, RL.2.6

...

Also included in: Fables Reader's Theater, Lessons and Writing Activities BUNDLED

Writing Poetry in the Primary Grades

Created by

Creative Writing, Poetry, Writing

This poetry unit for first and second grade gets students writing both form and free-verse poems as they let their creativity fly!My students love to write poetry as a break from our traditional writing units. They really buy into the "no rules" aspect of free-verse poetry and when I show them different examples of poetry, they tend to take off and make many different writing pieces. I hope you and your students have as much fun as we do with this one!In this unit:Teacher Examples for each type

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Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Printables, Lesson, Centers

Also included in: First Grade Writing Workshop Units for the Year

Character Response, Problem and Solution RL.2.3 Story Elements 2nd Grade Reading

Created by

English Language Arts, Literature, Reading

This RL.2.3 Character Response (problem and solution) 2nd grade story element reading unit is full of standards-based lesson plans, graphic organizers, anchor charts, Lexile passages, and activities to use while you are teaching the standard RL2.3. If you are not teaching Common Core, then the unit is still valuable to use when teaching students how to describe story elements, focusing on describing challenges the characters faces in a story and how they respond to that challenge.Please check ou

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd

Types:

CCSS:

RL.2.3

Also included in: 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions - Fiction ELA Units

Main Topic & Supporting Details 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension RI.2.2 Main Idea

Created by

English Language Arts, Informational Text, Reading

This RI.2.2 Main Topic and Supporting Details 2nd grade nonfiction reading unit is full of standards-based lesson plans, Lexile reading passages, and other activities to use while you are teaching the standard RI2.2. If you are not teaching Common Core, then the unit is still valuable to use when teaching students how to find the main topic and support with key details in a text or a multi-paragraph text. Please check out the preview to see ALL that you're getting! In the RI.2.2 pack you will re

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd

Types:

English Language Arts, Informational Text, Writing

CCSS:

RI.2.2

Also included in: 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions - Nonfiction ELA Units

Writing Bundle: Personal Narrative, Informational, Opinion & Fiction 2ND GRADE

Created by

Not So Wimpy Teacher

This HUGE BUNDLE includes everything you need to teach, practice, and assess writing for the entire year! Students will complete four major units of study: personal narrative, informational reports, opinion essays, and fiction narratives.My second grade writing bundle includes 4 ready-to-use writing units to help you teach personal narratives, informational reports, opinion essays, and fiction narratives with ease. Each done-for-you unit contains detailed lesson plans, mentor texts, anchor chart

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd

Types:

Unit Plans, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

W.2.1

, W.2.2

, W.2.3

, W.2.5

, W.2.6

...

Phonics, Sight Word, and Reading Comprehension Intervention for Small Groups

Created by

The Primary Gal

Are you struggling to find a reading intervention that you can use in your resource room? Same, girl, same! I wanted one intervention that could target decoding, sight words, reading comprehension, reading fluency, writing, and grammar. My resource room students needed more than what I had to offer them. I’ve attended fancy trainings where they suggest spending 45 minutes per day on small group interventions that only targeted decoding skills. I couldn’t implement that in real life. I only had 3

Subjects:

Reading

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Activities, Lesson, Centers

All About Me Back to School Activities

Created by

Michelle Hudgeons

This All About Me Backpack can be used for back to school, first day of school, or first week of school. These make adorable back to school bulletin board and back to school hallway displays. These could also be used for Open House or Parent Night! Included are over 40 pages that could be used with PreK, Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd, or even 3rd! What's Included:CRAFTS-Backpack craft (black line)-Backpack Cover Template (with zipper)-Backpack Cover Template (without zipper)-Directions on how to

Subjects:

Back to School, English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

PreK - 3rd

Types:

Activities, Lesson

Also included in: Back to School Activities Bundle | Back to School Survival Kit

How to Writing Unit for Writer's Workshop

Created by

English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Expository

This procedural writing unit is perfect for the primary grades! It includes plenty of how to writing paper, prompts, activities, anchor charts and more!Take your students through the writer's workshop process of brainstorming, writing, editing/revising and publishing their very own how-to booklets!Looking for more writing resources?! You can find ALL my writing resources for a fraction of the price here in my FIRST GRADE WRITING - EVERGROWING BUNDLE!In this unit:- How I use this unit in my class

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

W.1.2

Also included in: First Grade Writing Workshop Units for the Year

Asking and Answering Questions RL.2.1 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension - RL2.1

Created by

English Language Arts, Literature, Reading

This RL.2.1 Asking and Answering Questions 2nd grade reading unit is full of standards-based lesson plans, graphic organizers, anchor charts, Lexile passages, and activities to use while you are teaching the standard RL2.1. If you are not teaching Common Core, then the unit is still valuable to use when teaching students to answer questions using the text and to ask themselves questions while reading. Please check out the preview to see ALL that you're getting! In the RL.2.1 pack you will receiv

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd

Types:

CCSS:

RL.2.1

Also included in: 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions - Fiction ELA Units

Recount 2nd Grade Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions, Fables Folktales

Created by

English Language Arts, Literature, Reading

This RL.2.2 Recount or Retell 2nd grade reading unit is packed full of standards-based lesson plans, Lexile passages, and activities to use while you are teaching the standard RL2.2. If you are not teaching Common Core, then the unit is still valuable to use when teachings students how to recount a story and find the moral of the text. It specifically focuses on fables and folktales.Please check out the preview to see ALL that you're getting! In the pack you will receive: 4 Mini Lessons8 Graphic

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd

Types: