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1st and 2nd Grade Lesson Plans : Page 27

Guide students through the challenging task of unpacking the main idea of a text.

What’s This All About? Unpacking the Main Idea!

Use this lesson to review three-digit addition strategies including base-ten drawings, number lines, and the standard algorithm.

Three-Digit Addition Strategies Review

Students will have the time of their lives, as they represent their school day on a timeline. From the moment they wake up to the end of school, students will enjoy communicating their day in chronological order.

Timeline of My Life

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

Create a Nonfiction Text Summary

Your students will hone their creative writing skills as they design their own fictional characters. Use this lesson to introduce the concept of using key details and descriptive language during the prewriting phase of storytelling.

Writing: Create a Character

Students begin this letter-writing journey with a dog whose opinion is persuasively portrayed, and by learning that opinion is not fact. Activities include partner role-play and the chance for students to write a persuasive opinion letter of their own.

Letter Writes: Persuasive Opinion Writing

Second graders know about plural nouns, but things get trickier when they are introduced to irregular forms. In this lesson, students will receive an introduction to irregular plural nouns. 

Let’s Get Irregular

Kids will be thrilled to fill their short "i" vocabulary banks using this lesson plan. It includes worksheets and oral activities to keep young learners engaged.

Fun with the Short I Sound

In this lesson, students collaborate to create a class-wide behavior contract. With your guidance, your class will develop and implement their own set of classroom rules.

Creating a Behavior Contract in Your Classroom

In this lesson, students will practice defining words by making their own vocabulary cards. This lesson plan can be used alone or with the Mini Dictionaries lesson plan.

Dictionaries & Definitions

What’s makes r-controlled syllables special? Use this lesson to help your students practice identifying, reading, and spelling words that contain r-controlled syllables.

Bossy R Meets the Syllable

Help your students develop their creative writing skills with this lesson, which features the Adjective-Adjective-Noun strategy. Young writers will be inspired to show, not tell.

Show Me the Adjectives!

Students will practice reading and spelling grade level sight words through a fast-paced game of tic-tac-toe.

Sight Word Games

Where can we find United States symbols? In this lesson, students will not only learn about the familiar United States symbols, but also create a flag full of symbols that represents who they are and what they enjoy.

Symbols, Symbols All Around!

Use a playful theater activity to teach your first graders how to change a verb from the present to the past tense.

Learning About Words: Past Tense

ELs will gain valuable practice learning about text features as they practice close reading and communication skills during a nonfiction picture walk. Use on its own or as a support for the Classifying Nonfiction Text Features lesson plan. 

Going on a Nonfiction Picture Walk

Speaking with kindness and care can be easier with the THINK method! In this lesson, students will identify questions to ask themselves when speaking to others. They will also practice mindful listening with a partner.

THINK for Mindful Speaking

Use a letter writing activity to teach your first graders about the three different ending sounds of past tense verbs.

Learning About Words: The Sounds of -ed

We don’t want arguments in the classroom, right? Actually arguments aren’t all bad! In this lesson, students learn to write argumentative essays. 

It’s Okay to Argue

Combine the power of poetry and storytelling to teach your first graders about sensory language in this exciting lesson. 

Sensory Language: Writing a Five Senses Poem

Get your students to be builders and create structures with a variety of materials. Students will have the opportunity to be creative, cooperate in groups, and discuss their experience.


Structure Building Challenge

Read aloud a hilarious diary written from the perspective of a spider, then use the story to launch your first grade journal writing. Students will love creating their very own writing journals.

First Grade Journals

Practice reading new words with your students as they learn about long vowel word families while creating their own mini word book.

Make an -ight Book

Your students will solve and create shape riddles while practicing their knowledge of shape attributes.

Geometry Puzzles

Contractions can be tricky, but they don't have to be! Through this lesson, students will gain hands-on experience putting words together to form common contractions. 

Contraction Match-Up

Sometimes the best way to learn about something is to teach it! This lesson helps second graders become the experts on odd and even numbers as they prepare to teach younger students. 

Teach About Odd & Even Numbers

Write on! Give your students the chance to express themselves with this engaging lesson. Your class will write expressive opinion essays to develop cognitive awareness.

Opinion Writers!

Get ready to teach students strategies for understanding new words! Students will practice strategies to read new words in nonfiction books. This lesson can be used alone or with the New Words, New Ideas: Reading Nonfiction lesson plan.

Figuring Out Tricky Words

Everyone loves an intriguing introduction! Help your second graders hook their readers as they practice writing new and improved introductions to well-loved fictional stories in this fun writing lesson.

Capture That Reader!

Students will be jumping with joy after this lesson that helps them practice their subtraction skills with physical activity.

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