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Teach your class about the genre of traditional literature, made up of stories from around the world that have been told for generations. In this lesson, students will read fairy tales and compare story elements in each piece of literature.

Elements of Traditional Literature

This literature lesson guides kids towards a deeper understanding of second grade texts through an exploration of character, setting, and plot. Kids will be challenged to answer the who, what, where, when and why of a story, in addition to determining the story's message. Two versions of the same story will be presented in order for second graders to see story elements in action.

Literature 1

Students will learn how to identify story elements and create a short and sweet summary. They will fill out a graphic organizer and solidify their understanding by creating illustrations to show major plot points that they find themselves!

Traditional Literature: Story Mapping

Help your second graders hone their comparing and contrasting skills with this reading lesson using The Rough Face Girl by Rafe Martin. This version on the Cinderella story is a Common Core recommended text.

Comparing and Contrasting Cinderella Stories

This engaging lesson teaches students about the famous author Faith Ringgold. Students will explore two pieces of literature, comparing and contrasting story elements, then write opinion pieces to illustrate which book they liked best.

Author Study: Faith Ringgold

Reach for the stars with this interactive story about the solar system that works on science and literature learning at the same time.

All About Our Solar System: Level K

This is the beginning of a story by The Brothers Grimm. Get together with your child to enjoy some classic literature with these beautiful story pages.

Briar Rose

Use this reading strategy to help your students along in their reading comprehension skills. Students will respond to literature with Stop & Jots, with or without sticky notes.

Sticky Note Stop and Jot

This lesson will have your students learn to compare and contrast using both a classic fairy tale and a fractured versions of a fairy tale. 

Comparing and Contrasting Short Stories

Then what happened? In this activity, students will choose stop and jot sticky notes from different parts of the story to practice their sequencing and summarizing skills as they respond to questions about the literature.

Stop & Jot Sticky Note Sequencing

Help your kindergarten students learn about comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts using this helpful Venn diagram.

Nonfiction Compare & Contrast

Readers practice comparing and contrasting characters in works of fiction with this versatile graphic organizer.

Character Comparison Graphic Organizer

What has a herd of cows, a float of crocodiles, and everything in between? This quirky reading lesson, that's what. Your students will love learning about collective nouns through music, literature, writing, and arts and crafts.

Collective Noun Farm

This colorful lesson combines reading comprehension with cultural awareness. Students will certainly have a blast comparing and contrasting Cinderella stories from two different countries.

Fairy Tales from Around the World: Cinderella

This exciting lesson plan will introduce your second grade students to two different versions of the well-loved Cinderella story while also teaching them about making inferences and comparing and contrasting stories.

They Sound Alike

This lesson features the beloved story of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. After working through some rhyming challenges and completing Venn diagrams, your students are sure to improve their reading comprehension skills.

Green Eggs and Ham: Comparing and Contrasting Text to Media

Your students will learn academic vocabulary and use a graphic organizer to compare and contrast two short stories. Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as an introduction to the Comparing and Contrasting Short Stories lesson plan.

Learn to Compare and Contrast

Color in a scene from Treasure Island, a book that's been thrilling young readers for over 100 years.

Scenes from Treasure Island, #13

Bears Reading Comprehension

Teach kids about the importance of story perspective with this interactive version of Jack and the Beanstalk, retold from the Giant's point of view.

Ogg and the Beanstalk

Here's Peter Rabbit making his escape from Mr. McGregor's garden.

Color Peter Rabbit

Help your child get more comfortable with rhyme schemes with The Bear in Despair by Amanda Bray Cody.

Teaching Rhyming with The Bear in Despair

A check-in activity that will allow you to take stock of your students' reading material. This worksheet will provide invaluable information!

Bookshelf Hunt

Dr. John Dolittle works well with animals - bring the story to life with this silly coloring page.

Color Doctor Dolittle!

Here is a picture of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, a mischievous kid from a Missouri town.

Color Tom Sawyer

"All for one and one for all," say the Three Musketeers. Introduce your child to the story with this fun coloring page!

Three Musketeers Coloring Page

Complete this picture of the superstar sleuth by sketching him yourself! This Sherlock Holmes drawing page lets your child express his imaginative mind.

Sherlock Holmes Drawing Page

This pirate coloring page features the infamous Captain Hook, the surliest, saltiest captain in Neverland!

Pirate Coloring Page: Captain Hook

This picture of Neverland is missing one thing: the leader of the Lost Boys, Peter Pan!

Can You Draw Peter Pan?

Huck Finn, famous for his sharp observations of the world around him, seems to be taking a break from being so perceptive.

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