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2nd Grade Common Core Dictionary Skills Lesson Plans

As your learners identify physical and internal character traits, make sure they provide evidence. Use this as a stand alone lesson, or as a pre-lesson for the <a href="https://www.education.com/lesson-plan/fairy-tales-character-traits/" target="_blank">Fairy Tales: Character Traits</a> lesson.

character traits in fairy tales

Character Traits in Fairy Tales

In this literary lesson, students use fairy tales to practice identifying character traits. Students are challenged to justify their reasoning using text based support.

fairy tales character traits

Fairy Tales: Character Traits

Help your ELs practice identifying how their peers are feeling to develop emotions vocabulary and support comprehension. It can be used as a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson.

emotion charades

Emotion Charades

Teach your students to read time to the nearest five minutes by counting by fives! Use this lesson as a stand-alone support lesson for ELs or alongside Tricky Time Telling. 

telling time using skip counting

Telling Time Using Skip Counting

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

Traditional Literature: Story Mapping

When reading, we all encounter unknown words at times. But how do we figure them out? In this lesson, students learn how to become a “human dictionary” by using a variety of strategies to figure out the meaning of unknown words. 


human dictionary

Human Dictionary

This lesson will help students identify the author's point of view and purpose for writing an informational text.

examining authors purpose in a nonfiction text

Examining Author's Purpose in a Nonfiction Text

Through creative and engaging activities, your students will explore and learn about landforms. In this lesson, they will make their own mini dictionary of landforms.

all about landforms

All About Landforms

It's time to learn about time. In this hands-on lesson, students manipulate clock hands and jump across timelines in order to calculate the "distance" between different times and events.

elapseable

Elapseable

In this lesson, students will learn how to add a one-digit number to a two-digit number. This will help students build upon the skills needed for regrouping larger numbers.

adding it all up

Adding it All Up

Help your students learn the standard measures of length and foster critical thinking with this engaging lesson. Use alongside The Smaller They Come or as a stand-alone activity.

exploring metric units of length

Exploring Metric Units of Length

This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to become more comfortable with identifying and defining academic vocabulary words in a nonfiction text about a chicken's life cycle to support comprehension.

understanding academic vocabulary in a nonfiction text

Understanding Academic Vocabulary in a Nonfiction Text

Cats are the best! Pizza is better! My teacher rules! In Fact or Opinion: Part 1, your students will combine reading and writing to learn about the differences between facts and opinions and how those differences are communicated.

fact or opinion part 1

Fact or Opinion: Part 1

This support lesson provides students the opportunity to use two different tools to measure the length of familiar objects while introducing content specific vocabulary words. Use alone or alongside the lesson How Big is the Playground?

many measurement tools

Many Measurement Tools

Need a promotion? Then have your students participate in a writing lesson that will have them voting for you! Give students the opportunity to place teachers in the spotlight, as they persuade others why teachers make the best presidents.

my teacher for president

My Teacher for President!

Teach your second graders how to write a prediction and summarize book chapters in this exciting lesson!

summaries and predictions

Summaries and Predictions

Get out the measuring tape and head outside! In this lesson, students gather measurement data and build a model of the school playground. 

how big is the playground

How Big is the Playground?

Your students will enjoy reading the classic story “The Ugly Duckling,” written about a very lovable duck! This reading lesson also includes a fun partner activity to help your students practice comprehension.

read and retell a classic story

Read and Retell a Classic Story

Help students gain confidence in recognizing multiples of 10 as they critique a flawed response. Use as a stand-alone scaffolded EL support lesson or prior to teaching Big Spenders. 

multiples of 10

Multiples of 10

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills as they learn about the characters, setting, and plot of their favorite fiction books by creating a story map.

the elements of fiction creating a story map

The Elements of Fiction: Creating a Story Map

This lesson will provide your ELs with support as they learn about the key elements of fictional text, including characters, setting, and plot. Use as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

the key elements of fictional text

The Key Elements of Fictional Text

Students will practice mentally adding and subtracting 10 to multiples of 10 up to 100 by playing an all time favorite: BINGO! Use alone or alongside the lesson Subtracting From Multiples of 100. 

mental math bingo with multiples of 10

Mental Math Bingo with Multiples of 10

This tasty lesson will teach second graders about fractions using cookies. 

cookie fractions fun

Cookie Fractions Fun!

This lesson plan teaches kids about W.E.B. Du Bois through video and a short informational text. Students will compare/contrast their findings and create a poster in small groups showing what they learned.

learning about web du bois

Learning About W.E.B. Du Bois

Help your students learn new vocabulary in this hands-on lesson. Your class will learn new words by adding a silent e on the end of familiar CVC words.


silent e springing up

Silent E Springing Up

Teach your students about picture walks as a strategy to understand the author's purpose in a fictional text. This lesson can be used as a stand-alone lesson or as support for the Examining Author's Purpose in a Fictional Text lesson.

using picture walks to examine purpose

Using Picture Walks to Examine Purpose

This lesson provides students with the opportunity to compare and contrast two athletes who have been instrumental in changing the world of women's sports.

lets compare and contrast nonfiction texts

Let's Compare and Contrast Nonfiction Texts!

Do your students struggle with word choices? In this lesson, students will learn strategies for choosing vivid words for their poetry. Although the “persona poem” is used as a model, any type of poetry can be used!

painting poetic pictures with words

Painting Poetic Pictures with Words!

Use this lesson to teach students about the importance of reading fluently to support comprehension. Use as a stand alone activity or a support for the Increasing Reading Stamina and Comprehension lesson plan.

reading fluently to support comprehension

Reading Fluently to Support Comprehension

This lesson will help students explore using a dictionary to figure out tricky words with suffixes. Use as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Understanding Academic Vocabulary in a Nonfiction Text lesson.

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