A simple story with a fun art activity will help your students learn about the American flag! In this lesson, your students will practice the Pledge of Allegiance as well.

This lesson focuses on how punctuation affects reading fluency and comprehension using graphic organizers and sentence stems. Use this lesson as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Punctuation and Prosody lesson plan.

Your students will love classifying shapes into groups with this simple coloring and graphing lesson. It includes a bunch of fun worksheets and a song to keep young mathematicians engaged.

Children love animals! Use this lesson plan to teach your students about subtraction. Show them how the numbers go down as they cross out the animals. Their action makes the numbers reduce!

It is important for students to gain a better understanding of different ways to write numbers. In this lesson, your students will practice seeing numbers in various ways to help them comprehend the meaning of numbers.

In this lesson, students will practice making predictions while telling stories. Students will learn to use sequencing words like first, then, and last. This lesson can be used alone or with the Predict It lesson plan.

Dive into understanding place value by using place value disks to represent and compare numbers.

Dive deep into word problems with this lesson that teaches students to sketch base-ten blocks to add multiples of 10 and two-digit numbers. Use alone or with the lesson plan Let's Build It! Two-Digit Addition.

Who doesn't love peanut butter and jelly? This lesson has the potential to get a little messy as you reinforce the letter S!

In this lesson, students will retell stories and use symbols to highlight interesting parts. This lesson can be used alone or with the Readers Record Their Thinking lesson plan.

Addition and language practice go hand in hand in this lesson that uses The Very Hungry Caterpillar as an anchor text. Students practice counting on using a number line. This lesson can be used alone or alongside Math with Bears lesson.

In this lesson, students will explore the life cycle of a pumpkin plant. Then they will have the chance to grow their own!

Have your students seeing the rainbow with this lesson that has them explore the basic colors and practice their color identification.

Thinking about who, what, when, where, and why isn’t just for detectives! Students will practice gleaning important information from texts using these questions and a few other tools.

Play a fun and interesting game with your students in this lesson! Your students will copy words that you write to become more familiar with new vocabulary!

Ever wonder how to get your students to understand r-controlled vowels? Meet Bird, Star, and the Bossy R! These characters will help your students understand how to read and identify that pesky Bossy R through a story and sorting activity.

Use this lesson to introduce the concepts of capacity and volume with young learners. This hands on lesson can be used as a scaffolded pre-lesson to Capacity Comparison.

Have students “cook” the right blends to make a fantastic word dish with beginning, middle, and ending letter sounds. In this lesson, your students will practice recognizing common CVC words.

We know that exposure and repetition are very important when teaching students to recognize coins and identify their values. Use this hands-on lesson that can be used alongside Counting Coins or as an independent lesson!

Get your young scientists out of the classroom and into nature with this interactive science lesson.

With some help from The Little Red Hen, young readers will have fun enhancing their reading skills while learning about the value of hard work.

Help improve your class' reading comprehension and language development with this lesson that has them retell a familiar story in groups.

In this lesson, students will practice counting to 10. Using manipulatives, they will learn to pair numbers with the correct amount of objects.

Explore 3-D shapes with your students and help them identify and talk about the relevant attributes of three-dimensional shapes, all while using real-world examples! Use this as a stand-alone lesson or alongside the Shape Models lesson.

Discovery is exciting! In this hands-on lesson, your students will discover for themselves the rule behind the commutative property of addition.

Help your ELs look deeply at cause and effect at the sentence level. Using skits to reinforce comprehension, this lesson can be used as a support lesson for Learning About Cause and Effect! or a stand alone activity.

This lesson will make your students aware of their sense of sight. They will learn to not just look but to actually see the things around them.

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!

In this lesson, your students will practice their reading comprehension and vocabulary with the Pledge of Allegiance. They will reflect on the meaning of the pledge.

Give your second graders a glimpse into the life of an author as they give and receive feedback to revise their stories.