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

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Summaries and Predictions

Students will develop pre-writing confidence by learning how to approach unfamiliar opinion writing prompts. Writers will generate a topic sentence and  flush out supporting information.

ondemand prewriting

On-Demand Prewriting

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

They Sound Alike

Interjections, one of the eight parts of speech, can be the most exciting. They help students interject some fun and drama into their writing and conversations. In this lesson, they'll brainstorm how to use interjections in their sentences.

parts of speech interjections

Parts of Speech: Interjections

Prepare your students to analyze and respond to literature by practicing five types of responses: predictions, questions, clarification, connections, and opinions.

five ways to respond to literature

Five Ways to Respond to Literature

Your kids will love learning about setting, characters and events as they listen to a classic tale and play a simple game. This lesson helps students improve their reading comprehension skills while they have fun.

setting characters and events in goldilocks and the three bears

Setting, Characters, and Events in Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Combine letter recognition and movement with this reading-focused lesson! In this lesson, students will reenact the story "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" while learning to recognize lowercase letters.

chicka chicka boom boom order in the room

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom: Order in the Room!

Help your students recognize when they are writing simple, boring  sentences. This lesson will teach them to combine similar elements and improve the flow of sentences.

sentence combining subjects and verbs

Sentence Combining: Subjects and Verbs

Get your students excited about possessive pronouns with this fun lost-and-found inspired lesson. By talking about items that belong to themselves and their classmates, kids be gain a better understanding of denoting possession.


possessive pronouns

Possessive Pronouns

The energizer bunny went to jail. He was charged with battery. Get it? Your students will understand after this lesson! Use this lesson to give your students tools to understand and create Easter puns.

everybunnys easter puns

Everybunny’s Easter Puns

Reading can be a rollercoaster with its ups and downs! Use this lesson that features a rollercoaster-themed story map to teach your students about story structure and how to use a graphic organizer to visualize it.

story structure rollercoaster

Story Structure Rollercoaster

Students will continue their informational writing project by creating an essay outline prior to drafting.

informational essay creating an outline for a draft

Informational Essay: Creating an Outline for a Draft

Boost your students’ writing with instruction on book titles! A title should be catchy and inclusive of the content of a book. Use this lesson to teach your students the art and mechanics of writing terrific titles.

totally terrific titles

Totally Terrific Titles

Do your students have strong opinions? This lesson, which features a bunch of fun essay-building exercises, provides an outlet for young writers to express their opinions.

tell me about it writing opinion essays

Tell Me About It! Writing Opinion Essays

Give your students an introduction to types of story hooks as they compose original story beginnings the help of a word bank. This can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson for the Capture That Reader! lesson plan.

story hooks

Story Hooks

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

By fourth grade, most students are familiar with story elements such as setting, characters, and plot. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the elements in two stories with similar themes. 

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Compare and Contrast Story Elements

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.

building fluency with punctuation

Building Fluency with Punctuation

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

Rad (awesome, brave, radical, cool) women have been around since the beginning of time, but so often their stories are overlooked. Take your students on a journey through history with this lesson that uses the book *Rad Women Worldwide* by Kate Schatz. The lesson exposes students to the stories of 40 rad women from around the world and throughout various time periods, who challenged and changed the world. Students will read the profiles of a few of the women before analyzing their journeys and accomplishments using graphic organizers. 

learning about influentual women worldwide

Learning About Influentual Women Worldwide

This lesson allows students to nourish their inner writers and artists by creating catchy sentences and decorating alphabet letters.

classroom animal alphabet book

Classroom Animal Alphabet Book

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

By fourth grade, most students are familiar with story elements such as setting, characters, and plot. In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the elements in two stories with similar themes.

compare and contrast short stories

Compare and Contrast Short Stories

What adventures can a reindeer, candy cane, and a snowman embark on? Let’s find out! In this writing lesson, students will write a Christmas-themed narrative incorporating characters, setting, problem, and solution. 


christmas adventure writing

Christmas Adventure Writing

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a 17th century writer and philosopher who today is considered one of the first documented feminists and advocates for women’s education. In this lesson, students will read two nonfiction texts about Sor Juana and discuss her life and accomplishments before writing an opinion piece about her. 

writing opinions about sor juana ines de la cruz

Writing Opinions About Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Your students will learn all about what makes a fictional character special when they become character detectives! Use this lesson to introduce the concept of using key details from a text to gather information.

character detectives

Character Detectives

In this support lesson, your students will use sentence frames and short texts to make inferences about a character's feelings in order to understand their perspective.

making inferences about feelings

Making Inferences About Feelings

Use this lesson to help your ELs make inferences with support. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Inferences in Fictional Texts.

inferences with sentence stems

Inferences with Sentence Stems

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

In this support lesson, students will use sentence frames and short texts to make inferences about a character in order to understand their motivation. Use this as a support for the lesson What's the Theme? Analyzing Character Motivation.

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