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Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Figurative Language

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which learners use the book Once in a Blue Moon by Nicola Morgan to learn to identify and interpret the meaning of figurative language in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct...
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Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Personification

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use the book The Runaway Tortilla by Eric A. Kimmel to learn to identify and understand the use of personification in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Idioms

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students use the book More Parts by Tedd Arnold to learn to identify and understand the use of idiom in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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Read Works: Plot 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to identify problems and solutions in fiction text and to retell a story's problem and solution in sequence. Students learn to identify...
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Read Works: Sequence 2nd Grade Unit: Flashback Sequence

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps students identify the sequence of events in a story with flashback. The lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and utilizes the book...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Prefixes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students learn to use the meanings of prefixes to help determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson includes directions for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Dictionary

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a lesson in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The lesson utilizes the book The Mitten by Jan Brett and includes directions for...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Character

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to recognize a character's personality traits, predict a character's actions, and describe a character using rich language. Lessons are based on...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Cause and Effect

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to identify effects, causes, and the relationship between them. Lessons are based on the books Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes, Why Do You Cry?:...
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Read Works: Classify and Categorize 2nd Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to classify and categorize items, characters, and information. The third instructional activity is based on the book Splish! Splash! Animal...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Figurative Language

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify and explain the meaning of figurative language including personification and idiom. Lessons are based on the books Once in a Blue...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Sequence

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to retell and summarize a fiction story told in chronological order and a story told with flashback. Lessons are based on the books First Day...
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Read Works: K 2: Two Lesson Unit: Pronoun Reference

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to identify pronouns and their antecedents and to replace nouns with a correct pronoun. Lessons are based on the book Are You My Mother? by P.D....
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Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Setting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to use context clues to identify the setting and changes within it. Lessons are based on the books Bigmama's by Donald Crews and The Stories Julian...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Theme

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to use story elements to identify theme and to match a given theme to a story. Lessons are based on the book Aesop's Fables by Jerry Pinkney....
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Read Works: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Vocabulary in Context

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to develop students' vocabulary skills including understanding prefixes, using context clues, and using a glossary and a dictionary. Lessons are based on the books...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Voice

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to describe the author's voice in two poems and compare voice in four short works. Includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Order of Events

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars learn about putting events in order with a short text. Then they complete guided and independent sequencing activities with The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Short texts and...
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Read Works: Compare and Contrast Kindergarten Unit: Identifying What Is Different

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students learn to recognize differences between two pictures. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included. Pictures for the lesson are available to...
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Read Works:classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Sorting to Predetermined Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big World Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included....
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Read Works: Classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Creating Groups and Sorting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan using the book My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into categories they create for themselves. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Author's Purpose

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify author's purpose including to entertain, to inform, and to persuade. Lessons are based on the books The Adventures of Taxi Dog by...
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Read Works: Genre Studies: Biography Kindergarten Unit: Real People

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles to teach students that biographies are about real people and how to identify information about these people. Ideas for direct teaching, guided...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Context Clues

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a activity in which students learn to use context clues in surrounding sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The activity utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor...

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