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How can we write a silly story?
Second graders use the writing process and create a silly story. In this silly story lesson, 2nd graders will review person, event and setting and complete a chart for each. Students will put a person, event and setting in an envelope...
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Write Me a Story
Second graders use the writing process and submit a story to www.kids.com. In this story writing lesson, 2nd graders choose a topic for a story contest. Students develop their stories. Students complete a her prewriting organizer....
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Interactive Read Aloud
Learning how to deliver good literacy instruction is key to becoming a successful teacher. This resource isn't so much a lesson as it is a guide to leading children in an interactive read-aloud session to increase fluency, comprehension,...
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Lesson: Paul Chan: Alternumeric Fonts
Learning to analyze language, symbols, and codes is part of becoming a deep and critical thinker. Young analysts consider their ability to see hidden messages as they analyze the work of Paul Chan. There are two fully developed...
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Acoustic Poems
Students explore acrostic poems. In this interactive poetry lesson, students visit the ReadWriteThink.org website to view characteristics and samples of acrostic poems. Students develop acrostic poems by using the interactive site.
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Who's Who at Our School
Students interview staff members at their elementary school in order to get to know them better. They write interview questions, conduct an interview, write a paragraph about the staff member, and take digital pictures of that person....
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Nasreddin and the Smell of Soup
In this online interactive story building worksheet, students recognize the sequence of events. Students click on the sentence that will come next in the order of story events. Students complete all sentences in order to correctly finish...
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The Weekly News, Part 1
Fifth graders explore things that happen in their schools. For this journalism lesson, 5th graders use the writing process to prioritize their collected information. Students write a weekly article for a classroom news report.
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Simple Present: Wh- Questions
In this writing questions worksheet, students read 5 illustrated sentences. Students change each sentence into a "wh" question using the question word in brackets. This is an online interactive worksheet.
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Making Questions 3
In this creating questions worksheet, students read statements and create interrogative sentences which ask either yes/no or who/whom questions about the words in bold print. Students write 14 online/interactive answers.
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Regular Comparatives and Superlatives 2
In this online/interactive sentence completion worksheet, students look at and use a picture of three men to complete the sentences with regular comparatives and superlatives using the base words in parenthesis. Students write 10 answers.
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The Interactive Read-Aloud
Students listen to a variety of books about immigration themes. They discuss immigration and some of the ideas presented in the books. They complete a variety of immigration-themed art projects.
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Feelings
Students complete grammar and story writing activities with a theme of feelings. In this grammar and writing lesson, students discuss feelings and complete grammar revision for the future tense of verbs. Students read a story and then...
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A Special Christmas Present
In this online/interactive building a story worksheet, students choose sentences to add to the Christmas story. Students write 1 story.
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Simple Past: Negatives
In this online/interactive past tense negative verbs worksheet, students read sentences with present tense verbs, change the verbs to negative past tenses, check, show a letter, and show answers. Students write 5 answers.
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Where in the World is Flat Stanley?
Second graders analyze the proper form of a friendly letter and send flat Stanley letters all over the United States. In this letter writing activity, 2nd graders read the book Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown and create their own Flat...
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Verb Forms: Second Conditional
Which verb tenses can you use when writing with the conditional tense? Clear up the common mistakes with this second conditional worksheet. Young writers choose the correct verb tense to complete a sentence. They choose from four...
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Stator limbatus Study, Part 1
Second graders experiment identifying beetle emergence and exit holes in seeds, count them, look for beetle eggs with a magnifier and count how many beetle eggs they find. They then graph on a data sheet the findings from their research.
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Our City
Second graders familiarize themselves with the town they live in by practicing their imagination, library research and writing skills.
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Plant a Seed of Kindness
Students perform acts of kindness. In this character instructional activity, students cut out seed shapes and write down their acts of kindness on them. Students place the seeds on a bulletin board where they "plant" them below the...
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Newton's Laws and Rocketball
Students investigate Newton's Three Laws. In this Newton's Law activity, students write the laws in their own words. Students then do an experiment with a ping pong ball. Students drop the ball from a set distance and record their...
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Great Expectations Character Adoption
Learners write a detailed character analysis by adopting a character from the novel, Great Expectations, and become an authority on the character.
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Shadow Play
Young scholars investigate shadows. In this shadows and technology lesson, students listen to the book Ten Grouchy Groundhogs or Gretchen Groundhog, It's Your Day! and discuss how shadows are made. Young scholars match objects to their...
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Vocabulary Words Second Grade
In this completing sentences worksheet, 2nd graders use context clues and the words in the word bank to fill in the blanks to make the sentences make sense. Students write six answers.