Students integrate structure and dialogue skills to explain how a character's words reveal their perspective at different points in a story. Uses 'The Hare and the Tortoise' as the anchor text.
A series of hands-on phonics station activities focused on mastering syllable types, including open, closed, silent e, and vowel teams through sorting and matching.
A comprehensive writing station for second graders featuring creative prompts, grammar practice, and vocabulary support. Designed for 15-20 minute independent rotations.
A set of three 15-minute reading station activities with a "Detective Agency" theme, covering comprehension, writing, and phonics for 2nd-grade students.
A lesson focused on helping students manage the frustration of being told 'not right now' for preferred activities, specifically drawing. It uses a social story and visual supports to teach waiting strategies.
A comprehensive support kit for students who seek safety under their desks, featuring a social story, a behavior intervention plan template, and visual communication tools.
Focuses on applying phonetic knowledge to written expression. Students practice spelling complex words using phonemic awareness and decoding strategies in their writing.
Students learn to identify and create complete sentences by understanding the 'Who' (Subject) and the 'Do' (Predicate). Includes practice with capitalization and punctuation.
A highly visual, hands-on lesson designed for non-verbal students to master sorting by color and size through physical manipulation and AAC support. This lesson minimizes the need for writing and maximizes visual engagement.
This lesson focuses on Ohio Grade 2 standards for written expression, specifically teaching students to produce, expand, and rearrange simple and compound sentences while maintaining correct mechanics.
A lesson focused on Ohio Grade 2 Language standards, specifically L.2.1f, teaching students to produce, expand, and rearrange simple and compound sentences through a fun 'Sentence Architect' construction theme.
A phonics-focused lesson designed to master Ohio Grade 2 standards for reading digraphs and CVCE words. Students act as 'Decoding Detectives' to identify and solve word mysteries using their phonics skills.
A lesson focused on identifying and dividing multisyllabic words with closed syllables using the VC/CV pattern. Students will learn to 'chop' words like 'napkin' and 'cactus' to decode them accurately.
An introductory lesson for second graders to identify and understand closed syllables through interactive slides and hands-on practice.
An engaging introductory lesson on short vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u) using CVC words, visual cues, and interactive practice for 1st grade students.
This lesson introduces and reinforces positive classroom behaviors for second graders through a social story and interactive discussion. It focuses on personal space, following routines, and effective communication strategies.
Final review and assessment of Step 4.2 skills, including spelling dictation and sentence reading.
Fluency-focused activities and games to reinforce automaticity in reading VCe multisyllabic words.
Focus on complex 4.2 words containing blends and digraphs. Students practice reading and spelling words like 'stampede' and 'shrine'.
Introduction to two-syllable words containing one closed syllable and one VCe syllable. Students practice identifying syllable types and dividing words correctly.