A diverse set of Grade 2 lessons covering science (Human Evolution) and phonics (Broad Vowel O), designed with high-contrast visuals and interactive student activities.
A comprehensive 9-day personal narrative writing unit for second graders themed around 'What I Did This Summer'. It guides students step-by-step through the narrative progression ladder: focusing a seed story, sequencing with temporal transitions, elaborating actions/feelings, and crafting reflective closure.
A 5-day ELA unit based on Clark the Shark, focusing on AZ ELA Standard 2.RL.1. Students act as Shark Detectives to ask and answer Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How questions using direct evidence from the text to study character behavior and school rules.
A 12-day personal narrative writing sequence for 2nd grade. Students learn to focus on 'seed' stories, structure their writing with strong beginnings, middles, and ends, use sensory details, and bring characters to life with feelings and dialogue before crafting their final published memory.
An interactive 4-day ELA reading comprehension unit for 2nd graders analyzing 'The Great Puppy Invasion'. Students act as detectives to investigate how the neat and tidy citizens of Barkerville respond to the sudden, chaotic, and cuddly arrival of hundreds of puppies.
A 5-day ELA unit for 2nd grade focusing on Arizona ELA Standard 2.RL.3. Students analyze how the main character in Alastair Heim's 'Picture Day Perfection' plans chaos, faces challenges, and responds to a surprise ending, tracking character growth and perspective shifts.
A 5-day ELA sequence focusing on Arizona ELA standard 2.RL.3, where second-grade students analyze how characters respond to major events and challenges using Judith Viorst's classic mentor text, 'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day'.
A comprehensive color-coded sentence-building curriculum that scales tactile, Lego-style grammar modeling across elementary grade levels to make parts of speech and sentence structure completely visual.
A series of early elementary foundational math and reading lessons designed for 1st and 2nd grade classrooms.
A 5-part literacy unit based on the picture book Drawn Together by Minh Lê and Dan Santat. It is designed for Year 2 students working at a Year 1 level, integrating visual comprehension of Thai cultural elements with structured sentence building (GPV) and guided narrative text creation.
A 5-lesson Stage 1 English unit based on Minh Lê and Dan Santat's 'Drawn Together' exploring visual literacy, GPV, and text creation.
A 5-lesson learning sequence based on 'Mallee Sky' for Year 2 students working at a Year 1 level, featuring explicit 'I Do, We Do, You Do' instruction, 10-minute post-reading grammar/punctuation/vocabulary focus, and heavily scaffolded sentence writing.
A foundational early literacy sequence helping kindergarteners master letter-sound correspondences, segmenting, blending, and reading simple CVC and high-frequency words through multi-sensory activities.
A foundational literacy sequence designed for grades K-2, using engaging, simple rhyming poems to reinforce key reading skills, seasonal themes like Spring, phonics word families, and sight words. Students build fluency, word recognition, and reading comprehension through interactive reading, illustrating, and text-based questions.
A comprehensive 5-lesson writing unit based on Jodi Toering's mentor text 'Mallee Sky', carefully modified for Year 2 students performing at a Year 1 level, featuring multi-tiered scaffolds for EALD and early years learners.
A fast-paced, high-impact 5-lesson NSW Year 2 English writing unit based exclusively on 'The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name' by Sandhya Parappukkaran. Students develop skills in summarising, figurative language, visual/multimodal features, compound sentences, wordplay, and action verbs, culminating in a reflective first-person diary entry.
A five-day phonics adventure for second-grade students to master spelling, decoding, and reading sentences and passages with two-syllable Vowel-Consonant-e (VCE) and Consonant-le (CLE) words, including pre- and post-tests.