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Year 2 Reading & writing Resources

Give your young child’s language skills a boost with our collection of year 2 reading and writing English learner (EL) resources. Designed specifically for year 2 English learners, our lessons are full of vocabulary, glossaries, and other resources to ensure students of any skill level remain engaged as they learn to read and dissect fiction and nonfiction and build their writing and grammar skills.

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Year 2

English Learner (EL)

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Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How?

Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How?

Do you have students who are constantly asking what, who, where, why, how, and when? It's your turn to ask now! Have them read various stories and ask them to answer these questions in this lesson.

Year 2

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Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Your students are probably used to answering questions. Give them a chance to ask their own with this imaginative lesson on reading comprehension and the ways one can use who, what, when, where, and why.

Year 2

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Mad, Sad, Happy, Glad: Character Feelings

Mad, Sad, Happy, Glad: Character Feelings

Your students will have loads of fun discovering new words and using them describe the feelings of different characters. Featuring No, David! by David Shannon, this lesson will help kids practise reading and writing.

Year 2

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Reading Pictures

Reading Pictures

In this lesson, students will practise "reading" pictures. They will look at the details in pictures in order to make predictions about what happens in a text. This lesson can be used alone or with the Predicting Pictures lesson plan.

Year 2

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How to Analyze a Character

How to Analyze a Character

Your students become masters at character analysis as they learn how to describe fictional characters by identifying traits and providing concrete evidence to support their thinking.

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Learning New Vocabulary

Learning New Vocabulary

In this lesson, students will identify new vocabulary words from a text read aloud. After selecting new words, they will create their own picture dictionaries to learn the meaning of each new word.

Year one

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Predict It

Engage students in reading grade-level texts by making and testing predictions. Your students will be excited to read on to find out if their predictions are correct!

Year 2

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More Than One

Let’s get reading and writing! In this lesson, students learn to form and recognise regular plural nouns. But the fun doesn’t stop there. Students will work with counting collections to write sentences about the objects they count.

Year one

Reading & writing

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

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

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.

Year one

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All About Me: Character Traits

All About Me: Character Traits

It's all about me! In this lesson, students will identify character traits in a story and decide if they have the same traits. This lesson incorporates literature, writing, comparison skills, and social skills.

Year 2

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Draw Beginning, Middle, and End

Draw Beginning, Middle, and End

In this lesson, students will retell stories by drawing and talking about what happens at the beginning, middle, and end. This lesson can be used alone or with the Goldilocks and Beginning, Middle, and End lesson plan.

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Key Details

Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Key Details

In this lesson, your students will explore reading with technology with "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Students will use a graphic organizer to reflect on this story.

Year one

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What's in a Text Feature?

What's in a Text Feature?

Ever wondered how to explain what an index is to a 6 year old? Look no further! Use this engaging lesson to help your students become text feature experts.

Year 2

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Finding the Key Details

Finding the Key Details

Introduce students to fictional story elements with a book by year two favorite, Mo Willems! This lesson plan can be used alone or with the Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Key Details lesson plan.

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Use Your Mind and Visualize!

Use Your Mind and Visualize!

Help students learn the crucial reading strategy of visualizing. Visualizing is a key component of learning to infer from a text. Kids will love using their imaginations to draw pictures of their visualizations.

Year one

Reading & writing

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Fun with Sight Words

Fun with Sight Words

Use this fun games-inspired lesson plan to review or preview sight words with your ELs as they practise reading and spelling high frequency words. This can be used as a stand-alone or support lesson for the Sight Word Bingo lesson plan.

Year 2

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Sticky Reading Comprehension

Sticky Reading Comprehension

Sometimes students struggle with comprehension, and it can be difficult to pinpoint where the breakdown occurs. Help your students make visual summaries on sticky notes in this lesson!

Year 2

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Reading Picture Clues

Reading Picture Clues

In this lesson, students will learn how to get information from pictures in texts. They will describe pictures with a partner and see if their descriptions match the words in the text. This lesson can be used alone or as a support lesson.

Year 2

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Questions for Comprehension

Questions for Comprehension

Good readers ask questions before, during, and after reading. This lesson, which incorporates two wonderful activities and some practise with the 5 Ws, is sure to get your students ready to dive into literature.

Year one

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Blending Words

In this fun blending lesson, students will get a chance to read and spell grade level words. This can be used as a stand-alone lesson or support for the Cooking Up Blends lesson plan.

Year one

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Letter Roll Reading: Blending Sounds

Letter Roll Reading: Blending Sounds

Read and roll! This interactive game can be used as an engaging activity or an assessment tool that allows you to easily monitor your students’ ability to blend phonemes together to create words.

Year one

Reading & writing

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Sensory Language: Writing a Five Senses Poem

Sensory Language: Writing a Five Senses Poem

Combine the power of poetry and storytelling to teach your first graders about sensory language in this exciting lesson.

Year 2

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The Paper Bag Princess

The Paper Bag Princess

In this lesson, students will practise listening comprehension skills after reading “The Paper Bag Princess” together as a class. Afterward, students will role-play, make inferences, and use summarization to strengthen literacy skills.

Year 2

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How to Find the Main Idea

How to Find the Main Idea

Get ready to develop important comprehension skills! Students will read different informational passages and learn to identify the main idea. They will then use their knowledge of main ideas to write their own informational passages.

Year 2

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Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Provide students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. Use as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Finding the Main Idea and Details in a Nonfiction Text lesson.

Year 2

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