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Who, When, What, Where, Why, and How?
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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
Reading & writing
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Who? What? When? Where? Why?
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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
Reading & writing
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Reading Pictures
Lesson plan
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
Reading & writing
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Mad, Sad, Happy, Glad: Character Feelings
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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
Reading & writing
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Learning New Vocabulary
Lesson plan
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
Reading & writing
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Setting, Characters, and Events in Goldilocks and the Three Bears
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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
Reading & writing
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How to Analyze a Character
Lesson plan
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.
Year 2
Reading & writing
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More Than One
Lesson plan
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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Questions for Comprehension
Lesson plan
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
Reading & writing
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What's in a Text Feature?
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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
Reading & writing
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Sticky Reading Comprehension
Lesson plan
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
Reading & writing
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All About Me: Character Traits
Lesson plan
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
Reading & writing
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Predict It
Lesson plan
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
Reading & writing
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Blending Words
Lesson plan
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
Reading & writing
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Key Details
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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
Reading & writing
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Rhyming with Sam I Am
Lesson plan
Rhyming with Sam I Am
"Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss is a favorite for children and grown-ups alike. In this lesson, your students will focus on Dr. Seuss's use of rhyming words in the story.
Year one
Reading & writing
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Draw Beginning, Middle, and End
Lesson plan
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.
Year 2
Reading & writing
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Finding the Key Details
Lesson plan
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.
Year 2
Reading & writing
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Read and Retell a Classic!
Lesson plan
Read and Retell a Classic!
Your students will enjoy reading the classic story “The Ugly Duckling,” written about a very lovable duck! This reading lesson also includes a fun partner activity to help your students practise comprehension.
Year 2
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The Little Red Hen: Story Patterns
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The Little Red Hen: Story Patterns
With some help from The Little Red Hen, young readers will have fun enhancing their reading skills while learning about the value of hard work.
Year one
Reading & writing
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Fun with Sight Words
Lesson plan
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
Reading & writing
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Nonfiction Reading: Learning and Recording New Information
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Nonfiction Reading: Learning and Recording New Information
As students reread nonfiction, have them draw or write new information they learn. Students then share these new learnings with reading partners.
Year 2
Reading & writing
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Letter Roll Reading: Blending Sounds
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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
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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
Reading & writing
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Reading Picture Clues
Lesson plan
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
Reading & writing
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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.
