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Week 28
Review Blends and Digraphs
Review Blends and Digraphs
Your child may have had a lot of practise reading digraphs and blends, but it is still important to review them! Write words that include digraphs and blends, then have your child sort them by type.
Your class may have had a lot of practise reading digraphs and blends, but it is still important to review them! Write words that include digraphs and blends, then have students sort them by type.
Beginning Consonant Blends
Worksheet
Beginning Consonant Blends
This fill-in-the-bubble test is a great way to help kids familiarize with standardized testing.
Year 2
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Consonant Sounds: S Blends
Worksheet
Consonant Sounds: S Blends
Boost your first grader's reading skills by practising S letter blends like in smile, swing, and star.
Year 2
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Consonant Sounds: L Blends
Worksheet
Consonant Sounds: L Blends
Work on L blends with your first grader with this worksheet that asks kids to match pictures with the same beginning blend.
Year 2
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Place Value
Place Value
Be sure to represent tens and ones in a variety of ways, and allow your child opportunities to build numbers with cubes and blocks. practise exchanging ten pennies for a dime to further reinforce place value.
Be sure to represent tens and ones in a variety of ways, and allow students opportunities to build numbers with cubes and blocks. practise exchanging ten pennies for a dime to further reinforce place value.
Place Value Game Show
Game
Place Value Game Show
Kids find numbers with tens and ones in this place value game show!
Year 2
Maths
Game
Show Me the Money! Two-Digit Subtraction
Lesson plan
Show Me the Money! Two-Digit Subtraction
Who doesn’t like to spend money and plan parties? Students will subtract two-digit numbers as they calculate the remaining money for their party supplies. They will subtract in multiples of ten and focus on place value.
Year 2
Maths
Lesson plan
The Make Ten Game
Worksheet
The Make Ten Game
Make making ten a game with this extra-easy addition card game that comes with all the supplies you need.
Year 2
Maths
Worksheet
Retelling Stories
Retelling Stories
Be creative and have your child act out a favorite book with puppets or dolls. Stage a performance for the rest of the family!
By this time of the year, students should be reading A LOT! Give them an opportunity to retell and act out their favorite books with a reading buddy.
The Ugly Duckling Story
Worksheet
The Ugly Duckling Story
Test comprehension with this fairy tale jumble! Put "The Ugly Duckling" story scenes back in order.
Year 2
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
What Would the Character Do?
Worksheet
What Would the Character Do?
Bring story characters to life by having your students imagine them in real life scenarios. In this creative activity, students will seek to analyze their favorite characters by thinking about how each one would react in different situations.
Year 2
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Who are the Key Characters?
Lesson plan
Who are the Key Characters?
Use this fun theatrical lesson plan to help your students identify key characters and events in fiction stories. This can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the Play it Again lesson plan.
Year 2
Reading & Writing
Lesson plan
Editing
Editing
Help your child edit a realistic fiction story at home. Check for correct capitalization and punctuation. Your child may even want to experiment with including dialogue in the story!
As your students put the finishing touches on their realistic fiction stories, show them how to reread and edit their stories. Check for correct capitalization. Some students may even want to include dialogue in their stories!
Make That Dialogue Pop!
Worksheet
Make That Dialogue Pop!
As students write stories, encourage them to add dialogue to their writing with this fun worksheet. Students practise both correctly punctuating dialogue and adding details to make their writing pop!
Year 2
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Editing Stew
Worksheet
Editing Stew
It’s time to make a stew...an editing stew! Students apply their knowledge of capitalization to write a plan for buying their ingredients on different days of the week.
Year 2
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
Find and Fix the Mistakes: Capitalization and Punctuation
Worksheet
Find and Fix the Mistakes: Capitalization and Punctuation
Challenge your young learner’s command of grammar and punctuation rules with this printable quiz!
Year 2
Reading & Writing
Worksheet
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