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Grade 2

• Literacy Foundations

  • 2.LF.1
  • 2.LF.2
  • 2.LF.2.a
  • 2.LF.2.c
  • 2.LF.3
  • 2.LF.4
  • 2.LF.5
  • 2.LF.6
  • 2.LF.7.b
  • 2.LF.7.c
  • 2.LF.7.d
  • 2.LF.7.e
  • 2.LF.7.f
  • 2.LF.9
  • 2.LF.9.a
  • 2.LF.9.c
  • 2.LF.9.d
  • 2.LF.9.e
  • 2.LF.10
  • 2.LF.10.a
  • 2.LF.10.b
  • 2.LF.10.c
  • 2.LF.10.d
  • 2.LF.10.e
  • 2.LF.10.f
  • 2.LF.10.g
  • 2.LF.10.l
  • 2.LF.10.m
  • 2.LF.10.n
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  • 2.LF.14
  • 2.LF.15
  • 2.LF.15.a
  • 2.LF.16
  • 2.LF.16.a
  • 2.LF.16.b
  • 2.LF.16.c
  • 2.LF.16.d
  • 2.LF.17
  • 2.LF.17.b
  • 2.LF.18
  • 2.LF.19
  • 2.LF.20
  • 2.LF.21
  • 2.LF.22
  • 2.LF.23
  • 2.LF.23.a
  • 2.LF.23.b
  • 2.LF.23.c
  • 2.LF.23.d
  • 2.LF.23.e
  • 2.LF.24
  • 2.LF.24.a
  • 2.LF.24.b
  • 2.LF.25
  • 2.LF.25.a
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  • 2.LF.26
  • 2.LF.26.a
  • 2.LF.26.b
  • 2.LF.27
  • 2.LF.28
  • 2.LF.29
  • 2.LF.30.a
  • 2.LF.30.b
  • 2.LF.30.c
  • 2.LF.31
  • 2.LF.32
  • 2.LF.33
  • 2.LF.34
  • 2.LF.34.a
  • 2.LF.34.b
  • 2.LF.35
  • 2.LF.36
  • 2.LF.37
  • 2.LF.37.a
  • 2.LF.38
  • 2.LF.38.a
  • 2.LF.38.b
  • 2.LF.38.d
  • 2.LF.38.e
  • 2.LF.38.f
  • 2.LF.38.g
  • 2.LF.38.h
  • 2.LF.38.i
  • 2.LF.38.n
  • 2.LF.38.o
  • 2.LF.39
  • 2.LF.40
  • 2.LF.41
  • 2.LF.42
  • 2.LF.43
  • 2.LF.43.b
  • 2.LF.43.d
  • 2.LF.44
  • 2.LF.45
  • 2.LF.45.a
  • 2.LF.45.b
  • 2.LF.45.c
  • 2.LF.45.e
  • 2.LF.46
  • 2.LF.46.a
  • 2.LF.46.b
  • 2.LF.46.c
  • 2.LF.46.d

• Standards

  • 2.R1
  • 2.R2
  • 2.R3
  • 2.R4
  • 2.R5

Alabama ELA Standard: 2.LF.16

Describe word relationships and nuances in word meanings, including relating them to their opposites and distinguishing shades of meaning in similar or related words.

Introducing Power (Primary)

Power is everywhere, big and small, loud and quiet. In this version for younger students, kids brainstorm as many examples of power as they can, sort them into their own groups, and discover a big idea: power comes in many forms. A simple way to kick off the universal theme of power with primary grades.

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Eta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Zeta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Epsilon

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Delta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Beta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Alpha

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Prefixes and Suffixes in Other Languages

Let’s go beyond merely memorizing word parts and instead analyze across languages. How do other languages make a word the opposite?

Analyze Suffixes: -ly, -less, and -ful

What exactly does adding -less do to a word?

Antonym Paths

Does the antonym of an antonym bring us back to the same meaning?

Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

Writing Technique: Contrast With Synonyms

A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be contrasting two ideas using synonyms.

Writing Technique: Opposite Adjectives

A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be using antonyms to describe the same topic!

Word Ladders Introduction

You won’t believe how this spelling and vocabulary puzzle will get kids’ brains sweating over the smallest of words.

Ambiguous Sentences

Rather than just demand that students “write clearly,” we’ll explore the hazards of poorly written sentences… and maybe create one of our own!

Virtue or Vice?

Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it’s a vice.

Synonym Graphs

So, which is happiest: happy, joyful, or ecstatic? Which is most temporary?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Introduction

Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.

Content Imperatives: Paradox

How can one idea pull in opposite directions, being both true and false or right and wrong at the same time? It’s time to explore Paradoxes!