← All Standards

Grade 2

• Language

  • 2.L.1
  • 2.L.1.a
  • 2.L.1.b
  • 2.L.1.c
  • 2.L.1.d
  • 2.L.1.e
  • 2.L.1.f
  • 2.L.1.g
  • 2.L.1.h
  • 2.L.1.i
  • 2.L.2
  • 2.L.2.c
  • 2.L.2.d
  • 2.L.3
  • 2.L.4
  • 2.L.4.a
  • 2.L.4.b
  • 2.L.4.c
  • 2.L.4.d
  • 2.L.4.e
  • 2.L.5
  • 2.L.5.a
  • 2.L.5.b
  • 2.L.6

• Reading: Foundational Skills

  • 2.RF.3
  • 2.RF.3.b
  • 2.RF.3.c
  • 2.RF.3.d
  • 2.RF.3.e
  • 2.RF.3.f
  • 2.RF.4.a
  • 2.RF.4.c

• Reading: Informational

  • 2.RI.1
  • 2.RI.2
  • 2.RI.3
  • 2.RI.4
  • 2.RI.5
  • 2.RI.6
  • 2.RI.7
  • 2.RI.8
  • 2.RI.9
  • 2.RI.10

• Reading: Literature

  • 2.RL.1
  • 2.RL.2
  • 2.RL.3
  • 2.RL.4
  • 2.RL.5
  • 2.RL.6
  • 2.RL.7
  • 2.RL.9
  • 2.RL.10

• Speaking & Listening

  • 2.SL.1
  • 2.SL.1.a
  • 2.SL.1.b
  • 2.SL.1.c
  • 2.SL.2
  • 2.SL.3
  • 2.SL.4
  • 2.SL.5
  • 2.SL.6

• Writing

  • 2.W.1
  • 2.W.2
  • 2.W.3
  • 2.W.4
  • 2.W.5
  • 2.W.6
  • 2.W.7
  • 2.W.8

• Writing Foundational Skills

  • 2.WF.1
  • 2.WF.1.a
  • 2.WF.1.b
  • 2.WF.2
  • 2.WF.2.a
  • 2.WF.2.a.1
  • 2.WF.2.a.2
  • 2.WF.3
  • 2.WF.3.a
  • 2.WF.3.a.1
  • 2.WF.3.a.2
  • 2.WF.3.a.4
  • 2.WF.3.a.6
  • 2.WF.3.a.7
  • 2.WF.3.b
  • 2.WF.3.b.1
  • 2.WF.3.b.2
  • 2.WF.3.b.3
  • 2.WF.3.c
  • 2.WF.3.c.1
  • 2.WF.3.c.2
  • 2.WF.3.c.3
  • 2.WF.3.d
  • 2.WF.3.d.1
  • 2.WF.3.d.2

Arizona ELA Standard: 2.L.2.d

Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).

Word Ladder: Fly to Bee (6-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Wild to Tame (5-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Words Within Words: IRELAND

How many words can you find within Ireland?

Words Within Words: CORNMAZE

How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?

Words Within Words: COBWEB

How many words can you find within COBWEB?

Words Within Words: ORNAMENT

How many words can you find within ORNAMENT?

Words Within Words: WREATH

How many words can you find within WREATH?

Words Within Words: SCARECROW

How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?

Words Within Words: CRANBERRY

How many words can you find within “cranberry”?

Words Within Words: STUFFING

How many words are hiding inside STUFFING? More than you think.

Phobia-ology

What strange new fears are hiding inside Greek and Latin roots?

Greek and Latin Inventions

What useful or ridiculous inventions are hiding inside Greek and Latin roots?

Greek and Latin Spellbook

What happens when Greek and Latin roots become magic spells?

Words Within Words: WESTERN

How many words can you find within WESTERN?

Word Pyramid: M to CAMPUS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: U to Brush

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Words Within Words: TROMBONE

How many words can you find within TROMBONE?

Lipogram: Rewrite “Mary Had A Little Lamb”

What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?

Lipogram: Rewrite “Twinkle, Twinkle”

What if we rewrote a piece of writing without using certain letters?

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

What exactly does adding -less do to a word?

Words Within Words: LEOPARD

How many words can you find within “leopard”?

Word Pyramid: P to PLAINS

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: T to Patch

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Word Pyramid: H to CRASH

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Writing in Pilish

Pi can go beyond circles! What if you wrote using the digits of pi as your guide?

Word Ladder: East to West (4 Steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Two to Six (6-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder – Cold to Cool (5-Steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Fast to Race (4 step)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Arm to Leg (6-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Kid to Old (5-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder – Sun to Hot (5-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder – Tea to Hot (5-steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Band to Sing (4 Steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Foot to Shoe (4 Steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladder: Fire to Warm (4 Steps)

COLD to COOL. BAND to SING. Change one letter at a time — can you find the path?

Word Ladders Introduction

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

Words Within Words: MENORAH

How many words can you find within MENORAH?

Plurals: An Inductive Spelling Lesson

Plural nouns in English are deliciously fascinating. Yet most plural lessons are so dull! In this experience, students are given a pile of plurals and then inductively create groups and pull out rules and patterns.

Advanced Alliteration and Consonance

When students learn about alliteration, it’s hard to steer them away from goofy tongue-twisters. Certainly, there must be more powerful and practical ways of using alliteration. In this lesson, I draw on delicious examples from Shakespeare to show how a very advanced writer used alliteration. Then, I break those ideas down so students can try them out.

Greekymon

Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.