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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.SL.5

Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

Holiday Emoji Story ⛷️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 2-8

Holiday Emoji Story 🍪

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 1-8

Holiday Emoji Story 🚚

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 2-8

Emoji Stories 🚚

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 2-8

Emoji Stories 👁️

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 2-8

Emoji Stories 🤖

Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?

Gr 1-8

Squiggles Collection 3

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

Gr 1-8

Squiggles Introduction

What do you see in this squiggle?

Gr 1-3

Squiggles Collection 1

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8

Squiggles Collection 2

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8

Random Emoji Prompt Generator

Click up an interesting, visual writing prompt suitable for any grade or purpose.

Gr 1-8

Back to School: Rewriting The Beatles’ “Help!”

Can your students come up with a one-syllable word to sum up their time away from school? And then rewrite The Beatles’ song Help!?

Gr 1-8

Drawing An Impossible Triangle

Here’s how you can draw The Penrose Triangle, an example of an impossible shape.

Gr 1-2

Drawing Knots, Level 3

How to draw the final version of the twisty Henri Matisse knot!

Gr 1-2

Drawing Knots, Level 2

How to draw a more complex version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!

Gr 1-2

Parabolic Curve Art

Create mathematical art with curves that, well, aren’t curvy.

Gr 1, 2, 3, 8

Writing About Art: Twilight in the Wilderness

Look closely at Twilight in the Wilderness. What do you notice? Now turn those details into a poem you didn’t know you could write.

Gr 1-8

Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective

Let’s get students’ art really popping with two-point perspective!

Gr 1-8

An Escher-Style Tessellation Project

Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!

Gr 1-8

Self Portraits Part One: Line Drawings

Anyone, yes anyone, can create a (somewhat) realistic self-portrait using these steps. Anyone!

Gr 1-2

Self Portraits: Pointillism

Turn your students into a bunch of Monets with q-tips and some tempera paint.

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: The Velveteen Rabbit (The Toys)

A passage from The Velveteen Rabbit to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Remixing A Holiday Poem

Let’s take a classic Christmas poem and remix it to work with another holiday!

Gr 1-8

Welcome, Students!

A video to welcome students to Byrdseed.TV.

Gr 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8

Improving Presentations 4: The Big Day

How do you mentally (and emotionally) prepare yourself for the big day?

Gr 2-8

Improving Presentations 3: The Storyboard and Slides

It’s time to turn that outline into a storyboard and then some actual slides.

Gr 1-8

Studying and Remixing “The Raven”

Ready to push kids beyond the boring, old ABAB rhyme scheme and into something a bit more complex?

Gr 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Educational Valentines

Let’s make valentines with an educational twist!

Gr 1-8

Drawing Natural Curves Like Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy turns leaves and stones into art. Your students will learn to draw his signature natural curves — then build on them.

Gr 1-8

Introduce Symbolism with Pixel Art

Create a pixelated icon that represents the essence of a character!

Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8

Reduce Anxiety: Brain Plate (Tool 3)

When a student’s brain is full of worries, everything feels urgent. Brain Plate helps them sort what’s real from what’s noise — and actually do something about it.

Gr 1-8

Greekymon

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

Gr 1-8

Add Layers To Direct Instruction

Take direction instruction beyond a monotonous practice of the same skill over and over.

Gr 1-8

Better Stories Part 1: The Big Idea

We open our unit on narrative writing with a big idea: “structure increases creativity.” I show how this is true by bringing in examples from across all disciplines.

Gr 1-8