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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.

Power and Symbols (Primary)

A skull and crossbones warns anyone, in any language. Ask a second grader to draw “maybe” and things get trickier.

Holiday Emoji Story ⛷️

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

Holiday Emoji Story 🍪

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

Holiday Emoji Story 🚚

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

Emoji Stories 🚚

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

Emoji Stories 👁️

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

Emoji Stories 🤖

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

Squiggles Collection 3

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

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?

Squiggles Introduction

What do you see in this squiggle?

Squiggles Collection 1

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

Squiggles Collection 2

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

Random Emoji Prompt Generator

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

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!?

Drawing An Impossible Triangle

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

Drawing Knots, Level 3

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

Drawing Knots, Level 2

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

Parabolic Curve Art

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

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.

Art Lesson: Two-Point Perspective

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

An Escher-Style Tessellation Project

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

Self Portraits Part One: Line Drawings

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

Self Portraits: Pointillism

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

Writing Sample: The Velveteen Rabbit (The Toys)

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

Remixing A Holiday Poem

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

Improving Presentations 4: The Big Day

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

Improving Presentations 3: The Storyboard and Slides

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

Studying and Remixing “The Raven”

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

Educational Valentines

Let’s make valentines with an educational twist!

Introduce Symbolism with Pixel Art

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

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.

Greekymon

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

Add Layers To Direct Instruction

For Teachers

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

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.