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Grade 2

• Language

  • 2.L.1
  • 2.L.2.d
  • 2.L.2
  • 2.L.3
  • 2.L.5.b
  • 2.L.5

• Reading: Fluency

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

• Reading: Informational

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

• Speaking & Listening

  • 2.SL.1.c
  • 2.SL.1
  • 2.SL.3
  • 2.SL.4
  • 2.SL.6

• Writing

  • 2.W.2
  • 2.W.3.a
  • 2.W.3.c
  • 2.W.3
  • 2.W.4
  • 2.W.5
  • 2.W.10

CCSS ELA Standard: 2.RL.2

Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

Main Idea and Details

Young students can use this big idea organizer to identify the main idea and support it with details.

Gr 1-2

Comparing Characters

Your young students will compare how two characters have changed in a story.

Gr 1-2

Identifying A Story’s Theme

Teach your young students to identify the moral or the theme of a story.

Gr 1-2

A Character’s Challenges and Changes

Your 1st and 2nd graders will analyze how a character responded to a challenge.

Gr 1-2

Introducing Universal Theme of Change

Everything changes. But how does it change? Students brainstorm dozens of examples and boil them down to one big idea.

Gr 2-8

Introducing Universal Theme of Systems

So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Systems? Well, here’s an introduction that will get your students’ brains sweating.

Gr 2-8

Introducing Universal Theme of Power

So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Power? Well, here’s an introduction that will get your students’ brains sweating.

Gr 2-8

Invisible Power Can Have Visible Effects

Can you think of times when power is unseen, but we can clearly see its effects?

Gr 2-8

Better Stories Part 3: Literary Themes

A typical student narrative includes plot and characters but lacks a larger idea to hold it all together. This is where a lesson on themes comes in…

Gr 2-8

Better Stories Part 4: Character Archetypes

Are students’ characters a bit flat? Archetypes give them a strong foundation on which to build their own characters as well as a tool to analyze existing stories.

Gr 2-8