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Grade 2

• Communication & Collaboration

  • 2.CC
  • 2.CC.1
  • 2.CC.2
  • 2.CC.3
  • 2.CC.4
  • 2.CC.5
  • 2.CC.6
  • 2.CC.7

• Reading: Comprehension

  • 2.RC
  • 2.RC.1
  • 2.RC.2
  • 2.RC.3
  • 2.RC.4
  • 2.RC.5
  • 2.RC.6
  • 2.RC.7
  • 2.RC.8
  • 2.RC.9
  • 2.RC.10
  • 2.RC.11
  • 2.RC.12

• Reading: Foundations

  • 2.RF
  • 2.RF.1
  • 2.RF.2
  • 2.RF.3

• Writing

  • 2.W
  • 2.W.1
  • 2.W.2
  • 2.W.3
  • 2.W.4
  • 2.W.4.a
  • 2.W.4.b
  • 2.W.4.c
  • 2.W.4.d
  • 2.W.5
  • 2.W.5.a
  • 2.W.6
  • 2.W.6.a
  • 2.W.6.b
  • 2.W.6.c
  • 2.W.7
  • 2.W.7.a
  • 2.W.7.b
  • 2.W.7.b.I
  • 2.W.7.b.II
  • 2.W.7.c
  • 2.W.7.d
  • 2.W.8
  • 2.W.8.b
  • 2.W.8.b.I
  • 2.W.8.b.II
  • 2.W.8.c
  • 2.W.8.c.I
  • 2.W.8.c.II
  • 2.W.8.c.III

Indiana ELA Standard: 2.RC

Students comprehend grade-level text, including fiction and nonfiction, and can demonstrate their comprehension orally and through writing.

Main Idea and Details

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

Comparing Characters

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

A Character’s Challenges and Changes

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

Hero or Not A Hero?

Students will determine what makes a hero a hero.

Comparing Characters’ Bedrooms

What item’s in a character’s bedroom would reflect their deepest desires? And what if they toured a similar character’s room?

Writing Sample: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Falling)

A passage from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Writing Sample: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Shrinking)

A passage from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Writing Sample: The Velveteen Rabbit (The Toys)

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

Writing Sample: White Fang (The Wild)

A passage from White Fang to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Writing Sample: The Jungle Book (Bagheera)

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

Writing Sample: The Wind in the Willows

A passage from The Wind in the Willows to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Writing Sample: Moby Dick

A passage from Moby Dick to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Writing Sample: Peter Pan

A passage from “Peter Pan” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Writing Sample: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

A passage from “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Writing Sample: The Fall of the House of Usher

A passage from “The Fall of the House of Usher” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Writing Sample: Anne of Green Gables

An intriguing passage from Anne of Green Gables to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Jabberwocky and Context Clues

Context clues lessons can be a disaster. Here, we expose students to a delightful classic packed with nonsense words (“Jabberwocky”) and ask them to decipher the meanings and parts of speech. Then, it’s only natural for students to write their own nonsense poems.

Studying and Remixing “The Raven”

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

Characters’ Talents and Multiple Intelligences

How do characters from novels line up with Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences?

Motivation and Moral Development

Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?

Twelfth Night Summary

An animated summary of Shakespeare’s utterly ridiculous “Twelfth Night.”