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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.RF.1

Use knowledge of the six major syllable types (CVC, CVr, V, VV, VCe, Cle) to decode two-syllable words, independent of context. (E)

Valentine’s Day Codes

Teach your students about basic cryptography and code making.

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: February

How many words can you find within February?

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: Chocolate

How many words can you find within Chocolate?

Gr 1-5

Word Ladder: Fly to Bee (6-steps)

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

Gr 1-8

Words Within Words: RAINBOW

How many words can you find within rainbow?

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: IRELAND

How many words can you find within Ireland?

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: LATKES

How many words can you find within LATKES?

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: CORNMAZE

How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: COBWEB

How many words can you find within COBWEB?

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: WREATH

How many words can you find within WREATH?

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: SCARECROW

How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: CRANBERRY

How many words can you find within “cranberry”?

Gr 1-5

Path Cipher (Codes Part 4)

Now let’s try the Path Cipher – a cipher that mixes things up even more than Zig Zag did.

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

Shift Cipher (Codes Part 1)

Let’s encode and decode secret messages like Julius Caesar!

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: Intro (SOLDIER)

How many words can you find within SOLDIER? 20? 35? 50? Even more!?

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: WESTERN

How many words can you find within WESTERN?

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: TEACHER

How many words can you find within TEACHER?

Gr 1-5

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?

Gr 1-8

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?

Gr 1-8

Words Within Words: TROMBONE

How many words can you find within TROMBONE?

Gr 1-5

Analyze Suffixes: -en

What exactly does adding -en to a word do? Find the pattern. Then find the words that break it.

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: AIRPLANE

How many words can you find within airplane?

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: LEOPARD

How many words can you find within “leopard”?

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: SATURN

How many words can you find within Saturn?

Gr 1-5

Word Pyramid: I to LIONS

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

Gr 1-5

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?

Gr 1-5

Word Ladder: East to West (4 Steps)

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

Gr 1-8

Word Ladder – Cold to Cool (5-Steps)

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

Gr 1-5

Word Ladder: Sky to Red (5-steps)

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

Gr 1-5

Word Ladder: Foot to Shoe (4 Steps)

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

Gr 1-5

Jotto

Who can guess the codeword first?

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: MENORAH

How many words can you find within MENORAH?

Gr 1-5

Ghost

Ghost is a word-building game for two players. The first person to create an actual word loses.

Gr 1-5

Words Within Words: NUTCRACKER

How many words can you find within NUTCRACKER?

Gr 1-5