Grade 2

KAS ELA Standard: RL.2.4

Describe how words and phrases, including but not limited to regular beats, alliteration, rhymes and/or repeated lines, supply rhythm and shape meaning in a story, poem or song.

Order, Chaos, and the Holiday Season

Let’s write a holiday song about order and chaos!

Gr 1-8

Writing About Art: Chōshi in Shimosha

Get your students writing some pretty darn impressive poetry based on Japan’s most famous artist.

Gr 1-8

Writing About Art: The Scream

Your students will turn the iconic painting The Scream into a vivid, sensory poem.

Gr 1-8

Doubling Up Writing: Anadiplosis

Repeating words can be what you want, if what you want is an interesting effect. (Psst, that’s an example of anadiplosis!)

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

Fancier Figurative Language: Advanced Repetition

Is your students’ use of repetition limited to, “The girl was very, very, very fast.”? Let’s borrow some ideas from Shakespeare!

Gr 2-8

Advanced Alliteration and Consonance

When students learn about alliteration, it’s hard to steer them away from goofy tongue-twisters. Certainly, there must be more powerful and practical ways of using alliteration. In this lesson, I draw on delicious examples from Shakespeare to show how a very advanced writer used alliteration. Then, I break those ideas down so students can try them out.

Gr 2-8

What’s In My Brain: Cute Baby vs Fast Cheetah

Can students spot similes vs metaphors?

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 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

Grade 2

Composition

Language

Reading: Foundational Skills

Reading: Informational

Reading: Literature

KAS ELA Standard: RL.2.4