← All Standards

Grade 2

• Composition

  • C.2.1
  • C.2.1.a
  • C.2.1.b
  • C.2.1.c
  • C.2.1.d
  • C.2.1.e
  • C.2.1.f
  • C.2.2
  • C.2.2.a
  • C.2.2.b
  • C.2.2.c
  • C.2.2.d
  • C.2.2.e
  • C.2.2.f
  • C.2.2.g
  • C.2.3
  • C.2.3.a
  • C.2.3.b
  • C.2.3.c
  • C.2.3.d
  • C.2.3.f
  • C.2.4
  • C.2.5
  • C.2.6

• Language

  • L.2.1
  • L.2.1.e
  • L.2.1.f
  • L.2.2
  • L.2.2.a
  • L.2.2.b
  • L.2.2.c
  • L.2.2.d
  • L.2.2.e
  • L.2.3
  • L.2.3.a
  • L.2.4
  • L.2.4.a
  • L.2.4.b
  • L.2.4.c
  • L.2.4.d
  • L.2.4.e
  • L.2.4.f
  • L.2.5
  • L.2.5.a
  • L.2.5.b

• Reading: Foundational Skills

  • RF.2.3
  • RF.2.3.b
  • RF.2.3.c
  • RF.2.3.d
  • RF.2.3.e
  • RF.2.3.f
  • RF.2.4.a
  • RF.2.4.c

• Reading: Informational

  • RI.2.1
  • RI.2.2
  • RI.2.3
  • RI.2.4
  • RI.2.5
  • RI.2.6
  • RI.2.7
  • RI.2.8
  • RI.2.9
  • RI.2.10

• Reading: Literature

  • RL.2.1
  • RL.2.2
  • RL.2.3
  • RL.2.4
  • RL.2.5
  • RL.2.6
  • RL.2.7
  • RL.2.9
  • RL.2.10

KAS ELA Standard: RL.2.6

With prompting and support, acknowledge differences in the perspectives of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud, and how those perspectives shape the content of the text.

An Under-Appreciated Planet

Students write from the point of view of the most under-appreciated planet.

Gr 1-8

Comparing Characters

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

Gr 1-8

Characters’ Faults Can Also Be Strengths

Strength and weakness are often two sides of the same coin. Students will explore how a character’s flaw can be a benefit.

Gr 1-8

St. Patrick and Other Legends

How would real people feel about the legends that have been created about them?

Gr 2-8

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?

Gr 1-8

Student Introductions With Depth, Complexity, and Frames: Level Two

Once students know the prompts of Depth and Complexity, let’s take them much higher up Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Gr 1-8

A Character’s Playlist

What playlist of songs best goes with a character’s change over time?

Gr 1-8

Looking Closely at Holiday Photos

Let’s write from multiple perspectives using an old timey holiday photo!

Gr 1-8

Discussing An Important Decision from History

How would people with two different perspectives discuss a decision from history?

Gr 2-8

Analyze Characters Using Philosophy

What is the Brick Pig’s philosophy? How would he apply it to the characters in Harry Potter?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8

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.

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: The Velveteen Rabbit (The Toys)

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

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: The Jungle Book (Bagheera)

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

Gr 1-8

Think Like A Philosopher

What would Socrates have thought if he watched Frozen?

Gr 2-8

Holiday vs Holiday (from a Mascot’s Perspective)

Want something to do during the holiday season that is both fun and involves thinking? Get students writing about what a snowman would think about Halloween or what a ghost would think about Thanksgiving.

Gr 1-8

Virtue or Vice?

Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it’s a vice.

Gr 1-6

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.

Gr 1-8

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.

Gr 1-8

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.

Gr 1-8

Do Narrators Have Too Much Power?

Imagine being a character in a story. Are you worried that your story’s narrator may inaccurately describe you? What if they reveal something you wanted to be kept secret? Do narrators have too much power!?

Gr 1-8

Describing Author’s Voice

What if… Edgar Allen Poe wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?

Gr 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8

Content Imperatives: Convergence

Add complexity by considering how multiple factors 🔄 Converge within one topic.

Gr 2, 5, 6, 7, 8

Depth and Complexity: 👓 Multiple Perspectives

Every topic looks different depending on who’s looking. This prompt teaches students to see through someone else’s eyes.

Gr 1-8

Analyze Character Change with Depth and Complexity

Your students will use Depth and Complexity to note how a character’s main trait changes across a story.

Gr 1-8

Characters’ Talents and Multiple Intelligences

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

Gr 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8

Literary Technique: Juxtaposition

Put a grumpy character next to a joyful one and they make each other stand out even more. Opposites are powerful!

Gr 1-8

Asynchrony: Developing At Different Rates (For Students)

For students! In some areas, a student may be shockingly advanced, while in others… surprisingly average. This is asynchrony in action.

Gr 3-8

Motivation and Moral Development

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

Gr 2-8

Teaching Empathy With Faberge Eggs

The story of the Fabergé Eggs is heartbreaking. It’s also the perfect way to build empathy in your classroom.

Gr 1-8

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 1-8