Students will learn what an adjective is and how to categorize adjectives using an interactive sorting game. Students will compete with each other by categorizing adjectives by color, shape, size, and kind. Students will have to read and sort the adjective word cards. Furthermore, students will use magazine photographs to describe nouns and write sentences.

In this lesson, students choose their own reading material, respond to reading in a journal, and talk about their books daily in small groups. The teacher guides the work through structured prompts and by rotating participation with the groups. Students read at their individual levels, while heterogeneous grouping provides peer support. This lesson is a structured guideline for helping students learn to think about the books they read, and to ask questions about books shared by other students.

In this activity, students will work with a partner to illustrate a collective noun. The teacher will write one collective noun on a sheet of paper (flock, bouquet, batch, heard, etc.) and partners will illustrate the collective noun and will write a sentence using the collective noun.

Students will be identifying parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, and adverbs by scratching off to reveal a sentence in which a word is used.

In this lesson, students become familiar with the short /u/ sound as they listen to Taro Yashima’s Caldecott Honor-winning book, Umbrella. Prereading activities build vocabulary and comprehension skills, a read-aloud introduces students to the sounds of the story, and concluding exercises allow students to apply their understanding of phonic elements in other contexts.

In this lesson, students create a card set to help review irregular plural nouns.

Students will circle the reflexive pronoun in each sentence and then draw a line back to the subject it is reflecting.

These interactive games on collective nouns will  provvide tutorials, reviews, and reinforcement for collective nouns,

This unit was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This unit is aligned to the NC Standards for 2nd Grade ELA. 

Students can view this educational musical video to learn about nouns and develop new ways to include then when speaking and writing.

Students can view this educational musical video to learn about adjectives and develop new ways to include then when speaking and writing.

This resource contains extensions, assessments/reflections, and five different session ideas to teach students how to: use prior knowledge to categorize words as parts of speech; use reading skills to create sentences with word cards; discover the required elements of a complete sentence by manipulating everyday words; share and learn new vocabulary; use descriptive words and phrases to complete complex sentences; and demonstrate reading comprehension through illustrations.

Students will use their previously written narratives to share their stories with others using the Dash Robot.

In this lesson, students will turn singular nouns into plural nouns. Students will also sort singular and plural nouns.

In this lesson, students read words found on everyday objects and use them to identify individual letters. They then create captions for an electronic book with preselected logos and illustrations. Finally, they create an original little book choosing their own logos, captions, and images.

Let Spelly Spellican help you practice the Dolch Sight Words! First, make sure your sound is on, then choose one of the following word lists: Preprimer, Primer, First, Second, or Third. Correctly spell all of the words that you hear, and have fun exploring the ocean depths! About the Dolch Word List - The Dolch Word List is a list of English sight words by Edward William Dolch, PhD. The list is comprised of 220 words grouped by level, and includes pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, verbs and nouns. *Headphones or speakers are required for this activity

Students will review different verb tenses and identify these verbs in sentences using Nearpod, Blooket, and Gimkit.  Blooket and Gimkit are gaming options for review of the material. 

Students will feed the snake by eating verbs that agree with the subject. There are four different levels to choose from: be/have verbs; present tense; past tense; and past participle.