This resource accompanies our Rethink 2nd Grade ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.  

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

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 2nd Grade English Language Arts content.

The central idea of this unit is how sharing artifacts is a fundamental characteristic of humans that connects them to each other and culture.

By now students have worked with many strategies to add and subtract numbers. Students will work in pairs. One student will think of an addition or subtraction problem and choose an efficient strategy to solve the problem. Then the student will give the problem to the other student who will solve the problem and explain his/her strategy to the partner. The problem poser will ask questions about the explanation or tell how the strategy matched the strategy he/she used. Students will discuss the benefits of a particular strategy. Then the other student will pose the next problem. The students will keep track of strategies used and try to create problems that will allow them to use more than one strategy. For the last few minutes of the activity the pairs can share out the different strategies they were able to use and explain. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

This resource is a lesson plan for using the book, The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall. Anticipation guide, graphic organizer, recipe for apple pie, and a link for the book is included. Students will observe an apple tree throughout seasons while answering questions.

Book Buddies is a program which pairs up a child from a primary class and a child from an intermediate class. In this lesson, students create a personalized biography for their reading buddy as a great way to break the ice when Book Buddies meet for the first time. Students brainstorm questions they can ask to get to know their Book Buddy. Then they use the questions to interview their Book Buddies. They write a biography of their new friend and publish it using an online tool.

This is the Core 40 vocabulary board that was created by the AAC team in BCPS. It pairs an image with a term for 40 of the most commonly used words in the English Language. 

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 lesson, students will read Chrysanthemum to introduce the topic of names. Students make Name Bingo cards by writing the name of each classmate in a different square of a blank Bingo board. Next, students brainstorm personal questions designed to get to know one another. To play the game, the teacher randomly calls out a name, and students cover that name on their board with a marker. In this twist of the traditional bingo game, after each name is chosen, the student responds by answering one of the questions designed to help students learn more about one another.

Bobby didn’t so much mind the idea of sharing his toy car. He was more bothered by his sister Jean did not asking before she took. Because Jean was miffed at Bobby’s refusal to share his toy, she had not thought about how her own behavior caused him to be upset. Included: Three different formats of the story, including PDF, eBook and side-by-side. Our social stories are free in support of the social emotional education of children.

No, Deenie, No is a story about a young girl who misbehaves, which prompts the response “No, Deenie, no.” Then one day Deenie realizes she doesn’t like hearing the word “no.” But she must decide what to do in order to hear “yes!”

This teacher's curriculum guide presents strategies for engaging readers before, during, and after reading the book. It also provides extension strategies to further students’ understanding through analysis of verbs and narrative writing tasks.