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Tired of resources that you have to mix and match together for the best fit for your second graders? This mini unit is everything you need to help your students understand syllable division rules and tricks. This is a FLEXIBLE resource! You can use the practice sheets and slides altogether as a unit, or you can use them throughout the year as extra practice or with corresponding phonics units. Get this mini unit now for: lesson slides with teacher notes and video linkssound cards with the syll

Tired of resources that you have to mix and match together for the best fit for your second graders? This unit is EVERYTHING your students need to master reading and spelling words with digraphs and trigraphs! This curriculum is best for whole-group instruction with some small group supports and activities in place. Lessons should take about 10 minutes or less per day with extra worksheets and activities included for each lesson! Each lesson includes either phonological or phonemic awareness an

Get organized in style with these fully editable binder covers and spine labels. These are perfect for any classroom and pair perfectly with my Tropical Jungle decor bundle - sophisticated and calm decor for your classroom. You will need a free account with Canva to access this resource - teachers get pro for free! You will get:- A PDF file with a link to the Canva template - 10 pages of various spine styles and sizes - 8 FULLY editable binder covers - Several partially editable covers, includi

Tired of resources that you have to mix and match together for the best fit for your second graders? These units have EVERYTHING your students need to master reading and spelling words with 2nd grade phonics skills! This curriculum is best for whole-group instruction with some small-group supports and activities in place. Lessons should take about 10 minutes or less per day with extra worksheets and activities included for each lesson! Each lesson includes either phonological or phonemic awarene

These sound wall posters were designed for second graders and older students in mind! Filled with rich vocabulary, easy to see pictures, and color coded sounds - these posters are perfect for any sound wall. And, you get individual PNG images of each poster (for personal use only) so you can print and resize to your heart's desire - or even attach them to your daily slides! A phonics sound wall is an educational tool used in elementary classrooms to support literacy development by visually repre

Tired of resources that you have to mix and match together for the best fit for your second graders? This unit is EVERYTHING your students need to master reading and spelling words with beginning and ending consonant blends! This curriculum is best for whole-group instruction with some small group supports and activities in place. Lessons should take about 10 minutes or less per day with extra worksheets and activities included for each lesson! Each lesson includes either phonological or phonem

This is the twelfth and final unit of my 2nd Grade Grammar Curriculum Bundle - Groovy Grammar! This curriculum is designed to engage students with 2nd grade grammar skills via several different modalities so their learning really sticks. Unit 12 is all about letters and focuses on how commas are used in letters. Students will first explore the parts of a letter, which works great in conjunction with any letter writing unit! They were learn about headings, greetings, closings, and signatures. The

This is tenth unit of my growing 2nd Grade Grammar Curriculum Bundle - Groovy Grammar! This curriculum is designed to engage students with 2nd grade grammar skills via several different modalities so their learning really sticks. Unit 10 is all about multiple meaning words: homophones and homographs. The standard largely focuses on homographs (words that are spelled the same) but students will also get a chance to explore words that sound the same (homophones) but are spelled differently. This u

This is eleventh unit of my growing 2nd Grade Grammar Curriculum Bundle - Groovy Grammar! This curriculum is designed to engage students with 2nd grade grammar skills via several different modalities so their learning really sticks. Unit 11 is all about reference materials (L.2.2.E and L.2.4.E) with a focus on dictionaries (both physical and digital)! Students will first review alphabetical order to make it easier to search for words in the dictionary. Then, they will get lots of practice lookin

This is ninth unit of my growing 2nd Grade Grammar Curriculum Bundle - Groovy Grammar! This curriculum is designed to engage students with 2nd grade grammar skills via several different modalities so their learning really sticks. Unit 9 is all about how apostrophes are used in frequently occurring contractions and possessives (L.2.2.C). Students will learn about some of the rules surrounding contracting words and creating possessive nouns, as well as some of the oddballs or rule breakers! Your k

This is eighth unit of my growing 2nd Grade Grammar Curriculum Bundle - Groovy Grammar! This curriculum is designed to engage students with 2nd grade grammar skills via several different modalities so their learning really sticks. Unit 8 is a valentine’s themed unit that explores collective nouns (L.2.1.A). Although activities and projects have a valentine’s theme, they are definitely versatile enough to use any time of year! Students will learn about the most common or popular collective nouns

This is seventh unit of my growing 2nd Grade Grammar Curriculum Bundle - Groovy Grammar! This curriculum is designed to engage students with 2nd grade grammar skills via several different modalities so their learning really sticks. Unit 7 is winter themed and focuses on the parts of words that can help them read and spell. These parts are root words + prefixes (L.2.4.B) and compound words (L.2.4.D). Students will first explore common prefixes like un, mis, re, pre, and dis. Then they will focus

This is sixth unit of my growing 2nd Grade Grammar Curriculum Bundle - Groovy Grammar! This curriculum is designed to engage students with 2nd grade grammar skills via several different modalities so their learning really sticks. Unit 6 focuses on synonyms and shades of meaning within related words (L.2.5.B). Students will first explore synonyms and related words, and practice matching related words together and using the right word in a sentence. Then students will get into shades of meaning an

This is fifth unit of my growing 2nd Grade Grammar Curriculum Bundle - Groovy Grammar! This curriculum is designed to engage students with 2nd grade grammar skills via several different modalities so their learning really sticks. Unit 5 offers an in-depth look into complete sentences - both simple and compound! (L.2.1.F) Students will explore subjects and predicates, and notice that all complete simple sentences have them. Students will later learn about conjunctions and how they are used to bri

This is fourth unit of my growing 2nd Grade Grammar Curriculum Bundle - Groovy Grammar! This curriculum is designed to engage students with 2nd grade grammar skills via several different modalities so their learning really sticks. Unit 4 offers a quick look at capital letters and how they are used in geographic/place names, product names, and holidays. YOU WILL GET: 4 flexible, active lesson plansmatching activities and worksheetsextension project: create a product name!accommodations and modif

This is third unit of my growing 2nd Grade Grammar Curriculum Bundle - Groovy Grammar! This curriculum is designed to engage students with 2nd grade grammar skills via several different modalities so their learning really sticks. Unit 3 offers an in-depth look into describing words - adjectives and adverbs! Students will first learn what adjectives are by creating a flip book, playing a matching game, describing pictures, and exploring the senses (L.2.1.E). Students will also get a chance to exp

This bundle is now complete! - 2nd Grade Grammar Curriculum Bundle - Groovy Grammar! This curriculum is designed to engage students with 2nd-grade grammar skills via several different modalities so their learning really sticks. Each lesson is rooted in Common Core State Standards and has matching modified activities that use the Alternate Achievement Standards. Each unit includes a variety of resources from lessons and anchor charts to games like charades or write the room! Click on each unit

This is second unit of my growing 2nd Grade Grammar Curriculum Bundle - Groovy Grammar! This curriculum is designed to engage students with 2nd grade grammar skills via several different modalities so their learning really sticks. Unit 2 offers a review of nouns (common, proper, and plural) and verbs (present, past, and future) in the first week. Then, in the second week, we dive into commonly used irregular past tense verbs (L.2.1.D). Students will explore irregular verbs through charades, anch

Decorate your classroom with matching, student-friendly fonts and colors! This classroom community and relationship building CALM corner is perfect for any classroom theme. You will get: CALM acronym posters (cool off, activity, listen to your feelings, move on)Calm Crate label for your bin of fidgets etc.A flipbook with the CALM strategiesCALM Strategies: Cool off: take a second to breathe. Choose from several breathing strategiees.Activity: choose something from the calm crate, read, squeeze

Decorate your classroom with matching, student-friendly fonts and themes! This bundle of labels will let you label anything and everything in you classroom from student supplies, manipulatives, toolboxes, rolling carts, mailboxes, and so much more! You will get premade aver 5136 labels for folders and notebooksPNGs of some labels for cutting machinesOVER 140 pre-made labels perfectly sized for the skinny lakeshore binspre-made labels sized for IKEA sortera recycling binspre-made labels for a lib