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Start your year with confidence using this comprehensive 2nd Grade Beginning of the Year Assessment Packet! Perfect for back-to-school benchmarking, this resource gives teachers the tools to evaluate foundational skills in phonics, reading fluency, sight word recognition, writing, and math. Designed for ease of use and aligned to first grade standards, this pack helps you quickly identify learning gaps and group students for targeted instruction. Great for classroom teachers, interventionists

Turn your classroom into a team of young authors with Our Picture Book Adventure! This engaging, hands-on writing unit helps 2nd graders plan, write, and illustrate their own picture book while learning the structure of a story — beginning, middle, and end. Perfect for a 2–3 day writing lesson or a mini-unit, this resource blends literacy, art, and creativity to build confidence in young writers. Students will brainstorm characters and settings, plan their story with a simple storyboard, and c

Bring your Wonders 2020 Unit 2 writing instruction to life with this engaging Habitat Research Report Project designed to align with the 2nd Grade Writing to Inform: Research Report unit. This resource supports your students from planning to publishing using student friendly anchor charts, scaffolded outlines, and hands on lessons all aligned to the Wonders Unit 2 writing scope and sequence. Students will learn how to ask research questions, gather facts, organize their ideas, and write a c

Help your students understand how government works with these engaging, kid-friendly reading passages! This resource includes 6 nonfiction articles about important government roles, written at a Level N (2nd grade) reading level to build comprehension and social studies knowledge at the same time. Each passage focuses on a different government job and clearly explains roles, responsibilities, and real-world impact in a way young learners can understand. What’s Included: 6 full-page read

Build confidence and fluency with this Wonders 2nd Grade Unit 3 Sight Word Fluency Packet! This resource provides five weeks of one-minute sight word fluency practice aligned with McGraw-Hill Wonders (2nd Grade). Students can track their weekly progress while improving sight word recognition, automaticity, and reading speed. Perfect for whole group warm-ups, literacy centers, small group instruction, RTI, or take-home fluency practice! 🌟 What’s Included✅ 5 Weeks of Wonders-Aligned Sight

Make teaching Wonders 2020 ELA Second Grade Unit 3 Weeks 1–2 easier and more engaging with this supplemental packet! This resource is packed with ready-to-use activities, anchor charts, centers, flashcards, and worksheets that align directly with the Wonders curriculum. Perfect for whole-group instruction, small groups, or independent practice. What’s Included: ✔ Anchor Charts – Long A and Long I spelling patterns ✔ Sight Word Flashcards ✔ Long A Sorting Center ✔ Roll a Long I Word Game ✔ Rhymin

Bring Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White to life with this printable comprehension packet designed specifically for 2nd grade readers! This chapter-by-chapter novel study includes two comprehension questions per chapter that focus on key 2nd grade ELA skills, including main idea, character traits, vocabulary, predictions, and theme. Perfect for whole-class read-alouds, small group instruction, or independent novel studies, this resource makes it easy to support reading comprehension with no prep req

Start each school day with meaningful conversations using this Morning Meeting Slide Deck featuring 200 engaging discussion questions for the entire school year! Organized by monthly themes, holidays, and school-friendly topics, this editable Google Slides resource builds classroom community, promotes speaking and listening, and makes your morning routine a breeze. Each slide presents a student-friendly question designed to spark reflection, creativity, and connection. Perfect for grades 1–4

Looking to build strong math foundations and keep students engaged in small groups or math centers? This 2nd Grade Math Mats Bundle includes 14 reusable work mats that cover key skills aligned with the 2nd grade math curriculum. Perfect for small group instruction, early finishers, or independent practice, these versatile mats can be used over and over again with dry-erase pockets or lamination! These hands-on math visuals support a range of strategies and concepts to deepen number sense and flu

Make teaching Author’s Purpose engaging and hands-on with these ready-to-use literacy centers! Perfect for 2nd grade classrooms, these activities help students practice identifying whether a text is meant to Persuade, Inform, or Entertain (PIE). With interactive tasks and easy-to-follow directions, students will strengthen their reading comprehension skills while having fun. This resource is designed for guided reading groups, literacy centers, or whole-class practice. The centers are differe

Help your students master sequencing skills with these engaging, differentiated fable worksheets designed for 2nd grade! This resource includes two complete fable lessons written at three different reading levels (RAZ Levels J, L, and N). Each fable features a clear beginning, middle, and end, along with interactive boxes for students to record key events. ✨ What’s Included: 2 original fables with moral lessons Differentiated texts at 3 reading levels (RAZ J, L, N) Large-print passages for easy

Help your students understand author’s purpose with this engaging, print-and-go worksheet! Featuring a short narrative nonfiction passage about a community helper (a firefighter), students will practice identifying key details, determining the author’s purpose, and recognizing the genre. This worksheet is perfect for second grade reading comprehension, small groups, literacy centers, or independent practice. With plenty of space for student responses, it works well as both a class activity an

Engage your 2nd-grade students with this interactive Google Slides presentation focused on verbs. Students will go on a mini verb adventure to save Verb City from the evil eraserman! What's included in the mini lesson: -Definition of action verbs -Action Verbs example -Verb brain break -Identify the verbs in a sentence Designed to complement the McGraw-Hill Wonders curriculum, this resource offers a dynamic approach to teaching verbs through visual aids, examples, and interactive activities.

Bring your Wonders 2nd Grade Unit 1 stories to life with these engaging, hands-on reading comprehension craftivities! Each activity is aligned with a weekly selection and integrates writing, comprehension, and fine motor skills to deepen understanding of key concepts like friendship, family, culture, and perseverance. Perfect for centers, bulletin boards, or whole-group lessons, these crafts get students thinking critically and creatively about each story. Includes 5 Story-Based Craftivities: M

Make narrative writing engaging and structured with this comprehensive 2nd Grade Writing Bundle! This writing resource is designed to support your students as they plan, draft, and publish a personal narrative based on the theme "A Day with My Family"—perfectly aligned with Wonders 2020, 2nd Grade Unit 1. This low-prep bundle helps students organize their ideas and build confidence in their writing process through a clear, step-by-step approach. What’s Included: ✅ Model Text with 4 comprehensi

Teach your students about God’s character and how it grows in us with this engaging, 3-day Bible lesson plan on the Fruit of the Spirit! Perfect for elementary classrooms, Christian schools, homeschool, or Sunday School, this resource helps children explore Galatians 5:22–23 in a hands-on and age-appropriate way. This ready-to-use Bible study unit includes everything you need to introduce, teach, and reinforce the 9 Fruit of the Spirit with interactive activities, Bible stories, and pract

Turn your first days of school into an unforgettable mystery adventure with “First Day Freak Out: The Case of the Missing Mascot!” This immersive, 3-day back-to-school unit uses detective-themed missions, team-building games, and mystery clues to teach and reinforce classroom expectations, transitions, and procedures in a fun and meaningful way. Your students become junior detectives, working together to solve the case of the missing class mascot—learning rules, practicing routines, and build

Turn your classroom into a poetry safari! 🐯 Your students will love exploring the rhythm, rhyme, and word music of poetry through this engaging Animal Poetry slideshow. With colorful visuals, simple explanations, and creative prompts, this ready-to-teach lesson introduces key poetry concepts in a fun, easy-to-understand way—perfect for second and third grade learners. ✨ What’s Included Editable PowerPoint / Google Slides presentation Kid-friendly definitions of rhyme, rhythm, and line br

This Graphing Mini Unit is the perfect way to introduce or review data and graphing skills with your 2nd graders! Students will practice collecting, organizing, and representing data using tally charts, picture graphs, and bar graphs while solving real-world problems. What’s Included: ✅ 5-day mini unit lesson plan outline ✅ Tally chart practice worksheets (with space to total and record data) ✅ Picture graph template and cut-and-paste activity ✅ Bar graph worksheet with student-friendly dat

Make literacy hands-on, engaging, and standards-aligned with this Wonders 2020 2nd Grade Unit 2 Week 5 Centers Bundle! Perfect for your weekly small groups, word work, or skill review, this resource includes print-and-go centers, anchor charts, games, and writing pages focused on key phonics, grammar, vocabulary, and poetry concepts. Designed to complement the McGraw-Hill Wonders curriculum, these activities save time while keeping students actively involved in their learning. What’s Incl