These two nonfiction reading passages give elementary students a closer look at Halloween and Día de los Muertos—two fall holidays often grouped together but with very different histories and traditions….
A number line is a powerful tool for teaching a variety of mathematical concepts. They are a great visual tool for helping students understand and learn single-digit, two-digit, and three-digit…
Teach students about plant and animal habitats with a Land and Water Habitats SORT! This sort is aligned with the Next Generation Science Stations (NGSS) for Second Grade. In this…
As students move through opinion writing, they eventually reach a point where stating an opinion and giving reasons is no longer the hard part. The next challenge is helping them…
Children love sharing their opinions. They try to convince parents to buy a toy, choose a TV show, or serve dessert first. In second grade, students already know what they…
The Next Generation Science Standards are complicated and challenging to unpack. They are three-dimensional and include both content knowledge and performance expectations. The NGSS website gives us some information on how to…
Would you like some FREE Science Stations for your elementary classroom? We create rigorous science curriculum for second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade and we want to…
Engaging second-grade science stations that follow the NGSS science standards for states of matter. These properties of matter science stations will have your 2nd-grade students focused on reading and writing…
Introducing opinion writing can feel tricky. Students often have strong opinions, but they don’t always understand why they are writing them or how opinions work in an academic setting. Before…
Do your students have difficulty counting money? Coin counting is an important part of solidifying early math skills, but it can be tricky for children to master. Teaching your second-grade…
How do you teach opinion writing in your second-grade classroom? These writing strategies will help you teach students to use academic language when expressing their opinion and then turn that in excellently written paragraphs.
Second graders are at a sweet spot with reading. They are ready for longer stories, strong characters, and running jokes that carry across chapters, but many are not quite ready…