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  • Two worksheet pages titled Rock Erosion and Weathering, featuring images of cliffs and rock formations, explore earth's systems under the heading Processes That Shape the Earth Activities on a blue background.
    Earth Science | English Learners

    Processes that Shape the Earth – Earth’s Systems Unit

    An Earth Science Unit that includes a variety of activities to scaffold the content for your second-grade learners.  Each standard focuses on one comprehension skill.  There is a pre-reading activity to build background knowledge…

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  • Three cards illustrate multiplication arrays using handwritten words, dots, and arrows. Below, bold white text on blue says, Creative ways to teach array in math multiplication with arrays in rows and columns.
    Math | English Learners

    Teach Multiplication Arrays Columns and Rows by Developing Academic Language

    As students start learning multiplication facts, modeling multiplication arrays in rows and columns is an effective strategy to visualize what is happening in the problems. Let’s explore fun and engaging…

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  • A collage of eight Read Aloud Chapter Books for Second Graders, featuring favorites like Goonie Bird Greene, The Borrowers, The Penderwicks, Lulu and the Brontosaurus, two Kate DiCamillo picks, Because of Winn-Dixie, and Mr. Popper’s Penguins.
    Reading | English Learners

    26 Read Alouds for 2nd Grade That Build Comprehension and a Love of Stories

    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…

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  • A classroom bulletin board titled Grammar Wall Cards displays labeled cards with grammar terms like punctuation, period, comma, question mark, noun, verb, subject, predicate, and more on a green background.
    Writing | English Learners

    How to use a Grammar Wall in Elementary Classrooms

    As I worked through grammar and spelling activities with my students, I noticed they kept forgetting the names of grammar terms like apostrophes, contractions, and compound words. These are genuinely…

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  • A classroom anchor chart helps scaffold social studies writing as it uses sentence stems to compare urban and rural areas. Green and pink text at the bottom details land use for both areas, supporting students in social studies tasks.
    Writing | Differentiation | English Learners | Social Studies

    How to Teach Compare and Contrast Text Structure in Social Studies Using Urban and Rural Areas – Scaffolded Writing Task for English Learners

    Scaffold student writing in the content areas by providing them with word lists, a way to organize the words and sentence frames. Find out how I help my English learners and struggling writers to organize their thoughts when comparing and contrasting urban and rural environments.

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