All Lessons
Answer Who, When, & Where Questions (Informational)
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational lesson covers the answering of who, when, and where questions about the informational text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the text, answer questions about key details, and verify the answer by referring back to the text.
Identify the Main Purpose of a Text
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational lesson covers identifying the main purpose of the informational text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the text, and then determine if the purpose of the text is to answer, explain, or describe.
Identify the Author's Purpose
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on identifying an author's purpose for writing a text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify if the author's purpose for writing a text is to entertain, inform or persuade the reader. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Restate Details from Text (Where, When, & How Questions)
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on how to restate details from the text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students answer where, when, and how questions to restate details from the text. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Recognize Cause-and-Effect Relationships
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on recognizing cause-and-effect relationships. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the cause and effect in sentences and use the clue word "because" to check if they are correct . In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Follow Written Instructions
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on how to follow written instructions The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students follow steps that tell how to make or do something using steps or clue words such as first, next, then, last, etc. In addition to the lesson, there are five pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Interpret Information From a Chart
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on interpreting information from charts. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students learn the organization of a chart and how to interpret the information provided. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Interpret Information from Diagrams
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on interpreting information from diagrams. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students learn the organization of different diagrams and how to interpret the information provided. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify Text that Uses Sequential Order
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on identifying text that uses sequential order. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students look for clue words that identify sequence (first, last, then, next), and then circle yes or no if the sentence uses sequence. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Identify the Main Topic of a Multi-Paragraph Text
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This Common Core reading informational text lesson focuses on determining the main topic in a text. In this lesson, students will determine the main topic of a text and then the key details that support that main topic. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
Answer What, Why, and How Questions
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This lesson is a part of the Launch to Literacy program.
Identify the Focus of a Paragraph
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This lesson is a part of the Launch to Literacy program.
Compare & Contrast Two Texts on the Same Topic
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This lesson is a part of the Launch to Literacy program.
Maintain a Focus in Writing
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing strategies lesson focuses on maintaining focus in writing. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use the central idea and details of a passage to determine other details that belong or do not belong in the passage. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Write a Friendly Letter
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing applications lesson focuses on how to write a friendly letter. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students practice using the parts of a letter (date, greeting, body, closing, signature) to write a letter to a friend or family member. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Group Related Ideas
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing strategies lesson focuses on grouping related ideas. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use the central idea to correctly group related ideas. This lesson uses the grouping of ideas to write short paragraphs. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Plan and Write an Opinion Piece
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing lesson covers how to plan an opinion piece. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will develop a planning chart that asks two questions about a given topic. The two questions identify their opinion on the topic, and then at least two reasons why they think that.