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Students learn best when they are engaged. Second graders have now mastered the basics and need a push towards solving more complex word problems, introductory multiplication, and building fluency in reading & writing. Using Education.com's second grade lesson plans will keep students continuously engaged and growing in every academic subject.

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I Have, Who Has? Sight Word Practice

A fun spin on a classic game! This sight word game will help your students with their reading fluency and reinforce foundational reading skills. Students should be fairly fluent in reading Pre-Primer Dolch sight words prior to the lesson.

Inflectional Endings: -ing and -ed

Wondering how to teach your second graders about inflectional endings? Look no further. After playing with dice and learning through song, your students will be adding *-ing* and *-ed* like pros.

One Tree, Three Branches

Get your kids excited about social studies with this comprehensive lesson, which will allow them to make their own visual comparisons of the three branches of the United States government.

STRETCH: Adding Details to Simple Sentences

Inspire creativity in all of your students by giving them the tools they need to transform their simple sentences into longer, detailed descriptions.

Subtraction Stories

Let’s make subtraction real! In this lesson, students dive into three-digit subtraction by solving real-world word problems.

Law of the Land

In this lesson, your students will use their imaginations to picture why all communities need laws. Help them brainstorm the important role that laws and rules play in a variety of communities through these engaging activities.

Water Soluble Science

Your students will enjoy this hands on lesson where they make simple solutions and mixtures. They will have an opportunity to predict and observe solids that dissolve in water.

I Can, You Can, We Can Write Sentences!

Let's write some simple sentences. This creative lesson has students pairing subjects and predicates to create their own expressive statements.

Classifying Objects: Describe It!

This activity keeps your students moving and puts their reasoning skills to the test! An outside scavenger hunt will allow students to find different objects to classify into groups.

Base Ten Block Party

Help your students practice place value with this fun, hands-on base ten block game. Neighborhood block teams compete to win points as they work together to show expanded numbers.

A Solid Investigation

In this lesson, your students will explore the properties of solids and learn to describe them in various ways.

Reflect with Reflexive Pronouns

Reflexive pronouns are like mirrors—they both reflect back to the subject! Use this lesson with your students to give them practice correctly using reflexive pronouns in sentences.

It’s time to make sentences! At the Sentence Cafe, words come together to build stories. Get ready to learn about different parts of speech such as conjunctions, possessive pronouns, articles, and more in this hands-on lesson.

Will one be left out? Students will practice creative problem solving as they strive to answer this question and determine whether a group is even or odd.

The Elements of Fiction: Creating a Story Map

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills as they learn about the characters, setting, and plot of their favorite fiction books by creating a story map.

Synonyms: Using Shades of Meaning

Why walk when you can mosey? In this lesson, students will learn how to use synonyms to express shades of meaning in their writing. Introduce the topic with a book, then brainstorm descriptive options for overused words.

Math Story Problems

Help your students make the connection between what they're learning in the classroom and why they need it in the real world with this lesson on word problems.

Facts and Opinions: What's the Truth?

Use this lesson to teach your students about facts and opinions. Teach them that a certain belief that they have about someone or something is not a fact!

Bottle Blowing Musicians!

Music to my ears! In this hands-on science lesson, your class becomes amateur musicians by learning about pitch and playing tunes on bottles.

Vocabulary Flash Cards

Making flash cards is something done by students of all ages. Help your kids develop good study habits with this lesson plan, which will teach them how to use flash cards and a dictionary to learn new vocabulary.

Subtraction Masters

Your students will be experts in subtraction with regrouping after this lesson that has them work as a class and individually to perfect their skills.

The Paper Bag Princess

In this lesson, students will practice listening comprehension skills after reading “The Paper Bag Princess” together as a class. Afterward, students will role-play, make inferences, and use summarization to strengthen literacy skills.

Mindfulness: A Home Inside

We all have our own home of feelings inside, like a shell that we can tuck into when needed. This we learn from turtles, and now your students can too. This lesson helps students access that place inside full of feelings, emotions, and thoughts.

Help your students' story telling abilities grow with this lesson that helps them recount what happened in a story and has them point out key details.

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