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The English language has some tricky rules on when to use the definite article "the" and when not to use it. This lesson teaches your students some of the rules for when to use the definite article "the" with geographical nouns.  

Definite Article: 'The' with Geographical Nouns

Sometimes the best way to learn about something is to teach it! This lesson helps second graders become the experts on odd and even numbers as they prepare to teach younger students. 

Teach About Odd & Even Numbers

Even though they may be young, every child is an expert in something! In this lesson, students will learn how to share this expert knowledge with others. 

Sharing Expert Knowledge

Help your students attach meaning between nouns, verbs, and corresponding modifiers! In this interactive lesson, students will be an active part of a noun and verb brainstorm before they use articles and adverbs.

Article and Adverb Attachments

Using charts is a great way to see similarities, differences, and information. This visual lesson will help all students see what can be gained from nonfiction and fiction texts.

Knowledge Charting

In this lesson, your students will use the background knowledge that they have about counting and sorting to graph data. They will practice answering questions about the graph!

Graphing Colored Counters

Cesar Chavez is a perfect example of a champion for social justice. Students will refine inference skills by using background knowledge and evidence from the text, while also discovering an important American civil rights activist.

Inferences in Nonfiction Texts: Cesar Chavez and Farmworker Rights

It&rsquo;s time to make an educated guess! In this lesson, your students will practice using their background knowledge and evidence from the text to make inferences in nonfiction pieces about Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cesar Chavez.

Inference Detectives

Engage students in analysis by examining archetypes in fairy tales. Teach students to identify heroes and villains in fairy tales, examine patterns, and create their own fairy tales to express their knowledge of archetypes. 


Analyzing Archetypes in Fairy Tales

In this lesson, you will use “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to teach students about the butterfly life cycle. After listening to the story read aloud, students will use their knowledge to create their own butterfly life cycles! 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar: A Butterfly's Life Cycle

Teach your students to compare and contrast to boost their comprehension! Use this lesson to teach your students to compare and contrast information from two nonfiction texts on the same topic. 

Nonfiction Comprehension: Compare and Contrast

Use this lesson to teach your students about the appropriate wardrobe for the different seasons. Also, teach them about the wonderful holidays of each season!

Which is Your Favorite Season?

Use this alphabet-focused lesson plan to teach your ELs all about beginning letter sounds.

Starting to Read

Show your Halloween spirit by creating funny, creepy or trick-or-treating themed Diamante poems. Following the poem template, students will review parts of speech while creating festive masterpieces to share with the class. 

Halloween Diamante Poems

Teach your students how to use timelines to organize information from nonfiction texts.


Timelines and Nonfiction Text

By creating an interactive notebook template, kids will help themselves remember the correct ways to use the commonly confused words to, too, two, there, and their. Young writers will love improving their writing skills with this lesson.

Two, Too, or To?

Build your students' knowledge of synonyms to support their vocabulary development. This lesson can stand alone or be a pre-lesson for the *Get Clued in to Context Clues* lesson.

Synonyms Give Clues

This lesson combines students' knowledge of US geography and their creative writing skills in one fun activity!

Switching U.S. States

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! 

Facts and Opinions: What's the Truth?

Use this lesson to explicitly teach unknown vocabulary words to students using structured language practice strategies. This can be used a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

Vocabulary Focus

This lesson combines historical facts and creative writing to engage students in exercises that enhance both vocabulary and social studies knowledge.

Journey on the Underground Railroad

Your students will solve and create shape riddles while practicing their knowledge of shape attributes.

Geometry Puzzles

Use this lesson to teach your students about the planets that are the farthest away from the sun! Teach them about the planets with rings and the materials inside the rings. 

Explore the Outer Planets

Pop into place! This lessons builds your students&#39; knowledge of numbers, their place value, and how to write them correctly.

Popping Numbers

This tasty lesson will teach second graders about fractions using cookies. 

Cookie Fractions Fun!

Teach your students to recognize and use the associative property of multiplication.

Associative Property of Multiplication

Teach your students to recognize and use the distributive property of multiplication.

Distributive Property

Teach your students to multiply by multiples of 10, up to 1,000.

Multiply by 1,000

Let's practice reading nonfiction texts! In this lesson, teach your ELs about identifying and describing text features. This lesson can be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Formatting Text Features.

Understand Text Features

Teach your students to round to the thousands place using number lines. 

Rounding with Number Lines

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