$5 - $10 2nd Grade English Language Arts Resources (by price, low to high)

No prep! Writing prompts are an excellent way to provide students with fun and engaging writing activities! There are 600 writing prompts ranging from 40 everyday, seasonal, and holiday topics. Students can use the word banks included at the bottom of each choice board!

You will always have engaging grab-and-go writing activities for lessons and sub plans with this packet of prompts! Here are just a few benefits:

Benefits of Writing Prompts

• Helps improve writing skills - By regularly practicing with writing prompts, students can gradually improve their writing skills and become more confident writers.
• Encourages creativity - Writing prompts provide a structure for creative expression, often sparking new ideas and fresh perspectives.
• Develops critical thinking skills - Responding effectively to a prompt requires students to think critically and analyze the prompt itself. 
• Helps to overcome writer's block - A prompt gives students the structure and focus needed to write their best work! Writing prompts guide students who may struggle to structure their ideas or who tend to freeze up when faced with a blank page.
• Fun and easy assessments - Use writing prompts to identify areas where students need further support or guidance.

Everyday

Birthday • Beach Day • Food • Rainy Day • Picnic • Weather • Garden • Library • Superhero • Carnival • Space Life • Animals • Ocean Animals • Playground • Vacation • Pirate Life • Fairy Tale • Teachers

Transportation

Airplanes • Trains • Cars • Boats

Seasonal

Spring • Summer • Autumn • Winter • Back to School • Easter Bunny • Pumpkin Patch • Apple Orchard • North Pole

Holidays

July 4th • Halloween • Thanksgiving • Happy New Year! • Christmas • St. Patrick's Day • Valentine's Day • Mother's Day • Father's Day

Not only will using writing prompts help get your students excited about writing, but it will also help them practice and improve their skills. By focusing on specific areas such as grammar, punctuation, and spelling, your students will hone their technique and produce well-written pieces of work. They will also be able to develop their unique voice and style – something essential for any writer!

Check out our blog post Writing Prompts Your Students Will Love for more tips and inspiration!

Embark on a 12-month musical journey through time with the Classical Journey Bundle! ♬

Add a touch of mindful music to any season, holiday, or composer unit study. With over 150 categorized classical pieces, the Classical Journey Bundle offers an engaging printable for every occasion. Each month unlocks a curated selection of themed classical music pieces, perfectly paired with a holiday or season!

Colorful Semantics is a structured language intervention designed to support the development of language and communication skills, particularly in children with speech and language difficulties. This resource includes sentence making boards for children to plan and write sentences using the cards. It also includes all 4 sets of color coded cards for who, what doing, what and where. There are 354 cards in total.

Why do you need this?

Colorful Semantics uses color coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence and how to join them together in the correct order. By visually representing each part of the sentence with a specific color, learners can better understand the structure and meaning of sentences, as well as the relationships between words.

How and when might you use this?

This approach is often implemented through a variety of interactive and hands-on activities, such as sentence building games, storytelling, and picture-based exercises. It can be tailored to the individual needs and abilities of learners, making it suitable for use in both classroom settings and speech and language clinics.

What’s included?

· 354 Cards for 'Who', 'What', 'Where' and 'What doing'

· 4 different versions of sentence support cards with lines to write sentences

· 4 different versions of sentence support cards with handwriting lines

If you like this product here are some other things you may be interested in…

* Colorful Semantics Who, What, Where, what doing Cards

* Colorful Semantics what like, who to, who with, how and when cards

* Colorful Semantics Sentence Making Support

* Colorful Semantic Visual Cue Cards

This product includes eight (8) interactive mini books to learn and practice digraphs.

• Sh
• Ph
• Wh
• Ch
• Kn
• Qu
• Th
• Wr

For each book there is a page with cut outs (5 strips) with pictures of the mystery words inside each mini book.

There is a "Step-by-step" slide on how to cut and fold each one of the mini books.

This product is design to be glued onto a notebook but you can also use it as a practice booklet that kids can take home or practice with a partner in the classroom.

ABC Order Activities and Worksheets!

This AUTUMN FALL themed ABC ORDER set includes 2 ABC Order activities; CUT AND PASTE WORKSHEETS & AN ABC ORDER LITERACY CENTER FOR FALL. Give your students plenty of alphabetical order practice with this complete FALL set. This is a hands-on product that will keep students engaged. It comes with an extension of sentence writing and editing for early finishers.

You get 6 ABC order worksheets with 6 matching sentence writing worksheets.

You also get an ABC Order Literacy Center with picture cards A-Z and 2 open ended recording sheets. Great for independent practice, morning work, substitute teachers, homework, Literacy Centers and distance learning packets.

HOW TO USE

• Distance learning
• Morning Work, Bell Ringers
• Substitute Plans
• Independent work
• Literacy Centers
• Homework
• Skill Practice or Review

WHAT'S INCLUDED

FALL ABC Order Worksheets

• 1 Suggestion page
• 6 ABC Order Cut and Paste worksheets
• 6 Companion worksheets for extending the work with writing sentences

FALL ABC Order Literacy Center

• 1 Suggestion page
• 2 open ended recording sheets
• 26 A-Z Back to School themed cards to alphabetize

DIRECTIONS FOR USE

WORKSHEETS

NO-PREP, PRINT & GO! You can use just the cut and paste pages or also pass out the additional sentence writing page that matches. The second page can also be used for early finishers. The ABC cut and paste worksheet has the alphabet listed as a reference. The sentences page has an editing checklist on it.

LITERACY CENTER

Cut apart the 26 picture/word cards and place in center. Print one or both recording sheets and place in center. Students choose 6 picture/word cards, copy those 6 words onto their cut and paste sheet, then complete their worksheet. If you place the second worksheet at the station, students will choose 4 of their words to practice sentence writing and editing.

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Make learning exciting and interactive with our Cut & Paste Word Matching Worksheets! Designed for young learners, these worksheets are perfect for practicing vocabulary and improving visual recognition skills.

Each worksheet features a variety of colorful images alongside corresponding words. Children will enjoy the hands-on experience of cutting out the words and pasting them next to the correct images. This activity not only enhances their understanding of words and their meanings but also develops fine motor skills.

Ideal for classrooms, homeschooling, or fun learning at home, our Cut & Paste Worksheets provide a stimulating way to reinforce language skills in an enjoyable format. Watch as children eagerly engage in matching words to images and gain confidence in their reading abilities.

Key Features:

• Colorful images and clear, easy-to-read words
• Promotes vocabulary development and visual recognition
• Encourages fine motor skills through cutting and pasting activities
• Suitable for early learners and elementary students alike

Bring the joy of learning to life with our Cut & Paste Word Matching Worksheets! Perfect for sparking curiosity and fostering a love for learning words and their meanings.

What's included:

1. 17 pages of verb worksheets in pdf. (included 134 verbs-refer to thumbnails for full verb list)

TeachShare H5-verb cut & paste

Perfect for Independent Learning!

Introducing the Ultimate ESL Workbook for Beginners!

Designed specifically for young learners or beginners in English as a Second Language (ESL), this interactive workbook is an excellent tool for developing foundational language skills. With a focus on seasons, clothes, and numbers, it’s perfect for students to work on independently, reinforcing their understanding of essential vocabulary and concepts.

Features:

Seaons: Engaging activities to help students learn and identify basic seasons, with visual aids and practice exercises.

Clothes: Interactive pages to teach and reinforce clothes recognition, including activities that help students differentiate between various geometric forms.

Numbers: Fun exercises to familiarize students with the numbers, including sequencing and calendar activities.

Interactive Elements: Includes cut-and-paste activities, matching exercises, and drawing prompts to keep students engaged.

Details:

• Format: PDF downloadable file
• Pages: 25+ pages of interactive content
• Level: Ideal for beginners, suitable for young learners and early ESL students
• Includes: Answer key and instructional tips for educators

Why Choose Our ESL Workbook for Beginners?

• Engaging and Interactive: Designed to captivate and motivate students with hands-on activities that make learning fun.
• Independent Learning: Perfect for self-paced study, allowing students to practice and reinforce their knowledge independently.
• Comprehensive Content: Covers essential vocabulary and concepts to build a strong foundation in English.
• Easy to Use: Clear instructions and structured activities make it accessible for young learners.

Equip your students with the essential skills they need to succeed in learning English with this engaging and interactive ESL workbook. Download now and watch their language skills flourish!

Vibrant and bright ABC posters with real world, non-fiction pictures that align with the Science of Reading best practice for letter/sound connection.

Perfect for young learners and ELL students learning the sounds of the alphabet and how to correctly form the letters.

Posters provide an in class visual for correct letter formation. Use daily as a drill to reinforce letter/sound correspondence.

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Students love learning about wetland animals! This resource includes realistic pictures of 24 animals with 3 to 4 sentences of informational text about each one. They are perfect for the lower grades by themselves and will pique students' interest in the upper grades. There are student-friendly website suggestions for research, graphic organizers for collecting research (2 levels), wetland-themed writing papers on three levels, and more!

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⭐ Tundra Animals Information Cards and Research Project

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⭐ Ocean Animals Information Cards and Research Project

⭐ Grassland Animals Information Cards and Research Project

⭐ Forest and Mountain Animals Information Cards and Research Project

⭐ Desert Animals Information Cards and Research Project

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Make a book the easy way with 53 slides to color and use for factual or fictional writing. Winter themed images with space for text writing and speaking (Speech Bubbles). Includes: 5 Title pages 5 "The End" pages 1 Directions for Use 42 black and white winter images/handouts Excellent for assessing standardized writing skills, such as inferencing, working with the writing process, peer workshopping, expository writing, narratives, or fictional stories. Easy to follow directions with several options for book binding.

Looking for a way to help your students practice the skill of decoding? With blending lines, you can do just that. This quick no-prep digital or paper activity can have your students practicing decoding (sounding out) words in a snap. These blending lines are phonics focused and are great for whole-group or small-group learning. I’ve based these lists on Wiley Blevins’s suggestions for blending lines.

In this resource you will find:

3 different variations of blending lines for the phonics skill. Each variation offers a little change of words and a higher level of challenging words and sentences.

Each variation is offered in:

· digital

· paper, full sheet, with or without guides

· paper, double sheet, with or without guides.

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This is a collection of 5 movie watch-alongs to go with Pixar's Wall-E! The 5 watch-alongs focus on Main Idea and Theme, Characters, Story Elements, Sequence of Events, and Point of View and Attitude.

These are to help with keeping students engaged during the movie, practice for each skill, and to help grow students' comprehension. I hope you enjoy it! Please rate and review.

Make teaching spelling and decoding fun with Magic Squares for Phonics! They are engaging and align with the Science of Reading.   Your students will be spelling, decoding, and building their vocabulary while having fun! 

Students will develop orthographic mapping skills by connecting sounds to letters when spelling and writing words. This will in turn build stronger word recognition skills.

This product includes 27 low-prep Magic Square boards that are perfect for practicing encoding and decoding short vowel words and nonsense words.  Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make these activities perfect for centers or independent practice. You could even use it with your whole class or an extension activity!

These boards were created with early readers and writers in mind. Instead of random letters like other word games, the letters on each board are specifically chosen to set the student up for success. 

Here’s what you’ll get:

• 27 different Magic Squares for short vowels to print out and use!
• CVC, Blends, Digraphs, and Floss words
• BLANK board to customize for your needs

Ideas for use:

• This resource provides engaging activities in a printable PDF. 
• The format is perfect if you have daily reading and writing stations or time for independent practice.  
• The focus or target concept is centered on the board with a grey background. 
• My online classroom uses the activity for our session warm-up or a brain break. 
• Print and laminate to use over and over. 

Why your students will love this:

Your students will love practicing reading, writing, and spelling in a new way during reading stations or independent practice.  They’ll be engaged and having fun while playing with words and learning new words with short vowel sounds.

Prep is quick and easy…

Print the pages or upload them to your online classroom, and you’re ready for a fun and engaging class!

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Keywords:

Vocabulary practice, science of reading, orthographic mapping, vocabulary activities, writing practice, spelling practice, daily warm-up, writing centers, word play, word games

A complete Bilingual Book!

Intended for Lower Levels and Children!

More than 50 pages!!!

These verb posters for your Word Walls can also make great flash cards for ELL/ENL/ESL students as well as young readers. They are also great for a quick reference for students learning frequently used verbs...plus a few extras! These vibrant and informative verb posters are the perfect resource for any classroom, at school or at home! Plus, they can be used as a digital presentation or paper posters/flash cards!

Each poster (8.5x11) is designed to help students easily access and understand common verbs, enhancing their language learning experience.

There are two sets of the same cards.

1. English verbs with pictures in color
2. English verbs with pictures in black and white
3. Conjugations of each verb with the personal pronouns I, you, he, she, we, they
4. Posters in color for just the pronouns with a picture
5. Posters in black and white for just the pronouns with a picture

Also, I have included instructions for how to print the posters so that they are flash card size.

Features:

Quick Reference: Keep essential verb information at your students' fingertips. Perfect for in-class activities, homework help, or quick review sessions.

Paper-Saving Option: Save paper and resources by printing multiple posters on one page (see settings when you print). This eco-friendly option makes it easy to create multiple sets for your classroom or for individual student use. You can also print up to 9 slides on a sheet!

Detailed Content: Each poster includes: all of the personal pronouns and their forms of the verb to reinforce language structure for comprehensive understanding. A colorful picture is included, representing the phrase to aid visual learners and make learning fun. There are also black and white pictures on the second set if you would like to save colored ink.

Verbs Included:

1. to have
2. to be
3. to want
4. to go
5. to see
6. to say
7. to search
8. to take
9. to put
10. to leave
11. to hear
12. to find
13. to be able
14. to give
15. to give
16. to make
17. to know
18. to like
19. to walk
20. to speak
21. to run
22. to eat
23. to drink
24. to fly
25. to jump
26. to write
27. to write
28. to scream
29. to watch
30. to cry
31. to throw
32. Personal Pronouns - I, you, he, she, we, they

Why Choose These Posters?

Engaging and Interactive: The colorful pictures and clear layouts make these posters visually appealing and engaging for students of all ages.

Versatile Usage: Ideal for classroom walls, bulletin boards, student binders, or as part of interactive notebooks. These posters can be used in various teaching scenarios to enhance learning.

Easy to Use: Simply print, laminate (if desired), and display! Students will appreciate the easy access to important verb conjugations and meanings.

Who Can Benefit?

Teachers: Enhance your teaching materials and provide students with a reliable resource for verb conjugations and meanings.

Students: Gain a quick and easy reference for studying, homework, and in-class activities.

Parents: Support your child's learning at home with these handy reference posters. Make learning verbs easy, engaging, and accessible with these beautifully designed quick reference posters. Great for homeschooling! Wonderful for young children learning to read, whether or not their native language is English.

Perfect for any classroom, these posters will become an invaluable part of your teaching toolkit!

Engage your students in mastering long a spelling patterns with this easy, low-prep center activity pack, specifically designed for ai and ay words! Ideal for first and second graders, these activities make phonics practice fun and effective, reinforcing reading, writing, and word-recognition skills.

What’s Inside:

• Differentiated Reading Passage: A leveled reading passage filled with ai and ay words, helping students practice fluency and reinforce phonics skills.
• Sentence Writing Activity: Sentence-building exercises that use ai and ay words, perfect for practicing spelling, sentence structure, and creativity.
• Cut and Paste Activity: Hands-on sorting where students cut, sort, and paste ai and ay words into the correct categories.
• Word Unscramble: Engaging worksheets where students unscramble ai and ay words, boosting decoding skills and word recognition.
• And More!: Additional phonics activities to reinforce ai and ay patterns, including word hunts and silly sentence challenges.

Why Teachers Love It:

• Low/No Prep: Just print and go! Perfect for literacy centers, small groups, or independent work.
• Differentiated Activities: Designed for various learning levels with flexible options to meet each student's needs.
• Standards-Aligned Phonics Practice: A fun and meaningful way to support phonics standards while building confidence in reading and writing.

This activity pack provides an easy, effective way to help your students master long a spelling patterns. Add it to your teaching toolkit today!

One-stop shop for Valentine's Day! Valentine crafts, writing, and math to keep your students engaged! Easy, low-prep, differentiated activities to make planning easier. Great for sub-plans!

What you get:

• Valentine Writing and Craft Activity complete with writing prompts
• Differentiated Math Packet, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division
• Valentine's Day editable bookmarks, black and white and color
• Valentine's Day Digital Activity slides

Small Group Lesson Plans for Fluency practice Long A- AI AY Word Families

AI AY fluency practice for First Grade Reading Groups, made EASY, consistent, effortless, and engaging! Take the guesswork, hours of planning, and the headache out of prepping for your small group reading instruction! These are more than just worksheets, they are a comprehensive approach to teaching the ai ay and eigh word families and increasing students' reading fluency.

What you get:

A week's worth of AI AY fluency practice with evidence-based, classroom

tested word sorts, segmenting, blending, writing,

fluency, assessment and even nonsense word fluency practice!

Word Families included:

ai

ay

eigh

Also includes sample small group schedule and

tracking sheets to make planning your small groups

EASY!

*Aligns with Unit 5 Week 3 Reach for Reading for First Grade!

Thanks for checking out these ai ay worksheets for your fluency practice!

These daily August holiday nonfiction reading passages are perfect for adding some engaging informational texts into your classroom.. These reading comprehension worksheets have your students answering text dependent questions and writing opinions based on the text. Your third graders and fourth graders will beg to know what today's holiday is. These holiday informational texts cover topics that students get excited about!

Do your students struggle to be engaged in nonfiction and information texts? Look no further! It seems like every day is National (insert cool thing here) Day. I decided to look into these holidays to bring some fun and excitement back to informational passages. The best part about these units though... they are EASILY enrichable!

What's Included:

❤️ 31 informational passages

❤️ 31 answer keys

❤️ fun topics

❤️ short-answer written responses

❤️ text-dependent questions

Please consider that not every day has a holiday that is school appropriate. Not every holiday remains on the same day each year.

Skills covered:

⭐ asking and answering questions

⭐ main idea

⭐ key details

⭐ making connections

⭐ context clues

⭐ author's POV vs reader's POV

How and When to use these Passages

→ reading warm-ups

→ test prep

→ informational text writing

→ whole group instruction

→ partner work

→ small group

→ literacy centers

→ guided reading groups

→ homework

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OREO Opinion Writing Bulletin Board

Updated 2024! Includes new graphics, fonts, and color options!

Writing can be a challenge, especially because there are SO many rules! One of the fun ways I introduce writing styles to my students is pair it with a concept they understand. When I came across the OREO technique for teaching opinion writing, it was a hit and I never went back! Displaying this bulletin board is a great way to provide a visual for students to remember the parents of this strategy.

Introducing our newest fictional reading passage "Tommy's Thanksgiving Adventure" designed specifically for learners in autism and MD classrooms this November! This inclusive reading comprehension activity is thoughtfully created to cater to the unique needs of special education students.

• The text is supported with symbolated visuals to provide extra support and enhance understanding.
• Your students will have the opportunity to practice their comprehension skills through 10 WH- questions that align with the text.
• Each WH- question comes with 3 visual answer choices, ensuring that learners have a variety of options to choose from.
• This resource is an ideal tool for engaging young learners in fiction texts, promoting reading comprehension, and facilitating small group language arts instruction. Visual supports are seamlessly embedded throughout to enhance learning.
• Special education teachers will find this resource to be an essential addition to their teaching toolkit. It is designed to support the unique needs of students in autism and MD classrooms, ensuring a meaningful and effective learning experience.
• The activity can be laminated for extended use, allowing students to write directly on it with a dry erase marker. Alternatively, answer choices can be cut out to support learners with fine motor skill limitations.

Make learning fun and accessible with "Tommy's Thanksgiving Adventure". It's the perfect language arts tool to help your special education students develop essential reading and comprehension skills while engaging with a topic that's relevant and meaningful. Don't miss out on this valuable resource for your classroom!

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