Second grade ideas

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Just found out you're teaching second grade! Here's a quick start guide!

Second graders need to have hands-on practice with ELA skills in a meaningful way. This post shares some fun 2nd Grade literacy center ideas.

If you teach elementary students, you probably have a word wall, but a word wall doesn't meet the needs of all students. I'm sharing the reasons I stopped using a word wall and what I do instead in this post. Your second-grade and third-grade students may have more writing success with word wall alternatives like personal student dictionaries. Grab free differentiated word lists and read about the word wall alternatives that my 2nd and 3rd-grade class loved! #wordwall #studentdictionary

Friday letters offer so many insights into your students and keep parents connected to your classroom. See how I teach students to manage them themselves.

You students will love this free spelling game. It's a great way to have students practice spelling in an engaging way...

Use low-prep writing crafts to get students excited about writing and showcase everything they have learned.

Visualizing the text is such an important reading strategy used for building your students’ reading comprehension. This reading teacher's blog post shares teaching tips, strategies, activities, and resources for teaching visualizing in your classroom (reading crafts, posters and graphic organizers). Helpful for second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade teachers.

Fun 2nd grade writing prompts

Does your sentence have SWAG?

These easy and fun reading activities are great to have on hand when teaching kids how to read. Having no prep reading activities ready to go will save...

Tips, tricks, and materials for creating and using engaging anchor charts in the K-2 classroom throughout the school year.

Great anchor chart for landforms