Read Works
Read Works: All About Money
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the topic of money. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Investigating Nonfiction Part 3: Independent and Guided Reading
This article provides tips for using nonfiction with guided reading and independent reading. The following strategies are shared: ways to help kids select "just right" nonfiction books; lessons to use with nonfiction in guided reading...
University of Manchester
Children's University of Manchester: Word Literacy: English Language Timeline
Students move through the timeline to read about the history and development of the English language.
Read Works
Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Figurative Language
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Once in a Blue Moon by Nicola Morgan to learn to identify and interpret the meaning of figurative language in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching,...
Read Works
Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Compare/contrast Genres
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use fiction and nonfiction books from a classroom library to identify the similarities and differences between fiction and nonfiction and to create a Venn diagram...
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Voice
[Free Registration/Login Required] A set of two lesson plans designed to teach students to describe the author's voice in two poems and compare voice in four short works. Includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Predicting and Gathering Information With Nonfiction Texts
Contains plans for eight short lessons that introduce nonfiction texts to second grade students. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...
Other
Match the Memory: Formal vs Informal Language
Match the Memory Interactive game where players match a word to either formal or informal language.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Extraordinary Elephants
Determine which word is the synonym of the given word then choose it to feed the elephant.
Read Works
Read Works: Welcome Back!
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares advice about how to make the first day of school a great one. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
Read Works
Read Works: Alyssa Wears a Bow Tie
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a fictional narrative about a girl who chooses to show her creativity by wearing a bow tie on the first day of school. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
Other
Smart Words: Famous Idioms and Meaning
This is a list of the 50 most commonly used idioms and their meanings.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Plurals and Spelling Rules
The rules for spelling plural words and using them properly in English are made fun and easy with this BBC Skillswise worksheet for students.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 17 (Low Beginning Level) [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of basic verb tenses that are needed in beginning English.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 19 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the understanding of words associated with jobs, actions, and places.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 17 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the understanding of words associated with jobs, actions, and time.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 16 (High Beginning Level) [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the understanding of words associated with jobs and places.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 6 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the words associated with family relationships. Descriptive vocabulary words are also assessed on this quiz.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess vocabulary words that are adjectives.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1 (High Beginning Level) [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the words associated with family relationships. Vocabulary words that are adjectives are also assessed.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 3 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the recall of words associated with places and vocabulary words that describe.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 2 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the application of the past verb tense, a topic covered in Level 2 English.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 2 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the application of the present progressive verb tense, a topic covered in Level 2 English. Singular and plural subjects are included in the sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 2 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the application of the present progressive verb tense, a topic covered in Level 2 English.