Activities for English Language Arts in 2nd grade

This activity, "Jack's Challenges," guides users through the engineering design process, encouraging them to design, test, and refine their ideas. It presents various design challenges, such as creating a treehouse, a pollution picker-upper, a robot, an explorer's suitcase, or a vehicle for the future. The activity emphasizes research, imagination, planning, collaboration, and continuous improvement of designs based on feedback.

Design Your Own Book Cover! Inspire imagination and artistic expression in this engaging activity.

This interactive CVC template is a fun and engaging way for students to practice making words. Students can drag and drop the consonants and vowels to create the word to match the picture.

This blank handwriting template is perfect for practicing your writing skills!

Students are curious kiddos. Teach them how to research with the GAS strategy. G - Goals, what do you want to learn? A - Answers, find the answers. S - Share, share what you learned. Knowing what they are supposed to look for helps them stay focused when searching for the answers. Then they can share what they learned by summarizing it real quick on the last page with a video, voice comment, or voice typing.

This blank handwriting template is perfect for practicing your writing skills!

Get your students to write a letter to themselves at the start of the new school year. This is a really easy way to share some powerful messages with them, and it's a great way to boost their confidence and motivation for the rest of their year.

Use the Grid Method to create a student-centered, competency-based framework for any subject.

Try EduProtocols Cyber Sandwich! Perfect for beginners, this partner activity builds reading comprehension. Start with shared reading, then let students take on more responsibility until they're working on their own. Use it again and again to power through texts and boost understanding.

Once the research is done and they know what the presentation is going to showcase, give students this template to help them make a simple presentation in a flash. They can insert images, text, draw on it, and even add stickers to make it fun! Then they can present with confidence!

Journey through books with our handy reading log template! Track your literary adventures and celebrate the joy of reading.

This Dolch words activity is designed to help students improve their reading fluency and vocabulary.

Journey through books with our handy reading log template! Track your literary adventures and celebrate the joy of reading.

Use this template to show off student work and work on proper peer feedback with Sonia's Gallery Walk using the TAG strategy. T - Tell your classmates something you like about their work. A - Ask them a question about it. G - Give a suggestion for how they can improve their work. Students can place a snapshot, screenshot, video, or show their work in the space provided, and then peers can provide multimedia feedback on the side. Use Kami's Split and Merge to create a portfolio collaborative activity or to remove the directions page to assign individually, then merge them all together after the work is done.

Uncover the story's sequence with our easy and fun activity!

For younger students, try the EduProtocols Peanut Butter and Jelly Cyber Sandwich. Begin with shared reading and note-taking. Progress to PB&J scaffold before independent work.