Second Grade Reading Resources

Discover tons of great ideas for your 2nd grade ELA classroom. You'll find ideas, tips, resources, literacy centers, anchor charts, FREE downloads, fun activities, games, books, and much more that you can use with your 2nd grade students throughout the school year - whether in a classroom or a homeschool setting.
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5 Common Mistakes Teachers Make During Independent Reading Time
Elementary teachers tend to make the same mistakes with independent reading time. This introduction to independent reading will provide teacher tips to get you started! Discover the benefits of independent reading time for kindergarten and 1st grade students. Learn how to set up reading workshop for independent reading activities and strategies to establish expectations for student accountability during literacy centers. You'll also want to download the FREE printable reading anchor charts!
How to Hold Students Accountable During Independent Reading
This introduction to independent reading will provide teacher tips and the tools needed to get started! Discover the benefits of independent reading time for kindergarten and 1st grade students. Learn how to set up reading workshop for independent reading and effective strategies to establish expectations for student accountability during literacy centers. These independent reading activities are guaranteed to keep students engaged and motivated to read!
6 Simple Steps for Teaching Science of Reading Strategies
While elementary teachers have used the Beanie Baby Reading Strategies to help struggling readers during guided reading, there are now better ways to help our students! These new decoding strategies are aligned with the science of reading. The strategies help students with phonics skills such as segmenting, blending, cross checking, and breaking words into syllables. Teaching the strategies is easy with the anchor charts, student bookmarks, strategy sticks, parent notes, and reflection sheets.
Simple Ways to Make Independent Reading More Beneficial to Students
This introduction to independent reading will provide teacher tips and the tools to get started! Discover the benefits of independent reading time for your kindergarten and 1st grade students and how to differentiate for these emergent readers. Learn how to set up your reading workshop for independent reading activities as well as strategies to establish expectations for student accountability during literacy centers. You'll also want to download the FREE printable reading anchor charts!
10 Essential Science of Reading Books
The Science of Reading has been around for years, but recently elementary teachers are discussing what it says about teaching kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students to read. Start learning more about the Science of Reading with these 10 essential professional books! You'll find out ways to plan multisensory phonics activities, small group instruction, and the sequence of phonological awareness skills to teach. Improve your literacy instruction with these resources!
New and Improved Decoding Strategies
While elementary teachers have used the Beanie Baby Reading Strategies to help struggling readers during guided reading, there are now better ways to help our students! These new decoding strategies are aligned with the science of reading. The strategies help students with phonics skills such as segmenting, blending, cross checking, and breaking words into syllables. Teaching the strategies is easy with the anchor charts, student bookmarks, strategy sticks, parent notes, and reflection sheets.
What is The Science of Reading?
What exactly is The Science of Reading? Find out the answers to commonly asked questions regarding the Science of Reading. Kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade teachers will all learn which essential literacy skills to teach their students. You'll also learn the best instructional practices and activities for explicit phonics instruction. Find out about professional books and online resources to learn more about the Science of Reading.
Reading Fluency Practice Task Cards
Reading fluency activities are meant to be fun! Students can use these task cards to practice expressive reading to match how the character is feeling. They will have so much fun practicing reading with expression that they won't realize they're improving their reading comprehension at the same time! The corresponding printable emotions charts can be used as an anchor chart during small groups
Personal Narrative Writing Graphic Organizer
Writing graphic organizers are a crucial part of writer's workshop. These graphic organizers can be used during the prewriting and drafting stages of the writing process. The printable scaffolds provide students with an opportunity to plan out and organize their thoughts before writing a rough draft. The digital graphic organizers can be used during writing workshop to practice various types of writing including summarizing, narrative, persuasive, and expository.
Reading Graphic Organizers File Box
This simple organizational tip for teachers helped me ensure that I'm always prepared for my guided reading groups! Not only that this teacher hack helps you avoid dealing with the copier and helps reduce paper waste. Find out how to create a reading graphic organizers file box to save you time when planning for your reading small groups. This tool will help you always be prepared for reading lessons that teach comprehension skills like main idea, making inferences, connections, and summarizing.
Digital St. Patrick's Day Literacy Center
Do you need an easy phonics literacy center that you can use ALL year long? In this digital Making Words activity, students manipulate the letters in holiday themed words such as the St. Patrick's Day to see what words they can make. Make distance learning FUN for your kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students this year with this engaging word work activity. #thereadingroundup #wordwork #phonicsactivities #stpatrickssactivities
Graphic Organizers to Plan Out Students' Stories
Writing graphic organizers are a crucial part of writer's workshop. These graphic organizers can be used during the prewriting and drafting stages of the writing process. The printable scaffolds provide students with an opportunity to plan out and organize their thoughts before writing a rough draft. The digital graphic organizers can be used during writing workshop to practice various types of writing including summarizing, narrative, persuasive, and expository.
Somebody Wanted But So Then Graphic Organizer
Reading graphic organizers are essential tools for guided reading instruction. Teachers can have students complete these printable graphic organizers during reading small groups about a story they've read. Students can also use the digital forms during independent reading as a reading response sheet to record their thinking. These simple tools help students implement reading comprehension strategies such as making predictions, summarizing, making inferences, and identifying the main idea.
Essential Tools for Effective Reading Minilessons
What reading mini-lesson tools should you be using to plan your instruction? Do you have everything you need to plan mini-lessons? Keep reading to find out the essential tools for planning and implementing more effective reading mini-lessons during your reading workshop! Elementary teachers will also find the FREE printable lesson plan templates valuable when planning your reading minilessons. #thereadingroundup #teacherfreebie #readingminilessons
Reading Small Groups Scheduling Forms
Reading Small Groups are an essential part of the Reading Workshop; however, they can be quite overwhelming. There are many factors to consider when planning guided reading instruction. These simple printable forms for organizing and setting up your reading small groups will make the process a bit less intimidating for you! Find forms to compile literacy assessment data, create groups, and make a guided reading schedule. #thereadingroundup #readingsmallgroups #guidedreading