Grade 2 · Reading and writing · Unit
Reading Stories and Writing
6 lessonsabout 3 weeks
The unit ends with three more days: a review day, the unit check, and a day to act on what the check showed.
Unit 3 of 3 in the Grade 2 Reading and Writing Scope and Sequence
What's included in this unit
- 6 lessons in teaching order, each with its objective and a teacher note
- 26 practice pages to print, with an easier and a harder page where available
- 1 classroom tools for the projector
- 2 activities and pages that children do on a screen
- 5 check-up pages to collect
- A worksheet maker for every lesson, for the day you need one more page
The whole unit in one file
Print every page of the unit at once, with the teacher guide first. The guide has one page per lesson: the objective, what to hand out, and the teacher note.
The unit file, the teacher guide, and saved pages are included with the Teacher plan.
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Lessons
Lesson 1
Read a story and answer questions
Children read a short story and answer who, what, where, when, and why questions with details from the text.
- StandardCommon Core RL.2.1
2 class days
- Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
- Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page
Practice on paper
Read and Answer
Reading Comprehension: Story 2
Practice on screen
Lesson 2
Fill in the story's missing words
Children read a whole short story and use what happens in it to choose the word that belongs in each blank.
- StandardCommon Core RF.2.4.c
- StandardCommon Core L.2.4.a
2 class days
- Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
- Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page
Practice on paper
Fill in the Blank Story
Practice on screen
Fern's Clue Garden — Find a Word's Meaning from the Sentence
Lesson 3
Write about a picture
Children write sentences about a picture with sentence starters and a word bank, and then write their own short story about a picture with the word bank only.
- StandardCommon Core L.2.1.f
- Prepares forCommon Core W.2.2
- Prepares forCommon Core W.2.3
2 class days
- Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
- Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Check-up page
Practice on paper
Write About the Picture: What You See
Write About the Picture: Your Own Words
Lesson 4
Retell a story: first, next, then, at the end
Children write what happens in each picture of a story in order, beginning with the time-order word that is given.
- StandardCommon Core W.2.3
3 class days
- Day 1Teach: Story Line · Practice on paper (Core page)
- Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Check-up page
- Day 3Reteach and extend: Act on the check-up pages: reteach the children who are not there yet, with the tool and a new page from the maker; the others take a harder page.
Warm up and teach
Practice on paper
Retell the Story with Starters
Lesson 5
An animal fact sheet
Children choose true facts about an animal, such as what it eats, where it lives, and how it moves, and write them on a fact sheet.
- StandardCommon Core W.2.8
- Prepares forCommon Core W.2.7
2 class days
- Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
- Day 2Practice: More pages from the maker
Practice on paper
Lesson 6
Cursive letters and connections
Children trace and write rows of connected cursive letters (i, t, u, and w) and connect two letters without lifting the pencil (for schools that teach cursive in Grade 2).
2 class days
- Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
- Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Check-up page
Practice on paper
Cursive Letters: i, t, u and w
Cursive Connecting Letters: Joining Two Letters
Unit check: before and after
Two short paper checks made from this unit's own worksheets. Give Check A before you teach the unit and Check B after it, and you can see what changed. Each part belongs to one lesson.
- Part 1: Lesson 1, Read a story and answer questions (1 task)
- Part 2: Lesson 2, Fill in the story's missing words (1 task)
- Part 3: Lesson 5, An animal fact sheet (1 task)
- Part 4: Lesson 6, Cursive letters and connections (1 task)
Not in the check: Lesson 3, Lesson 4. Worksheets that cannot be split into single tasks are left out.
Printing a check counts as a download, like any worksheet.
The answer keys and the teacher pages come with the paid Teacher plan.
This is a classroom check of this unit's lessons. It is not a standardized test, and its points are not a grade.