2nd Grade Reading Lesson Plans

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Sequencing Lesson Plan for The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Present this Common Core-aligned lesson plan for the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar to help students practice story…

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Teaching Eric Carle & The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Prior Knowledge: The Three Little Pigs

Encourage your students to activate their prior knowledge with this lesson plan on The Three Little Pigs.

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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Summarizing: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Use a lesson that is designed to expand primary students' summarizing skills using the book Cloudy With a Chance of…

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Sequencing: The Hare and the Tortoise

Use a lesson that is designed to expand the skill of sequencing for primary students, using the text The Hare and the…

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Main Idea: Chrysanthemum

Teach your students how to find the main idea of a story by reading the book Chrysanthemum with your class.

Subjects

Reading

Main Idea and Supporting Details

Reading and Literature

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Making Inferences, Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing

Use a lesson that is designed to teach primary students to make inferences as a reading comprehension with a strategy.…

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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Prior Knowledge: A House is a House for Me

Encourage your students to activate their prior knowledge with this lesson plan on A House is a House for Me.

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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Prior Knowledge: The Popcorn Book

Encourage your students to activate their prior knowledge with this lesson plan on The Popcorn Book.

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Main Idea: The Great Kapok Tree

Finalize your lessons on how to find the main idea of a story by reading the book The Great Kapok Tree with your class.

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Main Idea and Supporting Details

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Questioning, Frog and Toad Together

In this lesson, you will teach students how to use Question-Answer Relationships by reading from Frog and Toad Together,…

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Introducing Questioning, The Mitten

Use a lesson that is designed to introduce primary students to the importance of asking questions before, during, and…

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Story Elements: Danny and the Dinosaur

Use a lesson that introduces primary students to the elements of a story that is read aloud. Students begin by…

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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Predicting: The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear

Use the prediction strategy while reading aloud the book The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry…

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Reading

Reading and Literature

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Making Inferences, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

Use a lesson that is designed to expand primary students' skill of making inferences. The lesson uses the book, Why…

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Caldecott Medal Books & Illustrators

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Primary Question-Answer Relationships

Use a lesson that introduces the Question-Answer Relationship strategy to primary students. Students should be able to…

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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Counting Syllables in Words

Students will count the number of syllables in words with this hands-on activity.

Subjects

Phonics

Reading

Reading and Literature

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A Real Santa Claus Poetry Pack

After reading the Christmas poem A Real Santa Claus by Frank Dempster Sherman, students will complete a cloze activity…

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Reading and Literature

Reading

Poetry

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KWL Chart (Version 2)

This KWL Chart will help students organize what they know, want to know, and will learn by following a lesson. This…

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Reading and Literature

Reading

Language Arts and Writing

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Further Expanding Questioning, Grandfather's Journey

Present this lesson plan for the strategy of asking questions before, during, and after reading using the book…

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Caldecott Medal Books & Illustrators

Award and Prize Winners

Literature

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Visualizing: Follow the Drinking Gourd

Use a lesson that is designed to establish the skill of visualizing for primary students, using the story Follow the…

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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Sequencing: Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

Use a lesson that is designed to establish the skill of sequencing for primary students, using the text Lyle, Lyle,…

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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Summarizing: Nate the Great

Use a lesson that is designed to establish primary students' skills in summarizing a story using the book, Nate the…

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Reading Comprehension

Reading

Reading and Literature

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Phonics Lesson

Phonics teaches students the systematic and predictable relationships between the letters (graphemes) of written…

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Phonics

Reading

Reading and Literature

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Making Inferences, Too Many Tamales

Use a lesson that is designed to help primary students establish the skill of making inferences as a reading…

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Reading

Reading Comprehension

Reading and Literature

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