Grade 2 Literacy Lessons
Dive into our free lessons and activities! Your students will build their knowledge with popular fairy tales and stories and deepen their understanding of phonics, spelling, grammar, and writing.
Grades: 2nd Grade
Skills Lessons
These lessons focus on learning various spellings, with an emphasis on vowel sounds. Students read one- and two-syllable words, as well as contractions. They practice reading and spelling a number of high-frequency Tricky Words. Students also learn about the use of quotation marks, and they begin to receive instruction in the writing process as they craft narrative and opinion pieces.
- What's the Word?
- Magic ‘e’
- Basic Code: Review /ae/ › ‘a_e’ and /ie/ › ‘i_e’
- Basic Code: Review /oe/ › ‘o_e’ and /ue/ › ‘u_e’
- Spelling Alternatives: Review /ee/ › ‘ee’ and ‘ea’
- Review: Tricky Words and Quotation Marks
- Writing: Plan a Fictional Narrative
- Writing: Draft a Fictional Narrative
- Writing: Edit a Fictional Narrative
- Grammar: Commas and Quotation Marks
- Grammar: Quotation Marks and Contractions
- Writing: Draft a Narrative Book Report
- Writing: Edit a Narrative Book Report
- Writing: Edit and Write a Final Copy
Fortunes and Feats: Fairy Tales and Tall Tales
Get swept up in magical fairy tales and larger-than-life legends, from “Beauty and the Beast” to “Paul Bunyan.” Students strengthen literacy skills like summarizing and comparing characters while exploring story features like dialogue and structure—with supports for writing and speaking woven throughout. Explore the Teacher Guide in the domain overview to help you prepare! Want to learn more about Amplify CKLA? Explore the curriculum here.
- Domain 1 Overview
- The Fisherman and His Wife
- The Emperor’s New Clothes
- Beauty and the Beast, Part I
- Beauty and the Beast, Part II
- Paul Bunyan
- Pecos Bill
- John Henry
- Casey Jones
- The Magic Pitcher
- The Fisherman and The Woodcutter