Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Building Research Skills 2 3
Check out this site to learn more about building research skills for grades 2-3. This site offers suggestions for activities that will sharpen your abilities.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Everyday Use
A learning module that begins with "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Men and Women Use Different Scales to Weigh Moral Dilemmas
A learning module that begins with "Men and Women Use Different Scales to Weigh Moral Dilemmas" by Poncie Rutsch, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ready, Set, Research!
Students will have the opportunity to do research on a weather topic in which they are interested. This lesson will teach the students how to use dictionaries, encyclopedias, resource books and the Internet to find facts about the...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Use and Teach Content Vocabulary Daily
Copying definitions from the dictionary and memorizing words for tests is not sufficient work for students to master and retain new vocabulary. This article helps teachers choose which words are most important to teach and suggests...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Rather Unlikely Dictionary Entries
After studying dictionary entries including structure and writing style, create unlikely dictionary entries for things in your life. If you really can't think of any, press the button on the generator to get a few ideas. Do your best to...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Kindergarten Opposites Activities
This article discusses how important learning opposites is to young children. It offers ideas to teach opposites including making a book, using online printable pages, and using exercise.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Lesson Plans for Forming Possessives
This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.
Read Works
Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 2nd Grade Unit: Glossary
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which learners learn to use a glossary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by Robin Johnson and Bobbie Kalman and...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "First They Came" by Martin Niemoller
A learning module that begins with "First They Came" by Martin Niemoller, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Lesson on Teaching Compound Words
This lesson focuses on teaching compound words and is specifically designed for second grade; however, it could be adjusted for other grades.