2nd Grade

Strong writing skills help children soar! Clear, concise communication benefits kids throughout school and into adulthood. Spectrum® Writing for grade 2 guides blossoming writers through the writing, proofreading, and editing process to create...

Thinking Kids'® Math is a fun and hands-on approach to learning math! Increase your second grader’s critical thinking and problem solving skills with the colorful, interactive activities. Each activity supports early learning standards and...

Build attitudes of respect and caring, reduce problem behaviors, empower students to solve problems, and educate the whole child with this flexible, user-friendly activity guide. The lessons' literature-based connections allow teachers to "build in"...

It's time to make learning the English language fun for students in second through fourth grade using this engaging resource filled with lessons about figurative language. Students will explore idioms found across the content areas to develop skills...

Dive into prefixes and suffixes where students in grades 2-4 will expand their vocabularies and improve their word knowledge. Starting with Prefixes and Suffixes is a standards-based resource that introduces common Latin and Greek prefixes and...

Introduce students to cursive and help them master this skill through the use of fun and engaging activity sheets provided in this resource. The Modern Cursive (D'Nealian) style is modeled throughout the book to help students become proficient in writing...

Jumpstart your students' minds with daily warm-ups that get them thinking mathematically and ready for instruction. Daily Math Stretches offers practice in algebraic thinking, geometry, measurement, and data for grades K-2 to provide an early...

Help students build content area literacy and increase retention and achievement across multiple subject areas through effective interactive notetaking! This grade-range-specific resource provides grades K-2 students...

From jotting notes to taking tests, handwriting plays an essential role in the classroom. Spectrum® Manuscript Handwriting provides the printing practice children need to succeed. Give children an advantage across disciplines by...

Improve understanding of the election process for students in grades K-2 by introducing and exploring the connections between national, state, and local elections. Students will learn to think critically about the election process while using the...

This must-have resource provides 16 original poems that focus on consonant blends and digraphs to support phonemic and phonological awareness in grades PreK-2. Each grade-level appropriate poem features a corresponding lesson that includes two...

This must-have PreK-2 resource features long vowels and supports phonemic and phonological awareness through activities around level-appropriate poetry! Original poems (20) are introduced and feature a corresponding lesson that includes two...

This must-have PreK-2 resource features rimes and supports phonemic and phonological awareness through activities around level-appropriate poetry! Original poems (18) are introduced and feature a corresponding lesson that includes two cross-curricular...

This must-have resource provides 21 original poems that focus on short vowel sounds to support phonemic and phonological awareness in grades PreK-2. Each grade-level appropriate poem features a corresponding lesson that includes two cross-curricular...

Grade: PreK-2 Provide students with purposeful practice and fun activities that focus on detecting, manipulating, and interacting with the sounds of language. Purposeful Play for Early Childhood Phonological Awareness offers 70 lessons that are...

Diagraming Sentences will help students of all ages learn how the parts of speech fit together to make clear and complete sentences. This 48-page language arts book shows visual learners how to diagram sentences to help them understand why some...

Co-authored by Laney Sammons, a leading expert on the Guided Math framework, this essential classroom resource helps teachers successfully plan, organize, implement, and manage Guided Math Workstations. These effective and...

If you happen to be a person with a strong visual memory you remember how words look. Poor spellers, however, can’t recall how a word should look. In How to Teach Any Child to Spell, Gayle Graham offers a simple solution to the problem: Pull...

Get ready to "hit a home run" with strategies and suggestions about how to introduce idioms and incorporate them into your language and writing instruction. They'll "knock your socks off"!Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski's research, the idioms and...

Lay the critical foundation for reading fluency with this engaging resource! Increasing Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases offers 20 creative lessons that analyze high frequency practice to gain word recognition, expression, and fluency...

Designed for teachers instructing a class with a wide spectrum of reading abilities, Leveled Texts for Second Grade addresses the need for reading materials that are differentiated for every learner. Each text in this e-book is written at three...

Reinforce key mathematical concepts in second grade with these fun and engaging skill-based games! Created to align to College and Career Readiness other state standards, this resource is perfect for reinforcing students' mathematical skills. Perfect for...

This essential classroom resource provides educators with a solid foundation in teaching persuasive writing. Grades K-2 students will learn persuasive writing techniques and strategies on how to research topics, form opinions, support their...

Grade: 1-3  Make it a "community effort" in your classroom to build fluency and analytical skills through these engaging primary source documents.While learning about local government, community jobs, and government leaders, students develop fluent...

What better gift to give students than engaging rhymes to read while building literacy skills? This second grade classroom resource will enhance students' mastery of phonological awareness, phonics skills, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and writing...

With this Parent Guide, get parents and teachers working together to increase student achievement. This helpful guide allows parents to easily reinforce what the teacher is doing in the second grade classroom and turn everyday actions into learning...

Help your child master language arts and math with grade appropriate practice that is aligned to state standards. Presented in an effective learning sequence, Spectrum® Grade 2 offers rigorous, grade-specific tasks that will help improve your...

Inspire your curious scientists with interactive lab experiments and self-contained activities to improve critical-thinking skills and conceptual knowledge. Standards-Based Investigations: Science Labs teaches your grades K-2 learners through...

Help students prepare for second grade with this effective summer workbook.  Blast away summer learning loss with 9 weeks of fun activities  Make at-home learning quick and easy with effective daily practice Review the essential reading,...

Experience the magic, excitement, and happiness that surround holidays and cultural celebrations. Geared toward engaging students in grades K-2, The Big Book of Holidays and Cultural Celebrations is filled with hands-on activities, fun facts,...

Build Grade 2 students' comprehension and critical-thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests with high-interest nonfiction articles from TIME For KidsThis easy-to-implement resource includes accompanying document-based questions that focus...

Prepare your grade 2 students for standardized testing with motivating informational text and comprehension exercises that can be used daily!Developed by reading expert, Dr. Edward Fry, this book is based on articles from TIME For Kids® magazine and...

Expand second grade students' knowledge base and prepare them for Next Generation Assessments by incorporating these engaging, rigorous practice exercises into their daily learning. Higher-level questions, multi-step problems, and higher-order thinking...

There is no better way to prepare second grade students for next generation tests than to take practice tests! These practice sets are the perfect preparation tool for Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), Partnership for Assessment of...

If you happen to be a person with a strong visual memory you remember how words look. Poor spellers, however, can’t recall how a word should look. In How to Teach Any Child to Spell, Gayle Graham offers a simple solution to the problem: Pull...

Teach essential vocabulary in ten minutes a day with this cluster approach to help second grade students learn many semantically related words at once! This resource provides opportunities for students to explore and expand vocabularies, increase reading...