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Second Grade Lessons and Units

Literacy In Action

 Videos that share literacy practices in action

State Department Collections

• Delaware Literacy Concept Organizers​
• Louisiana Department of Education: Second Grade
• Maryland Exemplar Units
• Mississippi Exemplar Unit: Second Grade
• New York State ELA Units (EngageNY)
• Vermont Writing Collaborative: Writing for Understanding Common Core Units for Teachers

​Independent Organization Collections

• K-2 Read Aloud Project: Quality literature lesson plans with text dependent questions, tier 2-3 vocabulary, and writing tasks.
• Student Achievement Partners: Instructional Lesson Planning Guide
• Student Achievement Partners Text Sets: Lessons using a volume of reading on specific topics to support all learners in building background knowledge and vocabulary​ 
  • Second Grade (Text Set)
  • Second ​Grade (Research Pack)​​​​
• Bookworms Read Aloud Lessons: An extensive set of interactive read aloud plans intended to alternate with modeled writing and eventually process writing. ​​
• Storyline Online: The Screen Actor Guild sponsors read alouds by actors as well as CCSS aligned teacher guides.
• ReadWriteThink Lesson I Wonder: Eight 40 minute lessons on writing scientific explanations​
• Common Sense Media Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum : These free K-12 materials are aligned to our new standards and can be accessed in iBooks or in printable form.​
• Writing Fix: Hundreds of interactive writing prompts using mentor texts.