Curriculum » NC Standard Course of Study & aligned resources
English Language Arts — Grade 2
Goal 4, Objective 4.01
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Similes
- "The Talking Eggs" by Robert San Souci is used to introduce and illustrate an author's use of language to paint a picture in the reader's mind. Students will draw a picture to show what this author meant, create similes to describe themselves, and finally use a simile in their next story in Writer's Workshop.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
- By jennifer lettieri.
- Love Letters: Using imagery to convey feelings
- After listening to Arnold Adoff's Love Letters, students will write and share their own love letters. This lesson is especially fun around Valentine's Day.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Reid.
Resources on the web
- What's the difference? Beginning writers compare e-mail with letter writing
- In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students explore the differences between e-mail and letter writing by contrasting and identifying different forms, and experimenting with their own e-mail and letter compositions. This lesson incorporates an “E-Mail... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
- Teaching about story structure using fairy tales
- The teacher guides students through read-alouds of fairy tales in this unit that introduces the concept of the beginning, middle and end of stories. After students use storyboards to identify common plot sequences in fairy tales, they work in groups to... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- Provided by: ReadWriteThink
