Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Grade 2, Language Arts Language Expression: Identify correctly and effectively written sentences (COS 14, 19/ SAT10)

Lesson Plans: Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading and Writing. Through a weekly poem, students explore meaning, sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts. Sentence Quest: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences This multi-session activity uses students’ speaking vocabularies to help them learn about complete sentences. Daily Edit Sentences/ Journal Writing Students are given sentences to edit, fixing changes in punctuation and grammar. Silly Sentences Students have fun making sentences and then playing a silly game of switching the subjects and the predicates to create hilarious new sentences.

Resources: Making Sentences Games: Here are three games that will help students discern properly written sentences. Writing Checklist: Create a checklist for your students to use when editing. Sentences in Motion: This is a neat game to teach the parts of a sentence while using locomotor skills. Power Proofreading: Cute interactive practice for different types of language arts skills. Watson's Word Wall: This is a printable activity that lets students build sentences with words that follow particular letter/ vowel combination. Magnetic Words: Students can practice making sentences using magnetic words on this site. Suggestions for English Language Learners: (E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) (E/B) Students identify sentences that begin with a capital letter and end with a period. (D) With each reading students identify sentences that are correctly written in a certain way (i.e. punctuation, or subject-verb agreement, etc.).
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