All Aboard
Students will engage in story mapping and identification of the various elements of a story.  

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
This supplemental unit provides Internet resources for second grade students to learn interesting facts about the weather. They will learn and write about the formation of clouds.

Under the Deep Blue Sea
This lesson gives students the opportunity to explore oceans and ocean life. Students will listen to stories and poems with oceanic settings and write about the forms of sea life.

What is History?
This lesson plan addresses the ways people learn about events from the past and discuss and write about how historical accounts are influenced by the perspective of the person giving the account.

Diagram It: Identifying, Comparing, and Writing About Nonfiction Texts
This lesson introduces second-grade students to different types of nonfiction writing. Students explore a variety of nonfiction books and compare them to fiction.

Green Eggs and Purple Bacon
In this lesson students Read Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. The class cooks and eats green eggs and ham. Students imagine a dish and write a recipe using a logical sequence. Students type, illustrate, and compile recipes into a class cookbook.

Kids Are Authors: Kids Are Authors is an annual competition open to Grades K–8 and is designed to encourage students to use their reading, writing, and artistic skills to create their own books.

Writing Prompts: These sites have a variety of writing prompts to help students develop stories. Includes some handouts and PowerPoint presentations.

Writing Assessment Tools: These sites include rubrics, scoring guides, and checklists for assessing student writing. Ideas for peer editing and student self-evaluation are included. Several of these assessment tools can be used as they are while others can be constructed online.

Narrative Writing Resources: Great ideas for narrative writing

Descriptive Writing Resources: Great ideas for descriptive writing

Ideas for Teaching Writing: Ideas for teaching writing using the Six Traits model.

Not Your Same Old Book Report: ideas that really make you rethink the concept of three dimensional reports

Ideas for Teaching the Modes of Writing: Information and activities for teaching the modes of writing

Snoopy Comic:  Use these Snoopy Comics for writing activities
 

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