Second Grade Resources

Harcourt Trophies
This preview site contains examples of electronic resources available for our new basal reading series.

Words and Pictures
Words and Pictures supports the Literacy Hour and is aligned to the BBC Schools TV series. These are Shockwave games that are excellent to use, although the speakers have British accents. (Grades 1-2)

Sight Words
This teacher has created word lists, PowerPoint flashcards, and other resources that can be used to teach words from the basal reading series, Harcourt Trophies.

BBC-Schools
This site features learning resources for all subjects for ages 4-16+.

Class Big Book Ideas
Students will practice their printing and sentence writing skills through writing pages for class big books. Class big books also are a good way to promote cooperation and reading in your classroom. (Suggested Grade Level K-2)

CyberGuides: Grades K-3
Extensive, high-quality lessons and units for popular Children's Books.

Dr. Seuss Activities
From abcteach

Go for the Grammar Gold
Harcourt School Interactive Grammar games for grades 1-5

Goals/Evaluations/, Portfolio Covers
From abcteach

Harcourt Brace Spelling Exercises
Excellent Interactive Exercises--Grade 2

Jan Brett's Home Page
This author's page includes information about her books as well as many activity pages.

Language Worksheets (Grades 1-5)
From edhelper.com

Lesson Plan: Brothers Grimm
A lesson planned based on "The Fisherman and His Wife"

Lists of Dolch Sight Words
This section will have various free materials for Dolch sight words. All the Dolch materials will have a key made of dots to distinguish between each group of words. The key is as follows and will remain consistent throughout all the materials for Dolch words. The dots for the levels are in the lower right hand corner. Preprimer words will have one dot. Primer words will have two dots. 1st grade words will have three dots. 2nd grade words will have four dots. 3rd grade words will have five dots.

Look, Cover, Write, Check
This site is from Toftwood School, and it is equally good, but the words can be easier, so the grade level can be moved down to grade 2. Students practice their spelling by having the word displayed, then covered up. They must then type the word to see if they can type it correctly. Excellent spelling and typing practice. (Toftwood School) (Grades 2-5)

The Magic School Bus
Lots of fun activities await you here.

Multimedia Grammar Glossary
Students and parents will be able to review grammar usage, and mechanics at school and at home through animated graphics that make concepts come alive from Harcourt School Publishers for grades 1-5.

Reading Comprehension Worksheets (Grades 1-5)
From edhelper.com

ReadWriteThink
ReadWriteThink, established in April of 2002, is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.

Sight Words
Lists of Words with online matching games (Grades 1-4)

Simon
Memory Game with flashing lights--This game is good for memory as well as practicing the mouse for students who are having difficulty with hand-eye coordination. (Grades K-3)

Songs
Students will have fun with these songs that teach concepts such as homophones, vowel sounds, and consonant sounds.

Stories
Each story leads into an adventure of related games.

Spelling Worksheets (Grade 2)
From edhelper.com

Spiderman in Amazing Adventures
This unique comic book, co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Dairy Council, offers a wide range of literacy and health related activities for children in kindergarten through sixth grade. Kids can work on the activities, which range from simple to complex, by themselves, in the classroom, or with their family.

Teaching with the Web
A list of activities for grades K-2 from Jerrie S. Cheek Educational Technology Center - KSU Kennesaw, GA

Vocabulary Worksheets (Grade 2)
From edhelper.com