If you are looking for comprehensive and kid-friendly no-prep printables to reinforce 2nd grade grammar and vocabulary skills, you've come to the right place! There are so many ways to introduce a new skill whether it's a good-old-fashioned whiteboard, anchor chart, PowerPoint, or center activities. However, I always find it useful to have a good set of printables for each skill I teach because no matter how much we try to refrain from using "worksheets" nowadays, they are just so handy and helpful when used appropriately. We don't want to use them as busy work and we don't want to hand out boring or overwhelming worksheets because our ultimate goal is to teach a skill in the most engaging way, right?
These no-prep printables were created to cover the second grade Common Core Language Standards to supplement your grammar lessons. They were designed to be kid-friendly with clear and simple instructions and with just the right amount of text and clip art. On top of that, I included poster(s) that summarizes each skill so that you can display it on your grammar bulletin board or a literacy center. As there are various practice pages of different level of difficulty, you can differentiate learning as necessary.
What can I use these for?
1. post-lesson review 2. homework 3. literacy stations 4. early finishers 5. assessments 6. small group instruction
7. an activity for a substitute
8. use the anchor charts to teach and to place in the literacy center
Which skills are included?
Simple and Compound Sentences
Prefixes and Base Words
Suffixes and Base Words
Context Clues
Irregular Plural Nouns
Commas in Letters
Irregular Past Tense Verbs
Collective Nouns
Adverbs
Reflexive Pronouns
Capitalization
Shades of Meaning
Compound Words
Types of Sentences
Adjectives
Nouns- common, regular, proper, possessive
Subject and Predicate
Synonyms and Antonyms
Verbs- action, linking, helping
Contractions
Here are some examples of the printables that are included in this packet:
Creating large classroom anchor charts always seemed to help my students grasp the concept before moving on to group or independent work. A little tip I'd like to give is that I never completed an entire anchor chart with the students. I always have the basics ready and then fill it in with the kids during the lesson. If I want to decorate it and make it more colorful (and if I have the time to do so), I usually finish it off later on.
In the No-Prep Printables, you will find poster(s) for each topic that is covered, and you could use these to give you some ideas in creating your own class anchor charts. I also uploaded just the posters excluding the printables. You can use them to either support the topics that you teach or for the students to use as a reference. Like I mentioned above, the anchor charts/posters are already included in the No-Prep Printables bundle, so there is no need to get these separately if you're getting the bundle.
Here is some feedback from teachers who have used these practice pages:
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