Second graders explore nonfiction text features—headings, captions, glossaries, and indexes—to locate key facts quickly and explain how images and diagrams add information, building confident, independent informational readers.

Second graders learn to craft stronger stories by writing clear beginnings, smooth transitions, and endings that follow from events. They revise for order and verb accuracy—turning simple drafts into well-structured, polished narratives.

Second graders write vivid small-moment stories with clear beginnings, middles, and ends—using temporal words and sensory details to bring experiences to life while revising and editing for clarity and conventions.

Second graders learn to describe characters, settings, and events using both pictures and words. Build vocabulary with vivid adjectives and adverbs while connecting visual and textual clues to understand stories deeply.

Second graders become story detectives—asking who, what, where, when, why, and how to uncover meaning! Practice retelling stories with clear beginnings, middles, and ends while building comprehension and fluency.

Kick off second grade with joyful reading and writing routines! Build stamina, practice partner talk, and establish writer’s workshop habits while improving fluency, sentence skills, and revision confidence.