Teaching grammar in second grade can be challenging. Sometimes it’s hard to find time to have your students practice their grammar skills. Grammar can be boring, and when students are bored, they are not engaged. Each story that read in class can contain many literacy skills that we can learned and practiced. Tie your story together with these key standards and make it fun!
Tag: Second Grade
Teaching Collective Nouns (CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1.A) Without Tears!
Are you new to second grade? Do you look at your Common Core standards and wonder how in the world you are going to teach them, and have students REALLY learn them? I’ve been there! When I accepted a teaching job to teach second grade after having taught fifth and sixth grades for years, I had to quickly become acquainted with these standards. How can you make teaching “Collective Nouns” fun?