2nd Grade: English Language Arts
A team of Northshore School District educators curated these supplemental learning resources to support asynchronous learning opportunities. This page includes instructional videos from open educational resources that were used during the 2020-21 school year.
Quarter 1
Quarter 1 Reading
Big Ideas & Concepts
- Character
- Setting
- Plot
- Key Details
- Traits, Motivation, Feelings
- Point of View
- Mood
- Central Message, Moral or Lesson
Instructional Videos
- Khan Academy: Defining Story Elements
- Khan Academy: What Pictures Bring to a Story
- Khan Academy: Character Action in a Story
- Khan Academy: Point of View
- Khan Academy: Making Inferences
- PBS Learning: Who, What, Where
- Ted ED: 5 w's (who, what, where, when, why)
- Khan Academy: Using Context Clues
- TED Ed: Syllabication
- KCLS Info Base: How to Chunk Words
- KCLS Info Base: Using Pictures to Help Decode
- PBS Learning: Fairy Tales
- Khan Academy: Finding the Moral of a Story
- KCLS BookFlix: Lon Po Po (Fairy Tale)
- KCLS BookFlix: Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Fairy Tale)
- KCLS BookFlix: The Three Little Pigs (Fairy Tale)
- KCLS BookFlix: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Pourquoi Tale)
Quarter 1 Writing
Big Ideas & Concepts
- Narrative Writing
- Descriptive Details
- Narrative Introduction and Closing
- Dialogue
- Sequence of Events
- Paragraph Structure (indent or block)
- Grammar Skills
- Independent Writing
Quarter 2
Quarter 2 Reading
Big Ideas & Concepts
- Main Topic and Key Details
- Summarize
- Text Features
- Images
- Diagrams
- Reasons
- Comparison
- Compare and Contrast
- Referencing Texts
Instructional Videos
- Khan Academy: Finding Evidence in the Text
- Khan Academy: Main Idea
- Khan Academy: Interpreting Text Features
- Khan Academy: Using Text Features to Locate Information
- Khan Academy: Using Context Clues
- TED Ed: Syllabication
- KCLS Info Base: How to Chunk Words
- KCLS Info Base: Using Pictures to Help Decode
Quarter 2 Writing
Big Ideas & Concepts
- Writing Process
- Main Ideas and Key Details
- Supporting Facts and Definitions
- Linking Words
- Two or More Sources
- Appropriate Opening and Closing for Informational Writing
- Grade Level Grammar Skills
- Writing in Response to Reading
Quarter 3 & 4
Quarter 3 & 4 Reading
Big Ideas & Concepts
- Character
- Setting
- Plot
- Narration
- Key Details
- Traits, Motivation, Feelings
- Point of View
- Mood
- Central Message, Moral or Lesson
- Determining themes
- Quoting texts accurately
- Main Topic and Key Details
- Summarize
- Text Features
- Images
- Diagrams
- Reasons
- Comparison
- Compare and Contrast
- Referencing Texts
- Research
- Forming/supporting opinions
Instructional Video
- Khan Academy: Defining Story Elements
- Khan Academy: What Pictures Bring to a Story
- Khan Academy: Character Action in a Story
- Khan Academy: Point of View
- Khan Academy: Making Inferences
- PBS Learning: Who, What, Where
- Ted ED: 5 w's (who, what, where, when, why)Khan Academy: Using Context Clues
- TED Ed: Syllabication
- KCLS Info Base: How to Chunk Words
- KCLS Info Base: Using Pictures to Help Decode
- PBS Learning: Fairy Tales
- Khan Academy: Finding the Moral of a Story
- KCLS BookFlix: Lon Po Po (Fairy Tale)
- KCLS BookFlix: Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Fairy Tale)
- KCLS BookFlix: The Three Little Pigs (Fairy Tale)
- KCLS BookFlix: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears (Pourquoi Tale)
- Khan Academy: Finding Evidence in the Text
- Khan Academy: Main Idea
- Khan Academy: Interpreting Text Features
- Khan Academy: Using Text Features to Locate Information
- Khan Academy: Using Context Clues
- TED Ed: Syllabication
- KCLS Info Base: How to Chunk Words
Quarter 3 & 4 Writing
Big Ideas & Concepts
- Narrative Writing
- Descriptive Details
- Narrative Introduction and Closing
- Dialogue
- Sequence of Events
- Paragraph Structure (indent or block)
- Grammar Skills
- Independent Writing
- Writing Process
- Main Ideas and Key Details
- Supporting Facts and Definitions
- Linking Words
- Two or More Sources
- Appropriate Opening and Closing for Informational Writing
- Grade Level Grammar Skills
- Writing in Response to Reading
Instructional Videos
- YouTube: Writing Tips from Lucy Calkins
- YouTube: Generating Ideas with Heart Maps
- YouTube: How to Write a Narrative Introduction
- PBS Learning: Who, What, Where
- Khan Academy: What Pictures Bring to a Story
- TED Ed: Ways to Start a Sentence
- TED Ed: Contractions
- YouTube: Informational Text
- TED Ed: Adding ed to past tense words
- TED Ed: Prepositions
- TED Ed: Homophones (there, their and they're)
- YouTube: Vowel Teams
- YouTube: Consonant le Syllables
- YouTube: Syllable Division, 6 Syllable Types