2nd Grade Poetry Centers

Literacy Book Companion Unit with Comprehension & Fun Activities, based on the book Frankenstein Makes A Sandwich , by Adam Rex. (Book not included.)

This 40-page packet provides a variety of levels to reach each individual student. Please see preview pages and descriptions below . Worksheets include lined paper for easy handwriting practice:

40 Pages Total Include:

1. TABLE OF CONTENTS

2. 16 Comprehension short-answer & creative writing questions 

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5. * * * answer sheets

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7. Key Questions : Who, What, When, Where, How, Why (With Graphics) (NEW 2023)

8. Story Elements : Who, What, When, Where, Main Idea, Problem Solving

9. Reflection : Connection, Text-to-Self, Steps You Would Give to Make a Sandwich

10. Read & Respond : Main Idea, Supporting Details, Author’s Purpose, My New Vocabulary (NEW 2023)

11. 20-Word Search page

12. 10 Word Scramble page

13. Spelling Words : 10 words plus 1 Bonus, from the book, on lined paper

14. * * * Spelling Test : blank, lined paper

15. ABC Order : 20 words from the book

16. * * * ABC Order Answer Sheet

17. Syllables : Divide the 20 words into syllables (NEW 2023)

18. * * * Syllables : Answer Sheet

19. Story Map: Setting, Characters, Problem, Solution

20. Step By Step : First, Next, Then, Last (NEW 2023)

21. Step By Step : First, Next, Then, Last : with shaped-illustrated writing areas

22. Title Page: Author, Illustrator, add your own illustration 

23. Design & Detail illustrating page : ….

24. Opinion Journal: What did you think? What would you change?

25. Book Report : Who is the author? Fiction or Non Fiction? Characters? Favorite part? Rate this book! 

26. Senses : Feels, Smells, Looks, Tastes & Sounds Like (NEW 2023)

27. Compare & Contrast Venn Diagram: Frank Vs Drac

28. Writing Prompt : with ghost-shaped lined paper : A Monster Poem

29. Rhyme Time :15 words from the book, to match up to 15 rhyming words

30. Contractions : 9 contractions to combine, or separate

31. Acrostic Poem : MONSTER

32. Word Maker : How Many Words Can You Make From CREATURES (NEW 2023)

33. * * * Word Maker Answer Sheet

34. Math : 12 simple multiplication problems

35. * * * Math : answer sheet

36. Follow the instructions : coloring, multiplication/division using photos (NEW 2023)

37. Follow the instructions : counting pictures , left/right

38. Follow the instructions : First/Second/Third/Fourth ; Counting photos graph (NEW 2023)

39. Label a Witch : 8 labels with fill-in-the-blank & word box included. (NEW 2023)

40. Lebel That Photo : Label 15 photos with cut & paste words (NEW 2023)

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Increase reading fluency with these 80th Day of School-Themed Fluency Poems for 1st and 2nd Grade! This resource includes color and black-and-white versions to support reading comprehension and oral reading practice. Perfect for literacy centers, guided reading, or homework assignments!

Increase reading fluency with these 70th Day of School-Themed Fluency Poems for 1st and 2nd Grade! This resource includes color and black-and-white versions to support reading comprehension and oral reading practice. Perfect for literacy centers, guided reading, or homework assignments!

Increase reading fluency with these 50th Day of School-Themed Fluency Poems for 1st and 2nd Grade! This resource includes color and black-and-white versions to support reading comprehension and oral reading practice. Perfect for literacy centers, guided reading, or homework assignments!

The Figurative Language Bundle comes with a variety of materials to teach students the wonders of figurative language. All Handouts are available in color and black and white. Each poster has a variety of fun pictures to connect the literary term to the meaning. The Figurative Language Bundle Includes: - 6 Figurative Language Posters-Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Metaphor, Hyperbole, and Simile. (Posters in Color and Black and White) - 48 Figurative Language Task Cards. - 6 Figurative Language Task Card Mats. (Mats in Color and Black and White) - Kid Friendly Literary Terms Handout - 6 Figurative Language Foldable(s) (same foldable but with different figurative meanings on each). - Instructions Pages for each activity. I hope you love this product as much as my students and I do! Please remember to comment and rate after. Thank you! If you like this item please check out my Parts of Speech Posters Need Morning Work? Check out my September Morning Work

Increase reading fluency and writing skills with these punctuation-themed Fluency Poems for 1st and 2nd Grade! This resource includes color and black-and-white versions to support reading comprehension and oral reading practice. Perfect for literacy centers, guided reading, or homework assignments!

Poems Included

1. Exciting Exclamations!
2. Curious Questions
3. Perfect Periods
4. Clever Commas
5. quotation marks
6. Dot Dot Dot Ellipses
7. Amazing Apostrophes

Additional Features:

• Color and Black-and-White Versions for easy printing.
• Perfect for 1st and 2nd Grade Fluency Practice, Guided Reading, andLiteracy Center Activities.
• Help students improve reading fluency, comprehension, and expression while enjoying learning content.

Fête des pères-French Father's Day Tribute and Tribute to that Special Someone in the lives of students. Have you always found it difficult to find resources around Father's Day? This resource includes 6 variations on the theme of Father's Day just in case your K-3 students in French Immersion need to change things up for the Special Person in their lives. A great, engaging, and fun activity that can be quickly integrated in to your plans for Father's Day to send a loving message to that special guy in the lives of littles.

What's in the resource?

-Mon Papa est parfait page: cute questionaire for students to fill out the likes and dislikes for dad/grandpa/uncle/cousin/neighbour/you.

-acrostic poem for the word P-A-R-F-A-I-T

-possible answer key for the acrostic poem to prompt ideas

Pages included are:

Mon papa

Mon grand-papa

Mon oncle

Mon cousin

Mon voisin

Tu es

Parfait acrostic poem page

Answer key

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Who can use this resource:

French Immersion teachers in the Kindergarten to Grade Three classroom and those teaching beginner French students. Can be used at the Grade 4-6 level with Core French students learning to segment and blend complex sounds.

What grade level:

I personally use these activities with 1st and 2nd Grade students in French Immersion. I feel confident that students from K-3 will find these most useful and teachers can come back to them year after year with their students. Core French teachers will be sure to add the resource to their repertoire for Grades 4 to 6 as they learn to read and write at the Junior level.

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6. Highlights the importance of honouring the amazing things our Fathers do each and every day
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35 Mother's Day English and Spanish elementary grade activities for coloring and writing. 

Includes:

• letters
• poems
• banners
• word searches (lower & upper reading levels)
• reasons why you're a great mom
• stationary with borders
• and much, much more!

Great for cutting and pasting, to give as gifts, and for teaching coloring and creative writing skills. Great Mother's Day memory makers!

Pair with Mother's Day Coloring Sheets from Educator Helper.

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These acorn sentence writing prompts are perfect for a fall writing center. There are 8 prompts for factual and opinion writing and 2 prompts for autumn acrostic poems. Each prompt is available with two writing line versions. Opinion and factual prompt pages also include a section for students to draw a picture of what they wrote.

Types of Prompts:

• Acorns are ______
• I like acorns because _____
• I like squirrels because _____
• Acorns feel _____
• If I plant an acorn _____
• The squirrel _____
• Squirrels can _____
• The squirrel went to _____ because _____
• 2 acrostic poems

These fall writing prompts help students be successful with writing. Coming up with a topic to write about is often then hardest part of writing. Each prompt gives students a that starting point to begin writing.

When to Use:

• Writing Centers
• Independent Writing Practice
• Homework

These writing prompts are no prep. The teacher can just print off the pages and hand them to students to complete.

More Writing Activities

Guided Writing with Acorns

Guided Writing with Apples

Guided Writing with Bears

Guided Writing with Flowers

Guided Writing with Pumpkins

Increase reading fluency with these Winter-Themed Fluency Poems for 1st and 2nd Grade! This resource includes color and black-and-white versions to support reading comprehension and oral reading practice. Perfect for winter literacy centers, guided reading, or homework assignments!

Poems Included

1. Building a Snowman
2. Cozy Cocoa
3. Ice Skating

Additional Features:

• Color and Black-and-White Versions for easy printing.
• Perfect for 1st and 2nd Grade Fluency Practice, Guided Reading, Literacy Centers, or Seasonal Reading Activities.
• Helps students improve reading fluency, comprehension, and expression while enjoying seasonal content.

Increase reading fluency with these After Winter Break-Themed Fluency Poems for 1st and 2nd Grade! This resource includes color and black-and-white versions to support reading comprehension and oral reading practice. Perfect for winter literacy centers, guided reading, or homework assignments!

Poems Included

1. Winter Memories
2. Back From Break
3. Winter's Break

Additional Features:

• Color and Black-and-White Versions for easy printing.
• Perfect for 1st and 2nd Grade Fluency Practice, Guided Reading, Literacy Centers, or Seasonal Reading Activities.
• Helps students improve reading fluency, comprehension, and expression while enjoying seasonal content.

Increase reading fluency with these New Year's-Themed Fluency Poems for 1st and 2nd Grade! This resource includes color and black-and-white versions to support reading comprehension and oral reading practice. Perfect for winter and New Year's literacy centers, guided reading, or homework assignments!

Poems Included

1. On New Year's Eve
2. A Brand New Year
3. Fireworks

Additional Features:

• Color and Black-and-White Versions for easy printing.
• Perfect for 1st and 2nd Grade Fluency Practice, Guided Reading, Literacy Centers, or Seasonal Reading Activities.
• Helps students improve reading fluency, comprehension, and expression while enjoying seasonal content.

Increase reading fluency with these Martin Luther King-Themed Fluency Poems for 1st and 2nd Grade! This resource includes color and black-and-white versions to support reading comprehension and oral reading practice. Perfect for winter and MLK literacy centers, guided reading, or homework assignments!

Poems Included

1. A Dream For All
2. Marching
3. Colors Of Us

Additional Features:

• Color and Black-and-White Versions for easy printing.
• Perfect for 1st and 2nd Grade Fluency Practice, Guided Reading, Literacy Centers, or Seasonal Reading Activities.
• Help students improve reading fluency, comprehension, and expression while enjoying social studies content.

Increase reading fluency with these Thanksgiving-Themed Fluency Poems for 1st and 2nd Grade! This resource includes color and black-and-white versions to support reading comprehension and oral reading practice. Perfect for fall literacy centers, guided reading, or homework assignments!

Increase reading fluency with these patriotic Veteran's Day-Themed Fluency Poems for 1st and 2nd Grade! This resource includes color and black-and-white versions to support reading comprehension and oral reading practice. Perfect for fall literacy centers, guided reading, or homework assignments!

This is a fun and silly St. Patrick's Day activity to get your students writing. They can read the poem Five Crazy Leprechauns and then create their own little poem. There is a page that lays out the way to write the poem. Students will need to know what an adjective and verb is. If you have older students and want to extend it for them print the 'Create your own Leprechaun Poem' table twice and have the students start at 10 leprechauns. You can choose whether your students have to rhyme or if it is a free style poem. There are so many ways you can use this in the classroom. Included is also a cute page for them to write their own poem on.

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Increase reading fluency with these Halloween-Themed Fluency Poems for 1st and 2nd Grade! This resource includes color and black-and-white versions to support reading comprehension and oral reading practice. Perfect for Halloween literacy centers, guided reading, or homework assignments!

Save 30% with the fluency poems bundle!

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Poems Included

1. Trick-Or-Treat
2. Spooky Spiders
3. Ghosts

Additional Features:

• Color and Black-and-White Versions for easy printing and differentiated instruction.

• Perfect for 1st and 2nd Grade Fluency Practice, Guided Reading, Literacy Centers, or Seasonal Reading Activities.

• Helps students improve reading fluency, comprehension, and expression while enjoying seasonal content.

Fall Resources

Halloween Coloring Pages

Halloween Gift Tags

First Grade Sight Words Color by Codes

Thanksgiving Cell Phone Activity

Roll & Reads

First Grade Sight Words & Sentences

Second Grade Sight Words & Sentences

A fun way to introduce and write Haikus. Students get to draft a Haiku about each of the four seasons and then transfer them onto a Haiku Cube which they can color and decorate. Then they get to cut and glue to have their own cute Haiku Cube. A fun and easy way to add poetry into your classroom.

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Increase reading fluency with these Fall-Themed Fluency Poems for 1st and 2nd Grade! This resource includes color and black-and-white versions to support reading comprehension and oral reading practice. Perfect for fall literacy centers, guided reading, or homework assignments!

Save 30% with the fluency poems bundle!

✨1st Grade Bundle✨

✨1st Grade Fall Bundle✨

Poems Included

1. Autumn Leaves
2. Pumpkin Patch
3. Fall Is Here

Additional Features:

• Color and Black-and-White Versions for easy printing and differentiated instruction.
• Perfect for 1st and 2nd Grade Fluency Practice, Guided Reading, Literacy Centers, or Seasonal Reading Activities.
• Helps students improve reading fluency, comprehension, and expression while enjoying seasonal content.

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Halloween

Fall Resources

Halloween Coloring Pages

Halloween Gift Tags

First Grade Sight Words Color by Codes

Thanksgiving Cell Phone Activity

Roll & Reads

First Grade Sight Words & Sentences

Second Grade Sight Words & Sentences

Inspire your students to express their creativity with our "Summer Poem - Acrostic Poem Template Worksheet." This engaging resource is perfect for capturing the essence of summer through the art of poetry. Whether your students have a sunny or stormy view of the season, this worksheet will guide them in crafting their thoughts into a beautiful acrostic poem.

Product Highlights:

• Examples Page: The opening page features three example acrostic poems about summer—two positive and one negative—to show students different perspectives and inspire their creativity.
• Drafting Section: Includes space for students to write their first draft, allowing them to brainstorm and refine their ideas.
• Final Draft Page: A dedicated page for students to neatly write their final version of their acrostic poem.
• Drawing Page: An additional page where students can draw illustrations to accompany each line of their poem, creating a visual representation of their words.

Why This Resource Is Essential:

• Encourages Creativity: Provides a structured yet flexible way for students to express their thoughts and feelings about summer through poetry and art.
• Enhances Writing Skills: Helps students practice their writing by creating acrostic poems, improving their vocabulary and poetic techniques.
• Promotes Reflection: Encourages students to reflect on their personal experiences and emotions associated with summer, whether positive or negative.
• Interactive and Engaging: Combines writing and drawing, making the activity fun and engaging for students.

Ideal For:

• Teachers looking for a creative writing activity that captures the spirit of summer.
• Educators seeking to integrate poetry and art into their curriculum.
• Classrooms that value expressive and reflective learning activities.

How to Use:

• Examples: Start by discussing the example acrostic poems on the opening page to give students ideas and inspiration.
• First Draft: Have students write their first draft on the provided page, encouraging them to brainstorm and refine their ideas.
• Final Draft: Once satisfied with their first draft, students can write their final version on the dedicated final draft page.
• Illustration: Allow students to draw what they've written for each line on the drawing page, adding a visual element to their poem.

With the "Summer Poem - Acrostic Poem Template Worksheet," students will enjoy exploring their thoughts and feelings about summer while enhancing their writing and artistic skills. This resource provides a perfect blend of creativity and structure, making it an ideal addition to your classroom activities.