Grade 2 • Language Arts • Writing

Grade 2 Language Arts

Writing

Writing

Your child will write for various audiences addressing a variety of purposes: to inform or explain, to persuade, and to express personal ideas. They will control sentence structure, word choice, and the conventions of spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.  The Being a Writer program is designed to help students build these writing skills. Throughout the program students hear and discuss examples of good writing and use it as a model to draft, revise, and publish their own writing.  The program also helps the class become a community of writers in which everyone feels welcome. 

Second Grade Writing Units

• The Writing Community
• Telling More
• Fiction
• Nonfiction
• Letter Writing
• Poems and Words
• Opinion Writing
• Revisiting the Writing Community

Writing Tips

• Encourage your child to write frequently.
• Provide an area in your home for writing with special materials (pencils, different types of paper, markers, envelopes).
• Praise your child’s writing.
• Share letters and cards from friends and relatives with your child.
• Encourage journal writing for special occasions (trips, family events, planning a birthday party).
• Have your child help you compose shopping lists, notes and letters to friends, and invitations.
• Encourage your child to write stories.
• Allow your child to take risks on a rough draft. Be your child’s partner for changing and correcting his or her writing.
• Encourage your child to write thank-you notes, invitations, letters to others, lists of things to do, and items to take on a trip.
• Encourage journal-writing for special occasions (trips, family events, planning a birthday party).

Handwriting Tips and Resources

• Practice at least 30 minutes per week.
• Practice writing the letter in the air, on the carpet, in shaving cream, on a sibling's or parent's back.
• Manuscript Letter Formations (English) Links to an external site.    Letter Formations Links to an external site. (Spanish)
• Cursive Letter Formations Links to an external site.
• Handwriting paper Links to an external site.

Writing Samples

Writing Expectations

Writing Developmental Levels

Writing Activities

• 
  Education.com Links to an external site.
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  Reading Rockets- Launching Young Readers Links to an external site.
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  Story Creator App Links to an external site.
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  123's ABC's Kids Handwriting App Links to an external site.
• ABC Kids App Links to an external site.
• Typing Agent (on hcpss.me) Links to an external site.