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.
Reading Rockets- Launching Young Readers Links to an external site.
Story Creator App Links to an external site.
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.