Small group activities 2nd grade

Facilitating Successful Reading Centers for 2nd Grade - Lessons By The Lake

I also have a 3-ring binder for keeping plans and running records in.

This fun and FREE main idea download makes lesson planning a breeze! Kids love these printable activities. They are great for Kindergarten, 1st grade, or 2nd grade. Use them in centers, for independent work, small group skills, and more. Students practice identifying the main idea and details in simple texts. (Kinder, first graders, Year 1) #MainIdea #KindergartenReading

Small group time is one of my favorite times of the day! I love meeting with the kids and listening to them talk about math or reading! It used to be a real grind figuring out what I would do during that time, but once I got a system down, it really became the highlight...Read More »

Reading fluency centers that will help students grow as fluent readers independently! Perfect for 2nd and 3rd grade students. Great reading center activity for a read to someone station, or just a weekly reading center in an elementary reading classroom.

Play this super fun sight word game to improve reading skills! This is a great way to practice fluency with beginning readers! Oh Snap! is can be tailored to your child's reading ability & is perfect for Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and/or 2nd Grade. #sightwords #readingskills #makelearningfun

If you're not comfortable teaching small group reading, I'm sharing seven key components to include in your lessons to make them smooth!

Fun and engaging place value games for first grade that are perfect for math centers or whole class activities. Includes free printables.

Activities to Practice Counting Coins 5 comments Freebies, math, math games, Money Money is one of my favorite math topics. Maybe it's because it lends itself so easily to hands-on learning. In second grade, most of the money activities we do are centered around counting combinations of coins. Rather than spend a few weeks covering this skill and then moving on, I make a point of revisiting it as often as I possibly can throughout the school year. Here are a few of my go to activities. Be…

I have always believed the time my students and I spend at the small group table is THE most important time of our day. If you have followed my blog for

Read to see how I plan and organize activities to run my small phonics groups in the beginning of the school year! Plus get this FREE customizable small group planning template to organize your own groups! #Kindergarten #Phonics #SmallGroups

Celebrate and share was to be kind with these free writing crafts. Use this writing activity with kindergarten, first grade, or second grade students on World Kindness Day or any time of year to spread cheer and reflect on kind choices.

Are you wondering how to structure your small group time so you can fit everything in? Here are some teacher-tested tips for using small group time most efficiently.#literacy #smallgroups #intervention #reading #teaching

Not sure how to plan your small group lessons aligned to the Science of Reading? Or, you know how, but it is taking FOREVER? The Ultimate Science of Reading Decodable Text and Small Group Lessons HUGE BUNDLE includes: 🌟100 Decodable Passages 🌟65 Decodable Books 🌟36 Decodable Small Group Kits These decodable readers, editable lesson plans, and fluency passages have been used (and loved) in hundreds of classrooms.

Check out these great tips and ideas for small group writing instruction and activities, including standards-based guided writing! #teachingwriting #writinginstruction

Plain and simple, teacher-led small group math instruction is when students take a new skill and directly apply it in close proximity to the teacher.

Read about how I facilitate my 2nd grade guided reading center. I share my routines, procedures, and management tricks for this small group work stations! This set up works great for 1st grade and 3rd grade also! Use literacy stations smoothly with these free ideas!

Centers are the hallmark of my classroom. Call them whatever you want: purposeful practice, rotations, stations…whatever they are to you. They are IMPORTANT. Without a solid center routine, your small group instruction is disrupted and disjointed. Without a solid center routine, your literacy bloc