Second Grade Writing

About Grade 2 Writing

Grade 2 writing (2nd grade, ages 7–8) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Building Sentences and Paragraphs (lessons 1–8), Writing About Experiences (lessons 9–16), Creative Writing (lessons 17–24), Functional and Real-Life Writing (lessons 25–32), and finally Writing Projects (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to use the three-part description frame — My pet is… It has… they like… — to describe a pet or animal, add dialogue to a story using quotation marks around the exact spoken words and write a clear to-do list or shopping list with a title and items written in the correct order.

Start here: Lesson 1: Review Punctuation and Capitalization is free to open and print. Every other lesson has a free preview of its mini lesson and vocabulary.

Paper first: each lesson is printed before you call your child. You read it once and talk it through, your child does the exercises on paper, and you correct together with the Parent checklist — about 45 minutes at the table. The next day, a 10-minute screen review of the same lesson.