Grammar instruction is one thing that many teachers struggle to work into their ELA curriculum. For your lucky little learners, grammar concepts may be some of the most challenging when it comes to reading and writing. Fortunately, there are easy ways to incorporate grammar into your day. Start by using these grammar practice ideas with your students that make learning fun!
Enhance Literacy with Embedded Grammar Lessons
Research on the Science of Reading (SOR) dating back to the 1970s shows that teaching grammar as isolated rules doesn't effectively transfer to writing and speaking. What works better is embedding grammar within the context of writing. This is why our writing program Lucky to Learn Writing (LTLW) includes grammar skills integrated into writing lessons. This approach ensures that the same skills and standards are met, but in a meaningful context that connects with the rest of the literacy curriculum.
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We also recognize the value of targeted practice and intervention to reinforce these skills. That's why we've compiled a list of our favorite grammar activities that provide additional practice and intervention opportunities. These activities are designed to complement our integrated approach, ensuring students have a well-rounded understanding of grammar concepts. Let's dive into these engaging and effective activities!
Grammar Review Lessons
One way to incorporate grammar into your day is with spiral ELA and grammar review lessons. This bundle has 40 weeks of review sheets, answer keys, and lessons to use for 2nd grade grammar lessons.
You’ll love this easy way to use grammar practice in your classroom. The lessons are ready-to-go, alleviating any anxiety you have about prepping those grammar practice tests or review materials!
The grammar skills build throughout the year with mini grammar practice lessons. Start the year with basic parts of speech and grammar practice. By fourth quarter, your students will be ready for adverbs and prepositional phrases in this 2nd grade grammar review.
Another way to use 2nd grade grammar practice in your classroom is with anchor charts and grammar posters! Post your big grammar concepts on your board or wall for students to see when they’re reviewing grammar skills throughout the year.
Grammar Practice Worksheets as Bellringers
One way to integrate grammar practice into your daily grammar routines is with grammar bell ringers! Use Grammar Day by Day to work through 1st and 2nd grade grammar lessons.
Use Grammar Day by Day for grammar practice worksheets to review essential grammar skills or for daily grammar bell ringers.
Start each ELA block with daily grammar practice worksheets that take 5-10 minutes for your students to complete. These grammar practice worksheets give your students a chance to review 38 skills for grammar practice.
You can share the activities on Seesaw or Google Classroom with your remote learners. If you are teaching in person, you can print out a full week of grammar practice worksheets on two ready-to-use pages!
Check out the grammar practice skills included in the Grammar Day by Day grammar practice worksheets:
Start with 1st grade grammar review, then focus on each of the 2nd grade grammar skills. The Grammar Day by Day grammar practice worksheets make it easy to incorporate grammar into your day!
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Digital Grammar Task Cards
Bring extra grammar practice to your classroom with digital grammar task cards! Use Digital Toothy task cards in Google Classroom or Seesaw to provide grammar practice online for your lucky little learners!
Here’s how it works:
Students answer grammar questions over 43 different skills. Each skill has 24 different problems. Students answer questions and add a tooth to Toothy’s mouth for each correct answer. The digital grammar task cards are self-paced and self-correcting, so students can try again if they answer incorrectly. Everyone wins with this easy way to implement grammar practice in your primary ELA classroom!
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Use these 2nd grade grammar lessons to help your students with grammar practice all year long! Using grammar practice worksheets in the primary ELA classroom helps you easily incorporate grammar skills into whole or small group instruction, stations, or even grammar bell ringers!
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