Grade 2 Spring — Opinion Writing, Pronouns/Adverbs/Prepositions, and Word-Building with Prefixes and Suffixes

Unit-opener: a Grade-2 writer at a 'review station' desk with three review samples on display (a book, a snack package, a photo of a place), an Opinion-SPO planning sheet, and an anchor chart 'OPINION + REASON + EXAMPLE + CLOSING' on the wall. Style: warm watercolor, multicultural classroom, eye-level shot.

Opinion-paragraph anatomy anchor poster: four labeled boxes stacked vertically — OPINION STATEMENT (red, with a thumb-icon), REASON 1 + EXAMPLE (yellow), REASON 2 + EXAMPLE (yellow), CLOSING (green, with a wrap-icon). Print-ready 11x17, dyslexic-friendly font.

Subject vs. object pronouns anchor chart: two columns SUBJECT | OBJECT with paired rows (I/me, you/you, he/him, she/her, it/it, we/us, they/them). Each row illustrated with a tiny scene — left panel showing the pronoun DOING (arrow pointing forward), right panel showing the pronoun RECEIVING (arrow pointing back). Print-ready 11x17.

Adverb-categories anchor chart: three columns MANNER (how) / TIME (when) / PLACE (where) with 8 example adverbs per column (manner: quickly, softly, carefully, loudly, gently, slowly, happily, suddenly; time: yesterday, today, soon, often, never, always, later, then; place: here, there, outside, inside, upstairs, nearby, everywhere, downtown). Print-ready 11x17.

Prepositions of location and time anchor chart: top half — LOCATION prepositions illustrated with a small mouse-and-box scene (in the box, on the box, under the box, behind the box, beside the box, between the boxes, above the box, below the box); bottom half — TIME prepositions illustrated with a clock and calendar (before lunch, after recess, during math, until Friday). Print-ready 11x17.

Prefixes and suffixes anchor poster: top row PREFIX un- (means 'not' or 'opposite of') with examples unhappy, unkind, undo, unzip, unsafe; second row PREFIX re- (means 'again' or 'back') with examples redo, rewrite, replay, return, reread; third row SUFFIX -ful (means 'full of') with examples joyful, hopeful, careful, helpful, colorful; fourth row SUFFIX -less (means 'without') with examples hopeless, careless, fearless, useless, endless. Each row color-coded. Print-ready 11x17.

Photograph set of 16 opinion-prompt cards: a stack of library books, a school cafeteria tray, a playground slide, a class job chart, a sneaker, a winter coat, a pet, a book cover (mentor text), a family meal, a school garden, a weather chart, a holiday display, a class pet hamster, a bicycle, a board game, a paintbrush. Print-resolution, culturally inclusive.

2.5-minute model of a Grade-2 writer using the Opinion-SPO tool and the 5-move peer-edit protocol: voiceover explains how the writer fills opinion / reason / example / closing boxes; then a second child models the peer-edit conversation with timestamped overlays for each of the 5 moves. Caption track on. Multicultural child voices.

Formal vs. informal English anchor chart (L.2.3.a): two columns side by side — INFORMAL ('hey', 'gonna', 'kinda', 'lol', 'wanna', 'yeah', 'thx', 'u') | FORMAL ('hello', 'going to', 'kind of', 'that is funny', 'want to', 'yes', 'thank you', 'you') with example pair contexts: text-to-friend vs. letter-to-principal. Print-ready 11x17.

Peer-edit 5-move protocol bookmark (print-ready 2x7 inches): 1. LISTEN all the way through. 2. COMPLIMENT with a quote ('I liked when you wrote ___'). 3. ASK one question ('What did you mean by ___?'). 4. SUGGEST one revision move by NAME (ADD DETAIL / STRONGER VERB / VARY LENGTH / COMBINE / CHECK TENSE). 5. The WRITER decides what to change. Front of bookmark in color; back of bookmark in dyslexic-friendly black-and-white.