Plan Writing with a Graphic Organizer

Use the pages in order or pair each one with a piece of writing your child is already doing. Read the example together before the practice. Have your child say what changed and why the new version is better.

2nd grade writing page: plan writing with a graphic organizer. A graphic organizer is a chart that helps you plan. Each detail is one fact about the topic. The directions on the page read: Use three words from the word bank to start the Detail boxes. Then, add your own words. Then, write a topic sentence. The answer key gives a marking guide and a model answer, since answers will vary.

Yes, both. We made it for 2nd Grade writing, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with writing process. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Second graders plan, draft, revise and edit with guidance (CCSS W.2.5). These six sheets take one step each, from a graphic organizer to editing for capitals, punctuation and spelling.

Transition words such as first, next, then and finally tell the reader what comes next and show the order of ideas. The transition sheet asks students to add one to the start of each sentence in a draft.

A topic sentence opens a paragraph and tells the main idea. A closing sentence ends it by saying the big idea again in new words. The two sheets practice each by reading a paragraph and writing the sentence.

Yes. All six sheets include a key with a marking guide and model answers.

Second graders write opinion pieces with reasons (CCSS W.2.1), informative paragraphs with facts and a conclusion (W.2.2), and narratives with details, feelings and time words (W.2.3). They also begin to revise and edit with guidance (W.2.5).

An opinion tells what the writer thinks and why. A narrative tells a story in order. An informative piece teaches true facts about a topic. Each page in this topic names its type in the title, so you can choose the one you need.

Four to seven sentences is typical: a topic or opinion sentence, two or three supporting sentences and a closing sentence. The planning boxes on these pages help children organize before they write.

Yes. All 36 opinion, narrative, informative and writing process sheets have an answer key with a marking guide and a model answer.