Make the first month of school easier with this 2nd Grade Back to School ELA Review! Designed to revisit essential first grade reading, phonics, grammar, vocabulary, and writing skills, this comprehensive resource gives students 20 structured daily lessons plus 16 print-and-play literacy games.

Each daily lesson follows the same student-friendly structure: Read & Think, Language & Grammar, Word Work, and Write About It. Students read short fiction and nonfiction passages, answer comprehension questions, review foundational language skills, practice phonics and vocabulary, and complete a connected writing task. Skills gradually spiral from foundational review into more advanced comprehension, grammar, and word-study practice.

The resource includes 20 daily ELA review lessons, 40 pages of student practice, short fiction and nonfiction passages, reading comprehension questions, grammar and language review, phonics and word work, vocabulary activities, daily writing prompts with primary-ruled lines, a complete answer key, teacher guide, 20-day pacing overview, four-week planning guide, differentiation ideas, progress-monitoring tools, a family letter, student reflection, and a Reading Star Award.

Students revisit essential first grade skills including main idea, key details, character, setting, sequence, retelling, inference, cause and effect, compare and contrast, author’s purpose, text features, point of view, context clues, making connections, and summarizing. Language practice includes complete sentences, nouns, verbs, adjectives, plural nouns, pronouns, past-tense verbs, subject-verb agreement, commas in a series, sentence types, common and proper nouns, comparative adjectives, apostrophes, sentence combining, sentence expansion, and editing.

Phonics, vocabulary, and word work progress from short vowels, digraphs, beginning blends, and long-vowel patterns into word families, compound words, contractions, prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms, multiple-meaning words, context clues, and shades of meaning.

The 16 included literacy games add engaging partner, small-group, and center practice.

A built-in Game-to-Skill Quick Map makes it easy to match each activity to a specific learning need, including parts of speech, contractions, long vowels, sight-word fluency, digraphs, antonyms, main idea and details, sentence construction, editing, sequencing, and syllables. Games can be printed on cardstock, laminated, and stored for repeated literacy-center use throughout the year.

Use this resource for second grade morning work, back-to-school ELA review, first grade skills review, literacy warm-ups, reading comprehension practice, grammar review, phonics instruction, vocabulary practice, literacy centers, small groups, homework, or home practice. Each lesson is designed for approximately 15–25 minutes, making the resource easy to fit into a busy classroom schedule.