Abbreviations Activities

This 2nd grade grammar resource includes a full week of abbreviations activities, abbreviations worksheets, PowerPoint minilessons, task cards, and an assessment. Students learn to recognize, read, and write abbreviations for days of the week, months, addresses, people, places, and time. This unit includes short daily practice to teach abbreviations in a variety of formats.

Short on time to teach grammar? This simple 5-day routine allows you to teach, practice or assess your students in 15 minutes or less each day. The daily routine includes whole group practice as well as partner activities. The easy to grade abbreviations worksheet is ideal for reinforcement, morning work, or homework. An engaging reading passage gives students the opportunity to identify abbreviations in context. Students apply their learning in a writing activity with three different formats for easy differentiation. On Friday students are assessed with a short, easy to grade assessment.

Daily grammar practice routine

• Monday: Abbreviations mini lesson on PowerPoint with interactive practice slides
• Tuesday: Practice worksheet
• Wednesday: Abbreviations center activity
• Thursday: Reading passage and writing activity
• Friday: Assessment

Here’s what you’ll get:

•  A teaching PowerPoint with daily slides for the mini-lesson and moveable practice activities
•  Detailed instructions, teacher’s notes, lesson plan & answer keys
•  Abbreviations practice worksheet
•  Grammar-based reading passage with abbreviations
•  Writing activity
•  Task cards and recording sheet
•  Abbreviations assessment
•  Skill Poster

All the activities in this unit are intentionally designed to be very simple, with easy to understand activities for students, and easy to grade papers for the teacher. All the materials require very little prep or no prep at all. In fact, the only thing you’ll need to do is make copies and cut out a few straight lines on the task cards. Teaching grammar has never been easier!

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