Printables
21 sheets to print, grouped by learning area. Grade 2 sheets ask for writing as well as answers, because explaining an answer is most of what the year adds. The instruction line at the top is addressed to you.
Reading and writing
English language arts and literature
Six things a reader does
When it stops making sense
Read something together, and every time they get stuck, name which of these they used. Then have them write one example of their own beside it. The point is noticing the stuck moment, not avoiding it.
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Four rules, twelve words
Spelling patterns
Say the rule out loud before writing, then apply it. A pattern noticed is worth fifty words memorised — and getting one wrong is more useful than getting twelve right by copying.
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Character, setting, plot
Tell it back
After reading anything — a book, a film, something that happened at school — fill this in. Retelling in order is on the Alberta list and it is the foundation of every comprehension question they will ever meet.
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Capitals and end marks
Telling, asking, exclaiming
Read each one out loud first — the voice says which mark it needs. Then write it properly underneath, with the capital at the front and the right mark at the end.
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An information text is read differently
Reading to find out
Find a page of real information — a leaflet, a cereal box, a page about an animal — and use it to fill this in. Information texts are not read from the beginning like a story, and noticing that is the point.
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Numbers to 100
Mathematics
Hundreds, tens and ones
How many is that?
Count the flats, the rods and the units, and write the number. Say it out loud as “three tens and four” before writing 34 — that sentence is the outcome.
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Twelve questions
Adding within 100
The first two need no regrouping and the rest do. Use base-ten blocks or draw rods and units for any that are hard — ten ones becoming one ten is what carrying is.
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Twelve questions
Taking away within 100
The first two need no regrouping. For the rest, one ten has to be traded for ten ones — the reverse of carrying, and much easier to see with blocks than to explain.
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In centimetres
Measure it
Line the ruler up with the start of each line, not with the end of the ruler, and read where it stops. Starting at the wrong place is the classic error and worth catching here.
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2-D shapes
Sort them, then say the rule
Sort these shapes into two groups any way you like. Then write the rule you used. Alberta asks for the rule as well as the sorting, and saying it is harder than doing it.
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Data
Collect it, then graph it
Choose something to count — colours of cars going past, favourite fruit in the family, letters in everyone's name. Tally it, then draw the bars. Collecting the data is half the outcome.
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Looking closely
Science
Suitability
Which material, and why?
For each job, say what material you would use and give the property that makes it right. The because is the whole answer — “metal” on its own is not.
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Straight lines
Light and shadow
Use a torch and a small object on a table. Move the torch closer and further and draw what the shadow does. Light travels in straight lines, and this is how you can see that it does.
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Feel it, then change it
Sound is a vibration
Hum with a hand on your throat, then put a hand on a speaker. Every sound starts with something shaking. Then try the experiments and write what you noticed.
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Precise, reliable, efficient
Instructions a robot could follow
Write the steps for making a jam sandwich, then have somebody follow them exactly — doing only what is written. It will go wrong, and that is the sheet working.
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Canada
Social studies
Eight, west to east
Canada's regions
Write each region beside its number on the list, then circle the ones Alberta is part of. Then draw what your own region looks like out of the window.
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Renewable and non-renewable
Will it run out?
A renewable resource can be replaced within a lifetime; a non-renewable one cannot. Tick a column, then argue about the last two — both are genuinely contested.
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Prime minister and premier
Who leads what?
Canada has a prime minister and each province has a premier. Fill in who leads what, then say one thing each of them decides.
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Trade and transportation
How did it get here?
Look at five things in the kitchen and find where each came from. Then say how it probably travelled. Canada is enormous, and that is the whole reason transportation is an outcome.
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Moving and feeling good
Physical education and wellness
Deciding what to do with money
Spend, save, share
Imagine getting ten dollars. Decide how much goes in each jar and say why. There is no right answer, and defending the split is the outcome.
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Three levels of exertion
How hard am I working?
Do each activity for a minute, then tick how hard the body was working and write one thing you noticed — breathing, heartbeat, warmth. Noticing the difference is the outcome.
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Before you print
- Everything is drawn as outlines, so a sheet costs almost no ink and can be coloured in afterwards.
- Each sheet is one page. Use your browser's print button, or the one at the top of the sheet.
- Most sheets have a short for the grown-up note underneath with the answers and what to watch for. It does not print with the sheet.
- Several sheets have no single right answer on purpose. Those are the ones worth talking through rather than marking.