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Story Prompts

2nd Grade

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 2.18.a

write brief stories that include a beginning, middle, and end; and

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 2.19.c

write brief comments on literary or informational texts.

Alabama Course of Study Standards: 40

Write a personal or fictional narrative using a logical sequence of events, including details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings and providing a sense of closure.

Arizona Academic Standards: 2.W.3

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.W.2.3

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE2W3

New York State Next Generation Learning Standards: 2W3

Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks: W.2.3

Write narratives in prose or poem form that recount a well-elaborated event or experience, or a set of events or experiences; include details and dialogue to show actions, thoughts, and feelings; use temporal words to signal order where appropriate; and provide a sense of closure.
  1. For poems, use words and phrases that form patterns of sounds (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, end rhymes, repeated sounds in words or lines) to create structure. (See grade 2 Reading Literature Standard 4.)
In “Goodbye to Winter Clothes,” a second grader captures the turning point from New England’s winter to spring. “Good bye to winter clothes
Peace out winter
Adios to slipping on ice
Hey beautiful flowers
Hola to bright birds
Hey to shiny grass”
This narrative in the form of a poem is from Massachusetts Writing Standards in Action. (W.2.3, W.2.10, L.2.1, L.2.2, L.2.5)

North Carolina - Standard Course of Study: W.2.3

Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal transition words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
  • With guidance and support from adults, organize information and ideas around a topic to plan and prepare to write.
  • With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.

Tennessee Academic Standards: 2.W.TTP.3

Write narratives recounting an event or short sequence of events.
  1. Include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings.
  2. Use time order words to signal event order.
  3. Provide a sense of closure.

Wisconsin Academic Standards: W.2.3

Create writing that utilizes:
  1. Organization: Provide a beginning, middle and ending that works cohesively to promote the central theme of the text.
  2. Transitions: Use transitions to link and build connections between ideas, text, and events.
  3. Word Choice (including domain specific): Use descriptive words to demonstrate creativity and to provide vivid examples of feelings, events, and images.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.2.m

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.2.n

Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.2.o

Include thoughts and feelings to describe experiences and events to show the response of characters to situations.

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.2.p

Organize a short sequence of events, using temporal words to signal event order; provide a sense of closure

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.2.q

Choose words and phrases for effect

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.4.2.r

Demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation,and spelling.
  • Capitalize proper nouns.
  • Use commas and apostrophes appropriately
  • Spell words drawing on common spelling patterns.
  • Consult reference material as needed.

Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.2.C.1.2

Write personal or fictional narratives using a logical sequence of events, transitions, and an ending.

Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking: ELA.2.V.1.1

Use grade-level academic vocabulary appropriately in speaking and writing.
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