Reading Resources
Every day, we will be working through phonics and phonemic awareness lessons to build on and strengthen our decoding skills. We will expand and strengthen the foundational skills built in kindergarten and first grade, so larger and more challenging words can be decoded, read, and understood. We will work on identifying the sounds in a word; learning the different spelling patterns that can create those sounds (encoding); adding, deleting, and changing individual sounds in words; understanding the meaning of word parts; and, understanding and using syllable patterns.
In addition to our foundational phonics skills, we will build our text analysis skills. We will read both fiction and nonfiction books deeply and repeatedly to understand what the author is trying to communicate. We will analyze plot, characters, a story's problem & solution, and an author's purpose. We will compare and contrast different characters and compare and contrast different books to understand different points of view and make connections to our text. We will learn about text features in nonfiction books and how these help us learn and understand facts and information. We will learn how to identify the main idea of a text or section of text and be able to retell that information to others. We will be able to explain the difference between a detail and a main idea in a text and understand how details support a text's main idea. We grow tremendously as readers in second grade, and we have a lot of fun learning in the process!
Second-grade students are required to know many words by sight. This means your child can quickly, accurately, and easily read a word within 3 seconds. Many "sight words" are decodable, but some "sight words" or parts of those words need to be memorized. Your child may use the presentation below to help practice these words at home if desired. At the bottom left corner you can select to manually click through one slide at a time (with the arrow buttons), or you can select the "play" button (the triangle button between the arrows) and the slides will automatically change on their own. You can also enlarge the presentation.
