Helpful Links for At Home Practice
Updated March 6
Life Skills Practice - YouTube Links
Screens and the Bee (Human Technology and Bees)
Accountability & Responsibility - Many Gr. 2 Students could benefit from these books as many have a very difficult time accepting and admitting their roles in conflicts/issues:
Supporting Family Involvement in Foundational Reading Skills
Below are some YouTube Links to help you with assisting your child's reading at home:
Academic Language:
Talking While You Read Using CROWD
Use CROWD to ask diferent types of questions to prompt a discussion about the book. Below are examples of the types of questions that you can ask your child:
Completion Ask your child to complete a sentence or a phrase from a book you are reading. The four stages of the life cycle of a butterfly are egg, caterpillar, _________, and butterfly.
Recall Ask about details of what you read. Can you describe how the caterpillar builds a chrysalis?
Open-ended Ask about a picture in the book. What is going on in this picture?
W--Ask wh questions that begin with Who, What, Where, When, or Why. What does a caterpillar do a lot of after it hatches from the egg?
Distancing Ask questions that relate something in the story to your child’s life. Remember when we saw that butterfy on our walk yesterday? Which picture of the butterfies in this book look most like then one we saw? What type of butterfy was it that we saw?
Talking While You Read Stories - The Day the Crayons Quit
Decode, Analyze, Write & Recognize Words
Fluency and Comprehension
When you read to me - Happy Birthday Danny the Dinosaur
Echo Reading - Danny Dinosaur