Unit 1: Growing Into Second Grade Phonics

• Children will review and reinforce First grade phonics and punctuation concepts

  • r-controlled vowels

  • Children will focus on capitalization

  • Children will be introduced to prefixes, contractions, punctuation

• Children will study the tricky parts of writing snap words and develop a strategy to help them remember the correct spelling

• Apply phonics rules to try different ways to write tricky words and use conventional spelling with greater accuracy

• Children will work to be more consistent in using appropriate punctuation as they go rather than during the revision or editing process

• Children will be introduced to homophones and study the connection between spelling and meaning

• Students study rhymes and identify the rime (string of letters) to write new words (i.e. make -> cake. lake, bake

Unit 2: Big Words Take Big Resolve:

Tackling Multisyllabic Words

• Children will learn to tackle multisyllabic words part by part

• Children will explore vowel sounds and learn how to try different sounds while tackling a tricky word

• Children will take a deeper look at consonant sounds and explore the differences between hard and soft sounds as well as silent consonants

• Children will apply what they know about familiar inflectional endings to help them solve multisyllabic words

Unit 3: Word Builders:

Construction, Demolition. and Vowel Power:

This unit builds on the world students learned previously to tackle big words and focuses now on spelling big words. Children will:

• Children will apply all that they know about vowels (long and short sounds, vowel teams, silent e etc.) to spelling

• Children will construct words by considering each syllable

• Children will review the words they write and ask themselves, “Does it look right?” “Does it look like similar words that I have seen in books?”

• Children will study a series of words focusing on the vowel sounds, make generalizations about the way words are constructed and sort them into categories

• Children will be be on the lookout for additional words found in their reading and environment and bring them back to their group for further study

• Children will apply what they learned while constructing and deconstructing words to develop a vowel manual

Unit 4: Word Collectors

In this unit students will work to grow their vocabulary by studying words that they encounter in reading and everyday life.

• Children will collect words, study them and sort them into categories (i.e. words that go together by topic, naming words, describing words)

• Children will use context clues to learn the meaning of the words they collect

• Children will apply strategies to learn compound words

• Children will learn base words and then how to apply them to learn new words

• Children will learn a series of prefixes and suffixes to learn more words