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This nine weeks, students will begin a new reading unit of study Tackling Longer Words and Longer Books that will focus on solving tricky words, understanding the characters in our books, and reading with fluency.

In writing this nine weeks, our focus will be writing letters about the books your child is reading to share his/her opinions and reasons and examples for that opinion.

Instructional Approach 

Readers will grow in their comprehension by understanding literary language, tracking events of longer stories, and fluency. Readers will learn to hold onto longer and longer texts. Students will begin to monitor for sense and to be active meaning makers as they encounter trickier language and storylines. Readers will monitor comprehension by stopping, rereading, and asking questions. Readers will make inferences with text evidence and retell stories to support comprehension. 

Writers will learn the structure for writing letters to persuade by sharing their opinions, giving reasons and examples to support their opinions about the books they have been reading. 

Family Support

You can help your child in several ways.

• Read daily with your child at his/her “just right” level.

• Help your child find story ideas in his/her lives- moments that stand out.

• Talk to your child about what they are noticing in the books they are reading. Look at the books as a writer. Ask how this author began or ended the story, added details, dialogue, and action.

• Write letters with your child about the books your child is reading. Include the opinion of the book, reasons for that opinion, and examples that support your opinion. 

• Write letters to your child about the books you are reading.

Grammar: Students will practicing editing drafts using standard English conventions. 

Phonics: In this unit, you will be supporting your students with learning phonics patterns. During Bend 1 and 2, you will support students with all the different vowel patterns to help them read and spell words. In Bend 3, your students will continue to explore the power of r-controlled vowels in multisyllabic words, as well as getting to know -ture and schwa. In Bend 4, you will teach adding -ing and -ed also making words plural. Students will continue work on mastering high-frequency words.

Science

This unit focuses on how wind and water move soil and rock particles across the surface of the earth, how weather is measured and how different types of severe weather events occur.

Social Studies 

During the third nine weeks, second graders will be learning about the past and present through various sources. They will be using the lessons of the past to make sense of the present by analyzing a historical period or figure. 

Ms. White kwhite3@dentonisd.org

Ms. Thompson othompson@dentonisd.org

Ms. Matney kmatney@dentonisd.org

Mrs. Covey acovey2@dentonisd.org

Mrs. Thomas tthomas3@dentonisd.org

Mr. Jacob rjacob@dentonisd.org