• Have your child read a book for 20-30 minutes each day. You can find digital books on his or her reading level through EPIC and Sora. The links are on the second page of the reading challenge.

• When your child knows his or her high frequency words, it makes reading comprehension easier. To review words from 1st grade click on this list. To begin working on 2nd grade words use this list.

• Headsprout is a phonics program that was purchased by Rock Spring Elementary. If your child was enrolled during the 219-2020 school year he or she should have an account. Contact your child's previous teacher for login information.

Writing is an important skill for second graders. The best way to help your child become a better writer is to encourage him or her to write everyday. You may want to give them a summer writing journal or keep a folder of what they have written. Then at the end of the summer you can go back and look at what they have written.

You can let them pick what they write about or use the Summer Writing Challenge ideas. Children can also draw pictures and write about their picture. Providing children with a choice in what they are writing will help motivate them. If they love superheros, unicorns, or space have them write about something they love and know a lot about.

Your child learned a lot of phonics skills that will help them sound out words to determine spelling. If they ask you to spell words with a short vowel or simple long vowel words, ask them to sound the word out and write down each sound that they hear. My students also kept a list more difficult works in the back of their writing journals, and you may decide this is a strategy that you would like to use with your child as well.