What does reading support look like in second grade?
We work with students 30 minutes a day, usually during the WIN block, using a structured literacy lesson format. Instruction is sequential and explicit, focusing mainly on the foundational reading skills students need to become proficient readers. All of our activities are based on assessment information and students are progress monitored regularly to make sure they are grasping the concepts.
Some of the components of our daily lessons include:
Phonemic Awareness
Visual Drills of letters and sounds (including blends and digraphs)
Auditory Drills (sound dictation)
Introduction of a new phonics pattern or skill
Irregular high frequency word practice
Dictated writing
Reading text that connects to our phonics patterns
How Can I Help at Home?
Read to your child every night! Make predictions and talk about what is happening in the story.
Encourage your child to read books and passages with decodable words (words that can be sounded out). There are passages to practice below.
Phonemic Awareness
Adding Phonemes
Say -at. Now add /b/ to the beginning. What's the new word? bat
Deleting Phonemes
Say bat. Now say it again but don't say /b/. What's the new word?
Phonics- firming up short vowel sounds; blending letters together to read and write cvc words and words that contain blends and digraphs.
EXAMPLE OF BLENDING
SOUND OUT THE WORD
READ THE WORD
SAY THE WORD AND MAKE IT WITH MAGNETIC OR VIRTUAL LETTERS
WRITE THE WORD
FCRR RESOURCES FOR EXTRA PRACTICE
THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR READING RESEARCH HAS SEVERAL GAMES, AND ACTIVITIES YOU CAN PRINT OUT FOR EXTRA PRACTICE IN VOCABULARY, FLUENCY, PHONICS, AND COMPREHENSION.