Supporting your child at home

The resources and activities listed on this website have been developed to extend prior learning and engage students during this period of school closure. In addition to these resources, we have additional suggestions on how to support your child's education at home.

Second grade readers could be:

• listening to books
  -read aloud daily to your child
  -listening to audio books (Raz-Kids, Book Flix, Storyline, epic)

• Word Work/Study: (iRead, readwritethink)
  -Rhyming, Sight words, two-syllable words
  -Words with short and long vowels

• practicing reading and writing on their own every day

• speaking and writing about characters, setting, beginning, middle & end, problem & solution, and making connections in fiction text

• describe the overall structure of a text, including describing how the beginning introduces the text and the ending concludes the text.

• identify examples of how illustrations, text features, and details support the text.

• retelling stories and informational text using details.

• writing a daily journal or use prompts from Journal Buddies