Hello 2nd graders and welcome back to school! I'm so excited to be working with you. I know you already learned all of your letters and sounds but it has been quite a long time since you've practiced them by reading and writing short vowel, three letter words. That is where we will be starting. We will focus on one short vowel sound at a time for the first few weeks, along with an intensive review of consonant sounds, until you are ready to move on. I will be posting short videos to practice the concepts that I want you to be working on. After, you will practice building the words by using the paper version of the alphabet board that I will be sending home with you. It is just like the magnetic one that you use in class with me, only this one is paper. Please take very good care of it. You will need it to work on while you practice building and reading words at home with your family and when you practice while working with me virtually during our virtual sessions.

I am putting a copy of it on this site for you to print out in case you ever need another copy. It is the same one I will be sending home. You can LIGHTLY color the vowels orange and the consonants pale yellow, just like our boards in school. Remember to only cut the bottom letters apart...the ones with the dotted lines in between. Do not cut the letters on the TOP of the paper. That is the "board" where you will place the cut letters that we use to build the words. If you make a mistake, either print out the paper below or tell me and I will print you a new one.