I am so excited to get started with new Second Grade friends this year! We will do some great getting-to-know-you activities the first few days centered around the book "One Smart Cookie." You will notice a"cookie" theme in our class, vocabulary, art and writing etc. It is a fun way to begin the year.
Our first week of Reading Street begins August 28th and will go through September 7th as we get into the swing of things. As I told many of you in our meetings, I am posting the main concepts of what we will be working on.
Below are the skills
and vocabulary we will be working on for the next 5 days. (*Please note: our literacy lessons are based
on 5-day plans that may or may not align with a M-F schedule. In an effort to
teach the entire grade level core, we will send home the “weekly study skills”
on the day that we begin a new 5-day instructional sequence.) You can support your child’s literacy skills
by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below:
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Big
Idea/Big Question
(This is the theme of our
unit in class.)
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Question
of the Week
(This is the theme/question
for this week’s instruction in class.)
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Exploration: What can we learn from exploring new places
and things?
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What can we learn by
exploring different communities?
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Phonics
Skills
(These are the letters and
sounds we are learning in class.)
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Spelling
Patterns and associated Words
(These patterns connect to
our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
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Short
vowels and consonants
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Short
vowels and consonants:
rock list
desk job sad
chop sack tag
rib mess dust
drum
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High
Frequency Words
(These reading words should
be practiced and memorized.)
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Story
Words
(These reading words are
words from this week’s main selection.)
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beautiful country
friend front someone
somewhere
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cousins meadow
parents promise
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Oral
Vocabulary
(Try using these words in
your conversations at home.)
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Handwriting
Practice
(Students can practice the
writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
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downy founders
investigate muttered perch
rural unanimous urban
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Aa, Dd, Oo,
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