Grade 2

To build a foundation for college and career readiness, students must read widely and deeply from among a broad range of high-quality, increasingly challenging literary and informational texts. Through extensive reading of stories, dramas, poems, and myths from diverse cultures and different time periods, students gain literary and cultural knowledge as well as familiarity with various text structures and elements. By reading texts in history/social studies, science, and other disciplines, students build a foundation of knowledge in these fields that will also give them the background to be better readers in all content areas.

Fundations:

Level 2 of Fundations builds on the basic skills that were learned in Kindergarten and Level 1  and progress further into the study of word structure.  By the end of Level 2 students will be able to :

• Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
• Segment syllables into sounds (phonemes).
• Identity word structures such as vowels, consonants, blends, digraphs, and digraph blends.
• Identity parts of words (syllables, basewords, suffixes)
• Identify all syllable types:  closed, vowel-consonant-e, open r-controlled, vowel digraph, consonant-le)
• Distinguish between long and short vowels.
• Read words with long and short vowels.
• Read and spell words with r-controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, or, ur)
• Read and spell words with vowel teams (ai, ay, ee, ey, ea, oi, oy, oa, ow, oe, ou, oo, ue, ew, au, aw)
• Read and spell words with unexpected vowel sounds (old, ild, ind, ost, olt, ive)
• Read and spell words with suffixes.
• Read and spell words with prefixes.
• Divide words with multiple syllables.

Guided Reading and Writing:

A small group of 4-6 second grade students meet with the teacher to practice reading, writing, and speaking. Students read an instructional level book in a group, focusing on decoding, vocabulary acquisition and comprehension skills.  Students engage in conversations to help make predictions using prior knowledge or experiences to understand story elements.  Students discuss important details to help them retell important events in the text. 

Into Reading:

Second graders will learn reading. writing, and language skills through the Into Reading Program. They will be exposed to a variety of fiction and non fiction texts during each unit. Each module will focus on a specific reading skill during instructional time.  Unit goals include:  identifying point of view, identifying the main idea and supporting details, asking questions about the text, story structure and text features

Fountas & Pinnell:

The Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment Systems are accurate and reliable tools PS 86 teachers use to identify the instructional and independent reading levels of students. This assessment tool is also used to document student progress through one-on-one formative and summative assessments

Writing:

Students will learn about the writing process as they publish writing pieces throughout the year to prepare them for Performance-Based Assessments (PBAs). The PBAs and writing pieces will be graded using the 6 + 1 Traits of Writing rubric.  This rubric will assess the organization, voice, sentence fluency, word choice, organization, conventions, and presentation of the piece. Second graders will complete a variety of writing pieces including: narrative, informational, biography, opinion, and poetry.