Second Grade  

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Welcome to the Second Grade!!!   This year will be an exciting year of exploration, independence, and learning.   During grade level meetings, we plan each month of activities to insure that our Second Graders are receiving similar skills and content matter.  This will provide the common building blocks for our children to succeed.

Family Support for Reading

• Read aloud daily. Your child might be ready for you to read a chapter book aloud, a chapter or two each night.  Children still enjoy picture books.  Many enjoy non-fiction and joke books.
• Visit bookstores and libraries regularly
• Watch Reading Rainbow on T.V. together
• Be supportive as your child reads his first "I Can Read" books.  Help them with difficult words so they can keep the flow of the story.
• Point out ways to figure out words besides "sounding it out" (by looking at the picture, breaking the word into smaller words, reading on, or by thinking what would make sense).
• Provide time at night for your child to read on his or her own. (10-15 minutes)
• Help your child find books at the right reading level since at this stage children need lots of practice to become fluent readers.
• Give books as gifts with name plates to put in the new books.
• Read poems, magazine articles, cartoons, recipes, maps and non-fiction as well as fiction.
• Retell stories with your child in your own words after reading a story
• Talk about strategies you use as a reader when you're looking for a book, when you come across a word you don't know or want to learn about something.
• Encourage your child to go back and re-read a sentence when it doesn't make sense.
• Point out punctuation as your read aloud (like "Whoops, an exclamation mark! I'd better read that a little louder.")
• Talk about books you enjoyed when you were little.

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