Click on the link below to practice some reading skills we are learning in class!

Harcourt Trophies Reading Program

Here are some important parts of our reading program:
    1. Sourcebook
    2. Guided Reading 
    3. DEAR time
    4. Buddy Reading
    5. Read alouds

Our reading sourcebook -  Harcourt Trophies
There are 6 themes in the year. Each theme consists of 5 stories centered around a common concept.
We use the sourcebook during whole class instruction.  Second grade story lines/themes are listed below:
    Theme 1 Being Me- People learn new things about themselves through experiences and relationships.
    Theme 2 Helping Hands- People work together to accomplish goals.
    Theme 3 Our World- Discover and explore the cycles of our world.
    Theme 4 Imagine That- Learn how imagination and creativity help people solve problems and express ideas.
    Theme 5 Neighborhood News- Discover how members of a community are connected and play a part in making the community special.
    Theme 6 Travel Time- See how people expand their knowledge as they explore new ideas and places.

Through the story we are able to teach a lot of language arts skills.

Comprehension skills:
    * Making predictions: What is going to happen next?
    * Comparing and contrasting (stories, characters, settings, etc)
    * Sequencing events in a story: Telling the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
    * Cause/ effect: What happened and why did it happen?
    * Identifying plot: characters, setting, problem, solution of a story
    * Main ideas and details in a story
    * Drawing conclusions

Grammar skills:
    Identifying types of sentences-
             Telling- I like to go to the park on Saturday.
            Question- Where is my brown hat?
            Exclamation- Wow, that show was great!
            Command- Clean you room.
    Capital letters- Proper nouns, beginning of a sentence, I
    Nouns- People, places, and things.
    Verbs- We run on the soccer field.
    Pronouns- The girl is buying lunch. She is buying lunch.
    Word order-  movies Saturday I the to went on
                        I went to the movies on Saturday.
    Adjectives- red shoes , sticky fingers, cold drink
    Contractions- can't   shouldn't    I'm   won't    he'll
    Quotation marks- "Can you come out to play?" asked Mike.
    Adverbs-  The dog walked slowly down the road.
    Possessives- Sarah's pencil        the cats' paws
    Commas- I like chocolate, peanut butter, and oatmeal cookies.
    Verb tense agreement- She plays in the park. They play in the park.

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