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Reading Together Grade Two:  Off to a good start
The reading skills students acquire in the early grades determine their academic success throughout school. That’s why it’s so important to reach children in their critical second year, when decoding needs to develop into fluency and comprehension. In Reading Together Grade Two, students are introduced to sequenced and leveled text in a variety of genre. See a sample lesson to preview the strategies used to promote fluency and comprehension.
 

Fluency strategies

Modeled reading
Guided oral reading 
Silent independent reading 
Repeated reading
Monitoring and correcting  

Comprehension strategies

Predicting
Retelling
Explicit questioning
Inferring
Synthesizing information

Writing is practiced in each lesson during post-reading activities (letters, books, Venn diagrams, story maps, sequencing sentences, etc.). Students are given many opportunities to practice text structure, and to compare and contrast what they have read.

Vocabulary is built as students are exposed to rich, authentic literature.   Rereading, discussion and structured writing activities help students learn and use new words in context.  

Spelling and phonics skills are enhanced through multiple reading and writing activities in all lessons. Free Language Arts Enrichment Activities focus on phonics support, word parts, such as prefixes and suffixes, and vocabulary.

 

See how Reading Together helps students achieve end-of-grade expectations. Grade Two is the first step in a continuum that includes Grade Three and Intermediate (Grades Four, Five and Six).

 

Grade Two builds a foundation for academic success.
 
Word of Mouth 

Our second grader is a reader!  We are so thrilled with his progress in the Reading Together program.  He has enjoyed it immensely and made remarkable strides in his reading ability. The tutor/tutee relationship seems to motivate him to work on his reading skills and he looks to his tutor as his mentor.
—Parent of second-grade tutee  
 
Help struggling readers before they fail.
Help struggling readers before they fail.

 

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