Reading and Writing Workshop:
Students will be taught a specific skill during our daily mini-lessons. Then, students will be given independent work time to apply their newly learned skill(s) through reading or writing. I will hold conferences with students to guide their progress. Each student will have the opportunity to share their knowledge through partnerships, small group, or whole class experiences.
Reading Workshop Units:
Reading Growth Spurts - Students will take charge of their reading, use prior knowledge, figure out hard words, understand the author's craft and build big ideas about the books they read.
Becoming Experts in Nonfiction - Students will learn more about familiar topics and grow new understanding about new topics, work on solving words, vocabulary development and comparing/contrasting information across text.
Bigger Books Means Amping Up Reading Power - Students learn strategies to build three foundational reading skills: fluency, figurative language and comprehension.
Series Book Clubs - Students work within book clubs to study author's craft to understand their word choice, figurative language, punctuation and patterns that bring feelings to the reader.
Writing Workshop Units:
Narrative - Students will write engaging narratives, stretch their Small Moment and write with detail.
Opinion Writing - Students will gather evidence from text and create persuasive arguments.
Non-fiction - Students will write about topics of interest and implement facts from their research.
Poetry - Students will explore with language, use line breaks to express meaning and rhythm, use visualization and figures of speech to make writing clear and powerful.
Students will be taught a specific skill during our daily mini-lessons. Then, students will be given independent work time to apply their newly learned skill(s) through reading or writing. I will hold conferences with students to guide their progress. Each student will have the opportunity to share their knowledge through partnerships, small group, or whole class experiences.
Reading Workshop Units:
Reading Growth Spurts - Students will take charge of their reading, use prior knowledge, figure out hard words, understand the author's craft and build big ideas about the books they read.
Becoming Experts in Nonfiction - Students will learn more about familiar topics and grow new understanding about new topics, work on solving words, vocabulary development and comparing/contrasting information across text.
Bigger Books Means Amping Up Reading Power - Students learn strategies to build three foundational reading skills: fluency, figurative language and comprehension.
Series Book Clubs - Students work within book clubs to study author's craft to understand their word choice, figurative language, punctuation and patterns that bring feelings to the reader.
Writing Workshop Units:
Narrative - Students will write engaging narratives, stretch their Small Moment and write with detail.
Opinion Writing - Students will gather evidence from text and create persuasive arguments.
Non-fiction - Students will write about topics of interest and implement facts from their research.
Poetry - Students will explore with language, use line breaks to express meaning and rhythm, use visualization and figures of speech to make writing clear and powerful.
All students will be reading a selection of "Just Right" books.
You can find "Just Right" books for home too!
Click on the link below . . .
Brighton Area Schools does recommended that 2nd Graders read for at least 20 minutes each night.
Would you like your child to bring home a "Just Right Book" from school?
I do lend books from my classroom library to students.
All I ask is that the books are well cared for at home!
What should my child do while they read?
Preview
• Look at the cover and title.
• Look at some of the pictures and read some of the text.
Question
• Ask who, what, when, where, why and how.
• Decide if what you’ve read makes sense.
Predict
• Wonder about what will happen next.
• Make guesses and read ahead to see if your predictions are correct.
Infer
• Imagine the details.
• Use what to understand what the author means.
Connect
• Relate what you’ve read to what you know, and to your thoughts and feelings.
• Compare what you’ve read to other texts and to the world around you.
Summarize
• Organize and connect the details.
• Draw your own conclusion.
Evaluate
• Think about what you’ve read.
• What did you learn?
• Was it important to you? Why or why not?
• Did you like it? Why or why not?