Use Alphabet Reading Comprehension Workbook to build student reading comprehension skills using the Alphabet Stories.
Using this Sight Words Reading Comprehension Workbook, students build their reading comprehension and phonics skills while reading sight words.
UsingCharacter Reading Comprehension Workbook, students can have all of the passages about different character traits all in one workbook.
This Holidays Reading Comprehension Workbook is a fun way to teach your kids about the Holidays while learning reading comprehension skills, literacy, and test-taking skills.
UsingCharacter Reading Comprehension Workbook, students can have all of the passages about different life science topics all in one workbook.
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While working with our Sight Words Coloring Pages Workbook, your students will color the sight word using their favorite colors. They will then practice
Using Consonant Sounds Reading Comprehension Workbook, students can have all of the passages about different consonant sounds all in one workbook.
Using this Vowel Sounds Reading Comprehension Workbook, you can have all of the passages about different vowel sounds all in one place.
First Grade Reading Comprehension Workbook Volume 1 includes fifty of our premium First Grade level reading comprehension stories, test questions, and progress reports.
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This Second Grade Reading Comprehension Workbook Volume 1 includes fifty of our premium Second Grade level reading comprehension stories, test questions, and progress reports.
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Growing readers, growing mathematicians
Second grade is where skills get fast and flexible. In math, kids become fluent with facts within 20, add and subtract within 100 with regrouping, and learn place value up to 1,000: 482 = 400 + 80 + 2. They also count money, tell time to five minutes and measure in inches and centimeters. In reading, kids master vowel teams, read sight words on the spot and read with expression. Writing grows too: complete sentences, plural nouns, pronouns and editing their own work. The best part? Watching a 2nd grader read a whole chapter book they chose themselves.
Second graders love to show what they know. These moves give them the chance.
Write a sentence with three mistakes and fix one out loud, explaining why. Let kids find the other two. Then hand out the fixing sentences page so they can play editor on their own.
Why it works: showing first, practicing together, then letting kids try alone is the "gradual release" model teachers have relied on for decades (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withFixing Sentences WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Play the vowel teams game for five minutes at the start of reading, every day for two weeks. Short daily practice keeps ai, ee and oa sharp while you move on to new patterns.
Why it works: spreading practice out over days is one of the two most effective study methods in a major research review (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withVowel Teams GameGamesOpen it →Before solving a word problem, kids draw what is happening: 14 apples, then 6 more. Partners explain their drawing to each other before writing the equation. Pictures and talk catch most "wrong operation" mistakes.
Why it works: using clear, consistent math words out loud is one of the U.S. Department of Education's recommendations for elementary math.
Try it withAddition and Subtraction Word Problems WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Second graders are ready for games with a little challenge.
WorksheetsHide treats around the room and give directions: "Take 5 steps north, then 3 east!"
Open Compass Rose Worksheet →
GamesKids answer quick questions about dates and days of the week in a speedy game.
Open Calendar Game →
WorksheetsKids swap items and use possessive pronouns to return them: "This is her pencil!"
Open Possessive Pronouns Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Alphabet Reading Comprehension Workbook, Sight Words Reading Comprehension Workbook and Character Reading Comprehension Workbook.
By the end of 2nd grade, kids should add and subtract within 100, know addition and subtraction facts within 20 from memory, understand place value to 1,000, count money and tell time to five minutes.
Second graders typically read early chapter books with growing fluency. They decode vowel teams and longer words, read many sight words automatically, and can retell and answer questions about what they read.
Read together every day, practice math facts with quick games, and let your child help count money or measure while cooking. Short, regular practice works best.
They write complete sentences, short paragraphs, opinion pieces and simple stories. They also learn to capitalize, punctuate and edit their own work.
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