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Reading to Your Child
Moms and Dads, read to your child every day. They need to hear good
reading.
Hearing and reading quality literature is most important in building
good vocabulary and modeling good sentence structure.
Reading With Your Child
When you sit down to read with your child, you can read in different
ways. The following methods are used in education to help children model
good reading.
Echo Reading- you read a page or paragraph orally and your child
repeats reading the same selection orally.
Choral Reading- just like a chorus, you and your child read orally
together using the same passage.
Partner Reading- you read a page or paragraph orally and then your
child reads the next page or paragraph
orally.
There are many reading skills to uncover, discover, and learn while
reading with your child.
These skills put together are what we call comprehension.
There are many skills covered in second grade. To make it easier
for you during the summer vacation, discuss the story while you read.
Predict what will happen next, draw conclusions, find the main idea, list
details, find the problem in the story, find the solution, describe the
characters by what they do and what they say.
Have your child ask you questions about the story.
Make reading an enjoyable experience together.
Print out the Dulch Word List. A website that can be used is Jan
Brett's. This is a colorful presentation of the most commonly used words in
the English language. The Dulch Word List will be very good to build sight
words. These words will also be good to learn how to spell.
Reading Book Lists are listed under FAQ on the home page.
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Jump Into Math
Let's develop Number Sense!
We will be counting from 1 to 999. Find "hands on" ways to
practice.
What is a one? What is a group of ten? What is a group of 100?
Make this fun. Can you eat 1 pea? How about eating 10 peas? Who can eat
100 peas? (Mom or Dad)
Place value example: 149 - What is the value of the 1, the 4, and
the 9? (4 groups of 10 with 10 in each group or another way of saying 40)
Master number facts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Second grade takes each fact family to the sum of 19. We start with
the 10's family. Subtraction also goes to the 19 family.
Let's go shopping! Practice using money: pennies, nickels, dimes,
quarters, half-dollars, and dollars. While on vacation have the children
count out the money for that special treat. Don't forget to count your
change!
Is it time to go to bed? Take time for that afternoon nap! Time to
eat? Time to go swimming? Time to leave on a trip? We will study clock to
the hour, half hour, 5 minute intervals.
This is enough math time for now!
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Resources, Games,and Places to Go
The following games and activities were found at the Teacher/Parent Store in
Danbury.
Basic Skills Puzzles by Didax Educational Resources come in various
skills to strengthen phonics. They were found for the following: consonant
blends and digraphs, homonyms, and synonyms.
Rhyme Lotto
Bingo Subtraction
Tangram Pattern Cards
Money Bingo
Puzzles are great for visual discrimination.
Places to visit:
1. Peabody Museum of Natural History at
Yale University
2. Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk
3. Beardsley Zoo in Beardsley Park - One of
America’s Historic Places in CT
Bridgeport, CT
4. The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Resource Books:
1. Daily Summer Activities
Moving from 1-2 Grade
By: Evan-Moor # EMC 1028 website www.evan-moor.com
Educational Publishers
2. Summer Bridge Activities
Grades 1-2
Carson-Dellosa
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Pencil In Some Fun
In order for children to write they need to be fed!
Read to your child daily from quality literature.
Visit interesting places and write one paragraph about something
your child enjoyed. Following the second grade rubrics will make writing a
breeze in September.
After reading a book, complete a story map using complete sentences.
When writing, never begin a sentence with the words (because or and).
Spell correctly!
Make up rhymes while on those long car rides.
Tongue twisters can also be fun!
Language Arts Rubrics
Writing Sentences
1. Capital letter
2. Correct spelling
3. Six or more words in a complete sentence
4. Ending punctuation
5. Correct punctuation where needed
Writing
1. Main idea sentence
2. Three or more supporting details
3.All sentences are to be completed with:
Capital letter
Correct spelling
Six or more words in a complete sentence
Ending punctuation
Correct punctuation where needed
4. Concluding sentence
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