Reading Links
The following sites will help your child practice many of the skills that we
assess in second grade.
Reading
Sight Words...This site will allow your child to practice the 500
most
frequently used words in the English language. If you click on a
list under
voice, your child will hear each sight word three times. This
will help
with reading fluency and word automaticity.
http://curriculum.leeschools.net/words/word%20groups.htm
Word Families Practice... This activity introduces 20 word
families, with
six examples provided for each word family. Learning word
families is a
fast way to increase a students reading vocabulary. It also helps
the
student learn that the ability to decode one word can assist in
decoding
other words with similar alphabet letter patterns.
http://curriculum.leeschools.net/words/First%20100/Families/word%20families.htm
Letter Recognition... The letter recognition activity provides
students an
opportunity to practice learning both the capital and lowercase
letters of
the alphabet. Voice assistance is provided for those students
who are
unable to name the letters independently. Five to six letters
are covered
in each lesson. After the student is taught the letters with
voice
assistance, they move to the practice list to independently name
the letters.
http://curriculum.leeschools.net/words/Letters/letters.htm
Consonant Digraphs... Consonant digraphs are consonant letters
that appear
together and represent a single sound that is different from the
sound of
either letter.
http://curriculum.leeschools.net/words/Consonant%20Digraphs/consonant%20digraphs.htm
Vowel Digraphs... Vowel digraphs are two vowels together, the
first is
pronounced and the second is silent.
http://curriculum.leeschools.net/words/Vowel%20Digraphs/vowel%20digraphs.htm
Letter Blends and Word Reading... Three letter blends are three
consonant
letters that appear together in words and represent sounds that
are smoothly
joined. Each of the sounds can be heard.
http://curriculum.leeschools.net/words/Consonant%20Blends/consonant%20blends.htm
Vowel Dipthongs and Word Reading... Vowel diphthongs are two
vowels, both
are spoken with the stress placed on the first vowel.
http://curriculum.leeschools.net/words/Diphthongs/Diphthongs.htm
Starfall...Children will have a lot of fun learning, practicing,
and
enriching their reading skills on this website.
http://www.starfall.com/
Sight Word Phrases... These phrases contain the first 300 words
which
represent 50% of all the words children encounter in elementary
school
reading.
http://www.travisusd.k12.ca.us/foxboro/staff_pages/shari-heroutnew/2004-2005/wordwall/page/index.htm
Activities for practicing rhyming with your child
http://www.brainpopjr.com/reading/phonics/rhymingwords/grownups.weml#parents
The Rhyme Game... Your child can practice rhyming words at three
different
levels: word families, vowels endings, and words that rhyme but
are not
spelled the same.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/words/dg3.shtml
Here is an interactive website with Clifford the Big Red Dog,
which promotes
sound matching.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/phonics/index.htm
This site will help you practice your spelling words and also
your word wall words that your teacher will be testing you on!
http://www.spellingcity.com/Community.html
Other Resources