Elementary Integrated Language Arts - Grade 2
The Second Grade Integrated Language Arts Program encourages students to engage in a greater variety of reading and writing. They continue to increase their knowledge of phonetic patterns and vocabulary. Direct teaching and daily practice of reading strategies continue to be important until students can independently use reading strategies such strategies as self-monitoring, predicting, using prior knowledge and retelling as they read. Children respond by discussing the overall text; interpreting various elements in the selection; connecting the text to a personal experience; or by analyzing the author’s craft.
Writing experiences may include Writer’s Workshop, reading responses, maintaining journals, or letter writing. Resources such as Word Walls, Quick Words, and dictionaries are available in the classroom. As students demonstrate a working knowledge of spelling and language conventions, they are expected to use them in their oral or written responses.
INDICATORS FROM THE MARYLAND VOLUNTARY STATE CURRICULUM:
The second grade child will:
- Decode words in grade-level texts
- Read orally from familiar text at an appropriate rate
- Read grade-level text accurately
- Read grade-level text with expression
- Develop and apply vocabulary through exposure to a variety of texts
- Develop a conceptual understanding of new words
- Understand, acquire, and use new vocabulary
- Develop comprehension skills through exposure to a variety of print and non-print texts, including traditional print and electronic texts
- Use strategies to prepare for reading (before reading)
- Use strategies to make meaning from text (during reading)
- Use strategies to demonstrate understanding of the text (after reading)
- Compose texts using the prewriting and drafting strategies of effective writers and speakers
- Compose oral, written, and visual presentations that express personal ideas, inform, and persuade
- Compose texts using the revising and editing strategies of effective writers and speakers
- Identify how language choices in writing and speaking affect thoughts and feelings
- Use effective details, words, and figurative language in the student's own composing
- Explain how textual changes in a work clarify meaning or fulfill a purpose
- Locate, retrieve, and use information from various sources to accomplish a purpose
HELPFUL PARENT TIPS:
- Read to and with your child every night. THIS SHOULD BE FUN! Read a variety of materials. Point out new vocabulary and ideas.
- Immerse your child in an environment full of print. Set up an area to engage in reading. Make available books, magazines, newspapers, etc.
- Explore books together. Point out new vocabulary and ideas.
- Encourage your child to write thank -you notes. Writing the sounds your child hears along with basic sight words reinforces what your child has already learned.
- Visit the public library so your child can choose all types of books, read-along tapes, and magazines, and check them out on his/her own library card.
- Let your child see you read. Talk with your child about what you have read.
- Write to relatives and friends: letters, thank you notes, and postcards. Practice writing return address.
- Help your child continue to learn basic sight words. Make words using letter tiles or magnetic letters.
- Make lists: job lists, shopping lists, holiday and birthday lists.
- Write stories on the computer.
- Make a family scrapbook. Help your child make captions for the pictures. This encourages reading and writing.
- Begin a diary or journal. Let your child write his/her own ideas. You may wish to respond to his/her ideas in writing to model adult spelling and conventions.
- Read and follow directions to complete a project: cooking, sewing, and models.
