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Houghton Mifflin Reading Themes
Email: deonnamathias@yahoo.com
This site was created so parents will have a better idea of what’s happening in our classroom. Your child will go through one story per week until we finish the theme. At the end of every theme we will have a theme test. We will cover six themes. To view the book title, spelling, vocabulary, and phonics learning tools click on the Language Arts Themes page.
This is a typical weekly schedule
Monday- Students are introduced to the theme, comprehension concept, grammar, phonics lesson, and spelling pretest. Students will also listen to the read aloud story.
Tuesday: Introduce the vocabulary words, high frequency words, and grammar concept. Listen to the story as a class and answer comprehension questions. A handwriting lesson may also be completed during this time.
Wednesday: Write journal about the story and share with the class. Discuss the current skill, practice it and may do a small project to build on the skill.
Thursday: Review story, phonics, and comprehension skill. Practice English concepts. Review spelling words and vocabulary words. Comprehension Plus workbook may also be used on this day. If assigned, book reports may be due on this day.
Friday: Students will take the spelling test and reading vocabulary test. We will use the remaining time to review skills and information.
Your child will go through one story per week until we finish the theme. At the end of every theme we will have a theme test
Religion will be incorporated into our lessons everyday.
Second Grade
Curriculum
Second grade
religion prepares the children for the reception of Reconciliation and
Eucharist. The learner will review their Baptism and the fact that they are
members of God’s family, the Church. The students explore God’s commandments.
The children discover the power of God’s love through His forgiveness. The
children also study the mass so that they have a better understanding of the
greatest prayer of our church. The children grow in an appreciation of the gift
of Jesus of himself in the Eucharist.
Second graders grow
in their new ability to read. They develop their ability to comprehend and to
make predictions in their reading. The learners work on their ability to decode
unknown words and develop their reading vocabulary. The children will be able
to find the main idea in a selection and summarize what they have read. The
children are also introduced to examples of children’s literature.
In second grade the
children learn to recognize complete sentences. The children also learn to
identify the types of sentences and what punctuation is needed. The children
also learn to identify nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs and how they are
used in a sentence. The emphasis is using these skills to write paragraphs,
letters, and reports.
The children will
review the sounds of consonants and short and long vowel sounds. The children
will use suffixes, prefixes, and hard and soft “c” and “g”. They will discover
the sounds of blends, digraphs and “r “controlled vowels. They will also use
contractions, synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms. These skills will be integrated
into their reading.
The children review the correct method of
writing manuscript letters and numbers. The students are introduced to cursive
writing in December. Emphasis is placed on legibility and self-evaluation.