Materials & Resources

• Baldwin's Second Year Reader
• McGuffey's First Reader (pdf) second half or
• First Readers (your choice from reader vlibrary)
• McGuffey's New Eclectic Spelling Book 31-46
• Essentials of Spelling Grades 1-4 grade 2
• Reeds Word Lessons Pages 1-36
• Sander's Union Speller pages 24-47
• Swinton's Word Primer although this is a year one course, it is alright to break it up into several years
• Spelling Lessons for use with spellers above
• Student dictionary for new words Students Keep a record of misspelled and newly learned words.
• Report Free Reading 20 Min a day from reading list below
• Manuscript Brush up then begin Cursive handwriting 2nd 1/2 of year and 12 rules for Cursive

Topics to be covered this year

• Establishing sight vocabulary flashcards Set 5 Set 6 Set 7 Set 8
• Dramatizations and interpretative or oral reading
• Use and meaning of quotation marks in reading
• Story development: beginning, middle, end
• Simple book reviews
• Listening skills
• Organizing ideas and impressions
• Alphabetizing through second letter of a word
• Silent Letter Words Phonics Charts 6-13
• Using dictionary guide words
• Homonyms, synonyms, antonyms
• Methods of word attack

Additional Topics if Time permits

• Writing independently in manuscript form
• Brief and simple letters and journals
• Narration, description, letters, poetry
• Increasing skill in handling books: table of contents, and index
• Word search Factory (Download free)

Reading Read a book of your choice for 20 minutes.

• New Arabian Nights (pdf)
• The Tortoise and the Geese
• Heidi (pdf)
• The Bobbsey Twins At School (pdf) At the Seashore (pdf)
• American Fairy Tales (pdf)
• Daddy Takes Us to the Garden (pdf)
• Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm (pdf)
• Outdoor Girls of Deepdale (pdf)
• Celtic Fairy Tales (pdf)
• The Young Explorer (pdf)
• Daddy Takes Us Skating (pdf)
• The Rover Boys In the Jungle (pdf)
• The Rover Boys in the mountains (pdf)
• Tom Swift and His Motorcycle (pdf)
• Swiss Family Robinson
• Stories to Tell Children 2nd grade (pdf)

Use this form and answer the questions on the form