What is Second Grade Learning This Month?
Reading Workshop:
Readers will pay close attention to characters as they read. Students will think about how characters respond to events and challenges, along with thinking about character’s feelings throughout the turns of the text. Through this close work on with characters, readers will “ask and answer who, what, where, when, why and how” to show their understanding of the key details within the text. Readers will practice walking in the characters' shoes, taking on the events and challenges their characters face.
Helpful Tips for Parents:
- Ask your student to tell you about the characters in the book they are reading. What are the characters' feelings? Do their feelings change in the book? If so, what made them change?
- Listen to your child read out loud. Make sure they pause at the end of a sentence, and change their voice to match the tone of the story!
Writing Workshop:
In writing workshop, students will be working on informational writing. Students will be writing about topics they know a lot of information about. Writers will be breaking down their topics into separate sections, and writing as much as they can concerning different areas of that topic.
Helpful Tips for Parents:
- Encourage your child to reread their writing.
- Ask your child what they are an expert in, and know a lot about. Then, let them tell you everything they know about that topic. Discuss key words that are important to know and understand if someone were to learn about that specific topic.
- Ask your child if they checked for capitalization at the beginning of their sentences and ended in punctuation.
