2nd grade Instructional Guide

2nd Grade Winter/Spring Focus of Instruction & Materials

Group 1 : Benchmark Rate ORF Winter Accuracy is 96% or Higher Spring Accuracy is 97% or Higher Focus of Instruction: Comprehension ● Monitoring for meaning ● Identifying, summarizing, and extending main ideas ● Self-monitoring and fx-up strategies and awareness of reading for understanding ● Teaching important words directly and word-learning strategies ● Extended reading, writing, and speaking opportunities tied to Core subjects Instructional Materials: ● Wonders Differentiated Instruction Small Group On level or Beyond Level Readers and Lessons ● Wonders Classroom Lesson Library ● Wonders Research and Inquiry Lessons ● Wonders Extend and Connect Lessons ● Wonders Extended Writing Lessons ● 95 Phonics Core Program Decodable ● PALS materials ● Reading Software ● Wonders Digital Activities ● Software Inaccurate— Winter below96% Inaccurate— Spring below97% Focus of Instruction: Digging Deeper into Needs ● Explicit modeling of accurate reading ● Self-monitoring—table tap when student makes an error. This will help the student slow down and read more accurately. ● Challenge student to read a portion of the text with 2 or fewer errors ● Teach student to adjust rate of reading to type of text and purpose for reading Instructional Materials: ● Wonders Differentiated Instruction Small Group On-Level lessons ● Wonders Decodable ReadersWord and Phrase practice for Sight Word Fluency ● Wonders Decodable Readers ● PALS Group3 : Benchmark Rate ORF

Group2 : Below Benchmark Rate ORF

Winter Accuracy is 96% or Higher Spring Accuracy is 97% or Higher

Focus of Instruction: Fluency ● Building automaticity, but do not ignore making meaning ● Repeated readings ● Word or phrase level automaticity in addition to passages, if necessary ● Grouping words to make meaning, pacing punctuation ● Read for main idea, summarizing, and/or text elements Instructional Materials: ● 95 Phonics Core Program Sound/Spelling Cards ● Wonders Differentiated Instruction Small Group On-Level lessons ● Wonders Decodable ReadersWord and Phrase practice for Sight Word Fluency ● PALS Group4 : Below Benchmark Rate ORF Inaccurate— Winter below96% Inaccurate— Spring below97% Focus of Instruction: Phonics and/or Phonological Awareness ● Missing phonemic awareness skills ● Missing decoding skills ● Missing sight words skills ● Missing multisyllabic decoding skills ● Applying skills to connected text at instructional level ● Building fuency at independent level ● Substantial practice applying phonics to new text and writing Instructional Materials: ● Wonders Differentiated Instruction Small Group Approaching Level Lessons ● Wonders Decodable Readers ● 95 Phonics Lesson Library (PLL) ● 95 Phonological Awareness Kit ● 95 Phonics Core Program Sound/Spelling Cards ● PALS ● CSD Decodable Database