Second Grade
Help your child have a successful second grade year.
Skills to Begin Second Grade
Learn the skills seven-year olds need when beginning second grade.
Learn the skills seven-year olds need when beginning second grade.
What Second Graders Learn
What your seven-year old will learn in second grade
What your seven-year old will learn in second grade
Learning to Read - Ideas and Activities to Learn Fluency
It is possible to help your child become a more fluent reader. Beginning around first grade, use these teacher-recommended strategies at home to build fluency.
It is possible to help your child become a more fluent reader. Beginning around first grade, use these teacher-recommended strategies at home to build fluency.
Learning to Read - Ideas and Activities to Build Vocabulary
Make learning new words a fun part of your family routine. Encourage your kids to ask if they don't know or understand a word they see or hear. Other ways to increase vocabulary are to play lots of word games such as Scattergories and Outburst. When you read books aloud that are interesting but a bit above his reading level, you expand his vocabulary and comprehension. Play word games online or make your own with these ideas. Next, find ways to make vocabulary homework more interesting and fun.
Make learning new words a fun part of your family routine. Encourage your kids to ask if they don't know or understand a word they see or hear. Other ways to increase vocabulary are to play lots of word games such as Scattergories and Outburst. When you read books aloud that are interesting but a bit above his reading level, you expand his vocabulary and comprehension. Play word games online or make your own with these ideas. Next, find ways to make vocabulary homework more interesting and fun.
Learning to Read - Ideas and Activities to Learn to Spell and Write Words
Learning to spell is an ongoing developmental process that takes lots of practice. Make it a regular part of your home learning routine with online spelling fun and different strategies for practicing weekly spelling words.
Learning to spell is an ongoing developmental process that takes lots of practice. Make it a regular part of your home learning routine with online spelling fun and different strategies for practicing weekly spelling words.
Language Development in the Elementary Years
What parents can do to enrich children's language development during the elementary years.
What parents can do to enrich children's language development during the elementary years.
Help for Your Struggling Reader
Developing readers progress from basic skills to fluency and comprehension of increasingly difficult print reading during elementary school. The components of good reading ability rely on different brain process, beginning with the acquisition of basic reading skills.
Developing readers progress from basic skills to fluency and comprehension of increasingly difficult print reading during elementary school. The components of good reading ability rely on different brain process, beginning with the acquisition of basic reading skills.
Second Grade Skills
Links to learning games for second grade academics from Internet4Classrooms.
Links to learning games for second grade academics from Internet4Classrooms.
Launching Young Readers - Second Grade
Tips for parents of second graders from PBS' Launching Young Readers series.
Tips for parents of second graders from PBS' Launching Young Readers series.
Your Second Grader
Helpful information for parents about second grade from Family Education Network.
Helpful information for parents about second grade from Family Education Network.