2nd Grade Report Overview

Materials provide explicit instruction in phonics through systematic and repeated modeling within daily lessons over the course of the year, including phonics lessons that provide teachers with systematic and repeated instruction for students to hear, say, encode, and read each newly taught grade-level phonics pattern. Materials include regular teacher modeling and student practice opportunities in building, manipulating, and encoding phonemes and words through detailed sample scripts for teachers to use when modeling. Materials include systematic and explicit instruction in reading common high-frequency words by sight within the High-frequency Words lessons found throughout all units and modules. Materials include regular explicit instruction and modeling of word analysis strategies through teacher scripts and teacher modeling. Materials include frequent opportunities for explicit instruction in the fluency elements of accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings using grade-level texts through lessons with shared readers and decodable texts. Materials include lessons to support students in confirming or self-correcting errors in the Fluency Mini-Lessons and Routines tab; however, these lessons are optional, so all students may not receive explicit instruction in confirming and/or self-correcting errors. Materials provide a well-defined teacher resource for content presentation through well-detailed lesson plans from pre-instruction to lesson videos to post-instruction. Materials contain lesson plans that utilize a research-based design for early literacy instruction. Materials contain a clear and evidence-based explanation for the expected hierarchy for teaching phonics skills, and the materials contain a phonics scope and sequence of instruction and practice based on the expected hierarchy. Materials include a variety of decodable texts that contain grade-level phonics skills aligned to the program’s scope and sequence to ensure that students secure newly-taught phonics skills, and materials provide ample opportunities to review previously-taught phonics skills. Materials include 32 decodable texts with high-frequency words that align with the program’s scope and sequence and provide students with multiple opportunities to encounter the words and the decodable texts. Materials include regular assessment opportunities in phonics in and out of context. Assessments include daily Observational Checklists and digital practice interactivities, formative Unit Assessments, and summative Interim Assessments. Materials include standards correlation information within daily lessons and attached to specific questions, tasks, and assessments.

Materials include some support for teaching ELL students. The materials provide general information in the Program Guide through the Frequently Asked Questions section, which outlines some best practices for different areas of foundational skills. Materials include extensive opportunities for reteaching and enrichment. The Foundations A-Z digital materials, which include teacher Lesson Plans, Professional Development, Resources, Student Progress reports, e-Books, and student games, are platform neutral and are compatible with multiple Internet browsers and operating systems. Materials support the effective use of technology and visual design to enhance student learning through eBooks, such as Shared readers, Decodable texts and Grade-level texts, and animated student games and videos. The students’ digital interactive learning videos, games, and assessments are well-organized and visually appealing and are designed to enhance student learning.