2nd Grade Report Overview

From Phonics to Reading Grade 2 materials provide instruction in all foundational skills standards. The materials reviewed meet the criteria for materials emphasize explicit phonics instruction through systematic and repeated modeling. For examples of explicit instruction, it is imperative that the teacher reference the Instructional Guides. Materials provide frequent opportunities for students to practice reading words containing new and review phonics elements through decoding by phoneme and reading complete words. Materials include limited explicit, systematic teacher-level instruction of teacher modeling that demonstrates the use of phonics to encode sounds to letters and words in writing tasks. Instructional materials include recurring instructional routines explicitly model and teach both reading and spelling of high-frequency words, primarily using the Read-Spell-Write routine. Materials provide explicit instruction in phoneme/grapheme recognition, syllabication and morpheme analysis using the Word Study routines and when introducing new sound-spelling patterns in the Blend It exercises. Instructional materials meet the criteria for instructional opportunities are built into the materials for systematic, evidence-based, explicit instruction in fluency. Explicit instruction in and modeling of phrasing, expression, intonation, rate, and accuracy is included in From Fluency to Comprehension: Routines and Minilessons and in Teacher’s Guide to Fluency.