2nd Grade Report Overview

The Grade 2 materials meet the expectations for alignment to standards and research-based practices for foundational skills instruction. Materials provide teachers with explicit instructional routines, systematic and repeated modeling, and instruction for students to hear, say, encode, and read the newly taught grade-level phonics pattern. In addition, materials provide students with frequent opportunities to build, manipulate, spell, and encode words using common and newly-taught sound and spelling patterns phonics. Materials include systematic and explicit instruction of high-frequency words and frequent opportunities for the teacher to model the spelling and reading of high-frequency words in isolation. Materials provide frequent, explicit instruction of word analysis and decoding strategies and include frequent, systematic opportunities for explicit instruction in fluency along with opportunities for students to hear fluent reading of grade-level text. The materials include a well-defined teacher resource for content presentation, which includes a detailed scope and sequence, a weekly planner, and detailed information and instructional routines that help the teacher to effectively implement all foundational skills content. The program utilizes lesson plans that are research-based, including foundational concepts, such as phonological and phonemic awareness, alphabetic principles, phonics, and high-frequency words. Phonics skills aligned to the program’s scope and sequence to address securing phonics. Materials regularly and systematically offer assessment opportunities that measure student progress in word recognition and analysis and include checks for understanding within the lessons, weekly formative assessments, and unit summative assessments that measure student progress. Materials provide regular support for differentiation and reteaching to students needing additional support.