2nd Grade Report Overview

The Open Court Reading Foundational Skills Kits for Grade 2 partially meet the expectations for alignment to standards and research-based practices for foundational skills instruction. Materials contain explicit instructions for systematic and repeated teacher modeling of most grade-level phonics standards; however, opportunities for students to learn to distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled words are limited; particularly long and short e vowel sounds. The materials include explicit, systematic teacher-level instruction of modeling that demonstrates the use of phonics to encode sounds to letters and words in writing tasks. Materials include some systematic and explicit instruction of high-frequency words. Materials include explicit instruction of word analysis strategies and some opportunities for explicit instruction and practice of word solving strategies to decode unfamiliar words. Materials provide systematic and explicit instruction and practice in fluency; however, fluency is modeled infrequently by the teacher. Materials do not provide explicit lessons for the teacher in confirming and self-correcting errors in fluency.