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 the teacher with explicit phonics instruction through systematic and repeated modeling of grade-level standards. They contain lessons that give students frequent opportunities to decode phonetically spelled words. Materials provide daily opportunities for students to build, manipulate, spell, and encode words using common and newly-taught sound and spelling patterns. However, materials include limited opportunities for purposeful teacher modeling that demonstrates the use of phonics to encode sounds to letters and words in writing tasks. The lessons provide students with frequent opportunities to read grade-level high-frequency words in sentences in the Foldable Decodables and on worktext pages. Materials provide students with multiple and varied opportunities over the course of the year to learn, practice, and apply word analysis strategies through interactive activities. Materials provide varied, frequent opportunities over the course of the year for students to gain oral reading fluency. Materials provide a Teacher Guide that includes a Scope and Sequence and Lesson Pacing Guide, along with instructional routines and lesson targets. Materials offer two flexible pathways to support teaching and learning and adult-level explanations for each of the foundational skills in the Research Base Guide, Articulation Guide, the Detailed Guidance for Delivery of Instruction document, and the Savvas Realize teacher training platform. Materials delineate a scope and sequence with a cohesive, intentional sequence of phonics instruction and practice to build toward application of skills and provide a clear research-based explanation for the order of phonics instruction. Materials regularly and systematically provide various assessment opportunities over the course of the year to assess students’ progress toward mastery and independence of word recognition (high-frequency words or irregularly spelled words) and analysis for each module. Digital materials enhance student learning through teacher resources and interactive activities. The digital materials include opportunities for teachers to personalize learning for all students using adaptive or other technological innovations.