Second Grade

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  • Links to Phonics Tools Online
     
  • Lexile and Running Records of Houghton Mifflin Stories for Second Grade
     
  • Organize Houghton Mifflin with a Reading Theme Box
     
  • Reading Responses for Novels (from Karen O-Connor)
     
  • The "Teacher Idea Sharing" link on the Santa Maria Bonita School District Reading Website has some excellent resources for Houghton Mifflin. You'll find focus walls and word pattern boards as well as grade level resources.
    
     
• Professional Readings

  • The Six Ts of Effective Elementary Literacy Instruction by Richard Allington -- This article describes the six components essential to reading achievement:  Texts, Time, Teach, Talk, Tasks and Test.
     

  • Which Text do I use for What Purpose? This article describes the different types of texts we use and gives a brief guideline of how to use a variety of texts for each grade level.