Discover effective strategies and engaging books for shared reading in second grade. Foster a love for reading and promote active participation in the classroom with these top ideas.
Shared reading is SUPER important. In this blog post, I'll answer the question, "What is shared reading?", explain why it matters so much, and debunk some common myths around shared reading.
In about the second grade, kids typically are ready to start reading chapter books themselves. Today, I’m sharing our favorite chapter books for young readers (around 2nd and 3rd grade). Some of these are my favorite chapter books from childhood, some are ones I used often as a reading tutor, and others are ones we’ve ... Read More about Favorite Beginning Chapter Books & Series {2nd and 3rd grade}
Visualizing the text is such an important reading strategy used for building your students’ reading comprehension. This reading teacher's blog post shares teaching tips, strategies, activities, and resources for teaching visualizing in your classroom (reading crafts, posters and graphic organizers). Helpful for second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade teachers.
This post has some great tips for interactive read alouds - with a printable book list! So helpful for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. #readalouds #teachingreading
I'm sharing tips to help build your students' reading comprehension and NO PREP, standards-based Reading Response Activities for Kindergarten, first and second grade students.
Shared reading is such a valuable part of the day where we can integrate science, poetry, fluency, and phonics all in a 15-minute time frame! I'm sharing five teaching points for shared reading that you can use with any big book or poem for shared reading to help your students progress in reading.
In this post, I discuss the qualities of effective phonics instruction and offer you a science of reading-aligned phonics scope and sequence for Kindergarten, first and second-grade students.