Reading
Self Selected Reading
Self Selected Reading is a daily favorite in second grade. Students self select three books from our library in our classroom. The books in our room are leveled according to Reading Recovery levels. Students are able to select books by the number that I have placed on their self selected reading folder. These books are kept in the student's desk and are traded in when the student finishes the books. I conference with students about the books in the folder. Running records are also recorded several times a year. This is information that tells accuracy, fluency, and comprehension when reading.
Houghton Mifflin Reading Anthology
Students also have a reading book on a second grade reading level. The reading book is divided into themes with groups of stories relating to each theme. The following themes that our reading book is divided into include:
*friends
*funny business
*nonfiction
*growing up
*Tomie DePaola
*fables
*adventure
Activities are designed around the
stories we are reading and the skills we are learning and practicing.
Graphic organizers, story maps, comprehension sheets, skill
activities, etc. are just a few of the things we do in relation to
the stories we read.
One of the activities we do when we
read about dinosaurs in our nonfiction unit is to write a report
about a dinosaur and then design the dinosaur out of clay and create
a setting for it.
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