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Course Description
In this course, students build on the language and literacy foundational skills established in Kindergarten and First Grade. The course is structured, systematic, phonic-based (matching the sounds of spoken English with individual letters or groups of letters), multisensory, and scaffolded to include a written spelling component.
Grade Level(s): Second Grade
Related Priority Standards (State &/or National): K-5 Missouri Learning Standards & ELA Priority Standards
Essential Questions
- How do readers create meaning from informational and literary texts?
- How does a student become a skilled reader?
- How do phonemic awareness and phonics impact learning to read?
- How do sound and letter relationships help a student learn to write?
Enduring Understandings/Big Ideas
- Students will understand that sentences are organized into paragraphs to convey meaning.
- Students will decode multisyllabic words in context by applying common letter-sound correspondences.
- Students will use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary
Course-Level Scope & Sequence (Units &/or Skills)
- Lessons 1-25: Short Vowels, Sight Words, and Contractions
- Lessons 26-75: Blends, Sight Words, and Contractions
- Lessons 76-80: Compound Words, Sight Words and Contractions
- Lessons 81-110: Suffixes, Sight Words, and Contractions
- Lessons 111-130: Soft Sounds and Sight Words
- Lessons 131-150: Open (ends with a vowel sound that is spelled with a single vowel letter), Closed (only one vowel and that vowel is followed by a consonant), Silent E Syllables and Syllable Division Patterns
- Lessons 151-165: Prefixes and Sight Words
- Lessons 166-180: Review Suffixes and Syllable Division
Course Resources & Materials: Sonday System Essentials
Date Last Revised/Approved: 2022