Grade 2 language arts guidance

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  • July 6, 2015 at 7:57 pm
    Marie Barck
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    Trying to plan out language arts for my second grader. He is quite a fluent reader. I’m just not sure what to do next.

    Last year he finished all the recommended Pathway readers for grade 2 both track A and B (Busy Times thru More New Friends). He also did the Child’s Copybook Readers 1-3 mainly for copywork.  At the end of last year we read a little from the McGuffey’s Third Eclectic Reader and that went well.

    So I am wondering if I should use that (McGuffey’s or the Hymns in Prose for Children recommended in Grade 3 track B) or if I really need to keep having him read aloud from a reader every day?  I would still plan to have him read aloud at least once a week if we discontinue the daily read aloud.

    My other question, should I start him in the Spelling Wisdom and Using Language Well this year or is it too early for a 7-8 yr. old? I will have both these resources on hand anyway for my 4th grader.

    July 7, 2015 at 5:26 am
    Melanie32
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    I would just have him read aloud from real books every day. You could use Spelling Wisdom for copy work but I wouldn’t do the more formal parts of the curriculum. I would save those for when he’s a bit older.

    July 7, 2015 at 7:11 am
    missceegee
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    Spelling Wisdom and Using Language Well books 1 – the first 70 exceed uses are set up to be copywork/transcription only and no dictation. They include the gentle intro of grammar points orally. I’m going to use it with dd8. This de reads at a high school level and is certainly ready for this challenge. In fact, we will do at least French dictation (some but not all words) bc she is so ready.

    July 7, 2015 at 12:31 pm
    Wings2fly
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    Charlotte recommended dictation at age 10.  We use Spelling Wisdom starting at age 9 with some transcription and start doing some dictation, slowly, at close to age 10, transitioning to full dictation for the school year they are age 10.

    I believe reading aloud is still good practice for them, even only a few times a week when they are older, for elocution.  But at age 8 and 9, I still want a daily read aloud for 5 to 10 minutes.  They can read other books on their own though.  Hymns in Prose is a great book, but would not last a whole year.  We did it before the copywork was available.  You could continue on with Pathway readers still, if you like those books.  Or McGuffey would work fine.  We use readers from the Sonlight reader lists.  Here is grades 3 and 4, and most are real books available at the library:

    http://www.sonlight.com/subjects/readers/readers-3/

    http://www.sonlight.com/subjects/readers/readers-4-5/

    There are also American History readers for grades 4-5 included in Core D.

    At about 2nd grade, you could start to teach cursive if you haven’t done so already.

    July 7, 2015 at 6:48 pm
    Marie Barck
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    Thank you ladies so much! It is so nice to have a sounding board to all these questions and ideas running around in my head!

    I never thought of using good living books for read a-louds or utilizing Spelling Wisdom for copywork. Sometimes I forget to think outside the box! Yes, I think it would be better to wait for the spelling-test dictation part for him.

    Good advice on keeping up the daily readings. I had him read to me today and noticed that a few times he wasn’t pausing between sentences. So he really does need to keep doing the daily readings out loud and that will also help guard against incorrect pronunciations and the temptation to skip over challenging words.

    Thanks for the book links. I would guess he is reading right around a 4th-5th grade level. There are several in both grade categories that I think he would really enjoy and a few he has already read on his own. So I will probably do the McGuffey reader because we already have that and/or throw in some living books. Both my kids really enjoyed the Pathway Readers, also. I guess I didn’t realize there were more!

     

    For copywork I’m thinking of Print to Cursive Proverbs for this year.  Then next year he could do Hymns in Prose with that copywork book and either another reader and/or more living books.

    Still wondering if I should combine my 2nd grader with my 4th grader for the Using Language Well book 1 since the first years lessons don’t require dictation. I know 2nd grader doesn’t have to do grammar so soon, it would really just be a mom convenience. I don’t know if that’s the best reason, lol.

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