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What to do for second grade reading lessons?
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My second grader (will be 8 years old at the end of May) has just completed the original Delightful Reading Kit. He is really reading very well for his age. However, I’m a little lost on where to move to next. Is Spelling Wisdom our next step? Will it help him to continue to become a more fluent reader? Or is there another lesson book on reading that I’m missing? We have one more term before the end of second grade, and I noticed Spelling Wisdom is recommended for grade 3 and above. I don’t want to rush him into dictation lessons early, but what should we do for reading lessons for this last 12 weeks (and summer)? We have been doing daily copy work too, but he really lacks confidence in writing beyond copy work. Advice please?
For second grade, I just have them read aloud everyday. Mostly from a Mcguffey’s reader or early reader books like Frog and Toad or Christian Liberty Nature Readers. I also encourage them to read picture books on their own. For 2nd, I’d just continue with copywork…something like Print to Cursive Proverbs would be good if they are ready for cursive instruction. Otherwise, the Child’s Copybook Readers would be a good choice.
My second-grader just reads aloud with me every day. We’ve progressed through several different easy-readers and now we read several pages from a chapter book every day.
She also does copywork. We use English Lessons Through Literature, so she has copywork to complete in there almost every day.
Another suggestion if you want to have your son do some writing is to take a sentence or two of his oral narration and have him copy it onto handwriting paper or picture that he’s drawn.
The purpose of Spelling Wisdom is learning spelling through prepared dictation exercises. Spelling Wisdom is not for reading fluency.
Did you use the Pathway Readers with Delightful Reading? If not, you could use Busy Times, More Busy Times, New Friends, and More New Friends for reading practice. If he has read all of those, you could use Hymns in Prose for Children.
Melissa…
My son will be 8 at the end of June. He also started reading very early and learned very quickly. For this whole year, we have simply read and read. I haven’t given him ‘formal’ reading lessons since fall of last year. He just caught on so quickly. (I only did All about Reading Level 1 and 2. I never did 3 and 4. Just using their readers. I think this is what convinced me that word building really works. Because once he sees a word, he can pretty much read it in other ‘forms’. I use Delightful Reading with my daughter. Although I am using the All About Reading Readers with her.)
I sent a post, just like you, to this site. I was like, “Is this it?” He is reading, now what? 🙂 Everyone said just have him read and read. So, that is what we are doing. We have read the Blaze series. We have read Pathway books. We have the All About Reading readers. I am going to introduce the Burgess books next and just keep reading with him.
I don’t know what I will do next year yet. I am hoping to finish all the readers I have by the end of summer.
For now, we just read!:-) I see his vocabulary expanding and he seems to have no problems advancing to higher level books. It really is amazing to watch a child learn how to read and how it expands their universe!
Blessings,
Renee
Thank you everyone for your reply.
Karen- We have not used the Pathway Readers. In past years he read the Frog and Toad Series and the Billy & Blaze series, so he is reading beyond that level (if those are comparable to the level of any you have mentioned).
He is currently on book 5 of The Sugar Creek Gang Series chapter books and reads these both silently to himself and aloud to me. He gives good oral narrations of these books and I try to pick out difficult words that I think he would need help sounding out, but I have a really hard time finding words to stump him! How do I determine which readers from the ones you have suggested would be on his level? I wish I could buy them all to just find out, but we are on a tight budget.
Words he has been stumped with recently and wrote down in his word notebook are “Stenosis, Plaque, Simplify (he said “simply”), mischievous, and disgustedly”. Might any of the readers you mentioned be suitable for him based off of this?
After looking at the samples, it looks like “Hymns in Prose” might be the best choice for our next step, would you agree?
I agree that he is beyond the Pathway Readers. You could continue having him read chapter books like the ones he is reading. However, if you think he needs something that is more like a reader, then Hymns in Prose for Children would be a good choice. You will not need the teacher book for Hymns in Prose; that is for children who still need word building exercises.
I would encourage you to have him read to you a couple times each week from a chapter book or Hymns in Prose for Children (whichever you choose to use) so you can be aware of any pronunciation or word decoding problems he might be having and to help him develop a good reading voice.
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