https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy Grade 2 Ramp Up Your Reading and Phonics en-us 2021-08-26 13:56:04 UTC 2025-12-16 01:54:44 UTC hello@padlet.com spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698513603 Today students will listen to Maybe Something Beautiful by F. Isabel Campoy being read aloud. Throughout the read aloud students will be invited to pause and think and talk. It will be helpful for students to have a reading partner nearby that they can share their thinking with.

]]> 2021-08-26 14:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698513603 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698529236 Today students will be invited to launch this new unit and get to know their new virtual teacher, Lizzie. Students might also spend time today getting to know one another to begin building relationships within your learning community.]]> 2021-08-26 14:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698529236 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698530777 Today students will work to read and write words with short medial vowels. Using their Vowel Shields, they will write words on white boards, switching beginning, middle, or ending letters to create new words. This is a new game for readers called Switcharoo. To be sure they are matching the appropriate vowel, it is important that they stretch the word, saying it slowly, to hear the medial vowel sound.]]> 2021-08-26 14:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698530777 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698533245 Today your students will make a plan for their independent reading time by choosing which books they will read today and making a stack of books.]]> 2021-08-26 14:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698533245 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698537037 Today students will practice building and reading words with medial short vowels - first looking at words playing Name that Vowel, then as they read together a decodable text, Rasheed’s Cut]]> 2021-08-26 14:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698537037 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698554512 Today students will work to read and write words with consonant blends. They will study words with blends. They will develop their phonological awareness by studying the sounds they hear in these longer, more complex words in a game called Robot Talk, then they will have a chance to read and write words with these consonant blends and even build new words through a game, Mix and Match. 

]]> 2021-08-26 14:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698554512 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698556490 Today your students will stop and think while reading to retell their books as they read.]]> 2021-08-26 14:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698556490 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698557788 Today students will build, read, and write words with digraphs and even some words with digraphs AND consonant blends! ]]> 2021-08-26 14:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698557788 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698559141 Today students will work to put all the parts together - blends, digraphs, and short vowels to read a new text, Fran and the Big Trip. First, they will read the text, working to break apart and read through a few key words. Then, they will reread the text to highlight blends and digraphs in particular across the text. Last, they can reread and add drawings to the text to match the words.]]> 2021-08-26 14:22:11 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698559141 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698560624 Today your students will think even more while reading, thinking about what is happening, what might happen next or questions they have in their own books.]]> 2021-08-26 14:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698560624 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698562992 Today students will work to power up their Silent e Power, working to understand how the silent e works to make words with long vowels to read and write lots of words.
They will start the lesson with a new routine, a game called Mystery Word, then read words first with a medial short vowel, then with the silent e to notice the differences. Then, they will play a game called 1 or 2? This game asks kids to distinguish between words with and without the silent e. Finally, they continue their practice by looking for words with the long a and i and silent e in their own books. ]]> 2021-08-26 14:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698562992 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698565478 Today your students will read by themselves and then read with a partner, a routine that will carry forward each and every day.]]> 2021-08-26 14:25:07 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698565478 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698566927 Today students will continue their work around words with a silent e, zeroing in on words with a medial long o like hope and robe. Students will warm up today by playing Mystery Word, then move into the game, Switcharoo, changing words with short vowels and long vowels. Then, they’ll practice this even more by reading Max and the Grapes, a decodable text. ]]> 2021-08-26 14:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698566927 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698568562 Today students will study words with the medial long u sound and silent e. After warming up with a quick round of Mystery Word, they will review all vowel sounds learned so far - short vowels, long vowels, and then dig deep into u_e words. Then, they sort words into two categories based on the sound the medial u is making - words like cute and words like tube. After that, they read a poem, Rub a Dub… Bug to practice reading words with a medial long u in context. (]]> 2021-08-26 14:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698568562 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698626085 Today your students will make a reading scrapbook, jotting down ideas about themselves as a reader. You might choose to give students a single sheet of paper folded into a booklet for them to collect their thoughts. This should not take up all their reading time, but rather, they might jot down something they love when they read it, and then keep going. Students can keep this scrapbook nearby and add to it throughout the unit. 

]]> 2021-08-26 14:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698626085 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698628292 Today students will continue this study of words with a silent e. They will warm up by playing Mystery Word, then they will review all their vowel sounds - short and long. Next, they will work to write phrases with these phonics skills embedded. After they write these phrases, they will play a new game, Talk About It, that will ask them to reread the phrases they just wrote and decide Yes!, No! or Ok for the idea in the phrase. Last, they continue this work with an assortment of phrases. Kids will read the phrases alone or with a partner, then decide if something is a Yes! a No! or just an OK.

]]> 2021-08-26 14:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698628292 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698631404 Today students will practice reading words with all the phonics skills studied so far - short vowels, blends, digraphs, and long-vowel words with the silent e - to read words in isolation and in context. Readers will warm up by playing Mystery Word, then they will participate in a Switcharoo challenge They will write words at three levels: first words with the short vowel in the middle, then words with long vowels AND short vowels, and finally, words with a variety of vowel sounds, blends, and digraphs. Last, they will use all of these skills to read The Case of the Bad Smell at Home, a decodable text about Rasheed! 

]]> 2021-08-26 14:56:07 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698631404 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698633769 Today students will use everything they know about phonics, using short and long vowels, digraphs and blends, to tackle tricky words. Students will engage in a short shared reading with Lizzie to practice. 

]]> 2021-08-26 14:57:13 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698633769 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698765219 Today students will work to study, read and write words with blends and digraphs at the end. First, they will play a new game called Act it Out where they will look at words made up of parts and act it out with their face and bodies. Then, readers will be introduced to a new digraph -ck, that really only shows up at the ef\nd of words. They’ll read words with these endings on their own and then in the context of a decodable text, Bump, Bump, Bump! Last, students will play another new game, Word Equations to make words with beginnings and ends of words. ]]> 2021-08-26 15:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698765219 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698767287 Today students will check their reading as they read. They will use all they have learned about phonics and check to make sure it looks right and makes sense in the story.]]> 2021-08-26 15:57:20 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698767287 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698769475 Today students will read, write, and build words with common endings: -ed, -ing, -s/es, -er. Readers warm up with a round of Act it Out with words including the vowel i with blends and digraphs. Then, students are taught about common endings with their new tool, their Endings Belt with endings that show up a lot in books. They look at a base word and add endings - jump to jumps, jumping, and jumper. Then, they look at these words in sentences. Last, students work to add endings to a few words to create new words. ]]> 2021-08-26 15:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698769475 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698770944 Today students will continue to use all they have learned about phonics to solve words. As they do, they’ll practice looking slowly across the word, thinking about the phonics they notice at the beginning, middle and end of the word. ]]> 2021-08-26 15:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698770944 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698772468 Today students will read longer words by breaking off endings we know. First, students warm up with a round of Act it Out with short and long a words, then they study words with the endings learned in the previous session. Finally, readers try this big work in the decodable text, Max and Fran and the Basketball. Readers are asked to reread and add endings and illustrations to the decodable text by Rasheed in the postcard! (]]> 2021-08-26 16:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698772468 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698774013 Today students will start with a round of Act it out. These words are going to be verbs with a silent e. The class receives another postcard from Rasheed with a spelling tip and a request: to look at Rasheed’s pictures from the summer and add captions and labels so he can add them to his scrapbook. They start by writing words on white boards with all the phonics skills learned so far - blends, digraphs, endings, short and long vowels. Then, they write captions and labels for Rasheed’s pictures, using everything they know about word parts! ]]> 2021-08-26 16:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698774013 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698777472 Today your students will continue to pay close attention to the endings in their books and when they come across a word with an ending, break it off, read the first part of the word and then add the ending on. ]]> 2021-08-26 16:02:46 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698777472 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698778851 Today students will warm up with a round of Act it Out with short and long i medial vowel sounds. Then, students will play a new game: Word Finder Challenge, where they make and find words using all they know about phonics. Students will look at a set of letters and create words.]]> 2021-08-26 16:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698778851 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698780563 Today students will study words with the vowel teams AI and AY. They start with an activity called Spot the Difference where they look at a few words and work to notice what is different. Then, students are introduced to the concept of vowel teams, studying the word wait, the three sounds in the word, /w/-/a/-/t/, and the four letters that make those three sounds. Then, they are asked to work on their own or with a partner or even whole class to read lists - categorizing by asking themselves, “Do they say long a with AI or AY or do they say another vowel sound?” Last, they look in their books to find words that do this big work - words with the long a sound made by the vowel teams AI and AY.]]> 2021-08-26 16:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698780563 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698785569 Today students will work today to study words with the EE and EA vowel teams making the long e sound. Again, students will warm up with a round of Spot the Difference with 3 words that look very similar, but sound very different. Then, students study EE and EA words - keep and seat. And like yesterday with the AI and AY words, students work to read a list of words, verbally categorizing words into 3 categories: Words with EE, words with EA, and words that have neither. ]]> 2021-08-26 16:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698785569 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698787122 Today students will work to think about what the words mean, after decoding, to hold onto the meaning of the text. ]]> 2021-08-26 16:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698787122 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698788356 Today students will work to develop vowel flexibility, trying a few different sounds for vowels in words that don’t make the sounds we’d expect. First, students warm up with a round of Spot the Difference, and then they practice flexing their Vowel Power, trying a few different vowel sounds when the vowel team doesn’t do what we expect it to, first with words and phrases on their own, and then in the decodable text, Getting Fit with Rasheed. After reading a few pages together, students are asked to read the rest of the text on their own or with a partner, working to try different vowel sounds when vowel teams don’t do what we expect them to do. ]]> 2021-08-26 16:07:05 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698788356 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698789724 Today students will study the OA and OW vowel teams. They will warm up with a round of Spot the Difference, then they’ll study words with the OA and OW in them. Last, they will play a game called Act it Out in which they read sentences or little phrases including these vowel teams and act it out on their own, with a partner, or with the whole class! ]]> 2021-08-26 16:07:48 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698789724 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698790872 Today students will work to flex their Vowel Power to WRITE! They will warm up with a round of Spot the Difference, then they work to use their Vowel Power flex skills to make labels for pictures of words containing vowel teams. They will look at a picture and then write the word on a white board. Then, they’ll look at two different ways to spell the word and choose which word looks the most like the way it might look in a book. Some spelling versions will automatically make kids pause and say, “No way!” but others are more subtle and take time for students to internalize. ]]> 2021-08-26 16:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698790872 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698791946 Today students will study words with the vowel teams EW and UE. They will warm up with a round of Spot the Difference. Then they will look closely at a few words with the EW and UE vowel teams. Finally, after receiving a postcard from Rasheed asking them to look at his list of summer activities, they use all they know about these new vowel teams to read his list! ]]> 2021-08-26 16:09:00 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698791946 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698793659 Today students will study the vowel team OO. They will warm up with Spot the Difference, then study words with vowel teams already studied using the keywords from the phonics chart. This process of thinking about a word and checking it using a tool helps kids as they read and write on their own. Then, they study words that contain the OO vowel team like moon, but also OO like book or wood. After practicing this work in a few phrases, students will take a look at their own books, going on a word hunt for words containing this vowel team and trying it a few ways. (]]> 2021-08-26 16:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698793659 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698794945 Today students will reflect on their learning so far. Students have studied vowels, blends, digraphs, endings, and short vowel teams! Students will look at the chart, Power Up Our Phonics to reflect on which part of the chart made a difference in their learning. Did they get a lot out of studying words? Of playing games? Then, they practice putting ALL their hard work together to read a chapter book called Max and Fran Meet Up that has words with all of these phonics features included. As they read, they will pause to study words, breaking them into parts, flexing their Vowel Power, and also working to understand the text and develop ideas about the characters and the story. Students have worked hard across this unit and this day is really about reflecting on this work and trying it out in a new book!

]]> 2021-08-26 16:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698794945 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698796065 Today students will reflect on their reading as they read. They will think about what they have learned about themselves as a reader and what they want to do more of in the future.

]]> 2021-08-26 16:11:20 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698796065 spinne https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698797002 This session is left open for teachers. There is a brief teacher-facing video offering suggestions for how the culmination of this unit might go. The work of today will be to help readers to reflect on their learning and also to think about ways to carry this learning forward in a way that feels celebratory.]]> 2021-08-26 16:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/spinne/q2d05qvm7r5qbpzy/wish/1698797002