MRS.YOUNG'S GRADE 2

HOMEWORK

1. Please review the letters and sounds daily!

2. Please read a story with your child each night!

3.  Raz Kids is up and running, be sure to log on and read with your child!!

4. Review the sight words daily!!

FLASHCARDS

Working With Words - Weekly words that the children need to learn to identify and spell.  The weekly words are from the Jolly Grammar program..  Please check in your child's agenda for the weekly words.

JOLLY PHONICS

The aim of this program is to teach children to read and write through an early systematic phonics program.  This means that the children are taught the main 42 sounds of English, not just the alphabet sounds. With this knowledge they are taken through stages of blending sounds to form words and then on to reading.  At the same time the children are taught to write by identifying the sounds in words and relating the letters to those sounds.

The teaching has been divided into the following 5 basic skills:
1. Learning the letter sounds
2. Learning the letter formation
3. Blending - for reading
4. Identifying the Sounds in Words -  for writing
5. Tricky Words - irregular words

Order of Letter Sound Groups
The letters are in groups of six.  They have been carefully selected to help the learning.  The first six letters can be used to make simple words, e.g. "pin" and "sat", so that the letters can quickly be turned into words.  The letters that get easily confused are not too close together, such as "b" and "d".

Letter Groups:
1. s,a,t,i,p,n
2. c,k,e,h,r,m,d
3. g,o,u,l,f,b
4. ai,j,oa,ie,ee,or
5. z,w,ng,v,little oo, long oo
6. y,x,ch,sh,voiced th, unvoiced th
7. qu, ou, oi, ue, er, ar

It is vital that the students know the letter sounds.  They need to be fluent at saying the sound immediately upon seeing the letter.