Second Grade Reading

About Grade 2 Reading

Grade 2 reading (2nd grade, ages 7–8) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Phonics and Word Power (lessons 1–8), Understanding Stories (lessons 9–16), Reading for Information (lessons 17–24), Reading with Expression (lessons 25–32), and finally Reading Projects (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to identify the cause of an event — what made it happen, read and understand bar charts, tally charts, and labeled diagrams and read a poem aloud at a steady pace that follows the natural beat.

Start here: Lesson 1: Vowel Teams ai, ay, ee, ea, and oa is free to open and print. Every other lesson has a free preview of its mini lesson and vocabulary.

Paper first: each lesson is printed before you call your child. You read it once and talk it through, your child does the exercises on paper, and you correct together with the Parent checklist — about 45 minutes at the table. The next day, a 10-minute screen review of the same lesson.