Hello
and welcome to TampaRead's Grade 2 Reading files download section. Whether you're a home school parent or an elementary school teacher,
these 4 files will dramatically accelerate the speed in which your
student(s) learn the 860 new 2nd Grade reading vocabulary words.
At the end of the reading file descriptions below,
you will be able to download and access the following 2nd Grade Vocabulary Building
Reading files.
* Grade 2 Reading Vocabulary List
* Grade 2 Classroom Reading Wall
* Grade 2 Student Reading Wall and Time Chart
* 170 - Grade 2 Vocabulary Building Worksheets
File #1
2nd Grade Reading Vocabulary
List
Simply stated, these are the 860 "new" Grade 2
Vocabulary words which your students must have memorized by the end of the
second grade school year. These are the same words listed in our 2nd Grade Reading Wall
and vocabulary building worksheets. 15 years of experience has
shown without question that students who can fluently read these words will
typically score in the top 10-25% on 2nd Grade nationals tests such as the
SAT and CTBS. This "professional" list is
presented in a layout that makes it excellent for either
"one-on-one" testing (to pinpoint unknown words) - designing
additional reading activities - or used in student/teacher
conferences. To make viewing easier, words have been written using
slightly larger letter size and wider letter spacing and are placed with
three weeks of words per page.
All words have been carefully
selected as words commonly used in 2nd Grade reading materials and on
2nd Grade standardized tests such as the FCAT - SAT - and CTBS.
Words are presented from the "most common" at the beginning to
the "lesser common" toward the end, thereby providing the most
logical and effective order for instruction throughout the year.
File #2
The
Classroom Reading Wall
The first
step to use when teaching new words to a class
While
first grade students need to master over 300 words by the end of the
school year, second grade students will need to master over 800
new words to remain on grade level. To keep progress on track, our
Classroom Reading Wall teaches 6 words per day (24 per week) for the
first half of the year and 7 words per day (28 per week) for the second
half of the year. Use the Classroom Reading Wall after your
morning announcements and morning business as your first
step for efficiently introducing new reading words to a class of 7 or more
students (use the Student Reading Wall below for classes of 6 or
less). The 2nd Grade teacher begins each day's vocabulary lesson by
posting the day's new reading words at the front of the classroom (as seen in the
picture at right with TampaRead's developer, Richard Pressinger).
Our goal here is to place these words into the child's short term memory
and demonstrate the steps to use when decoding (sounding-out) the
words. How do we do that? Just follow the 8 easy steps
listed at the top of each Classroom Reading Wall list.
8
Steps to Accelerated Memorization
of the New Reading Words
1) Vowel
Sound Practice -
Discuss the sound made by the "colored" vowel in each word.
Using the picture at left as an example, the teacher would point to the
red "a" in each word and say "ah" (short a
sound). The teacher then points to the red "a" in each
word again and the class says the sound.
2) Stop at the Vowel Sound - The
next step is to show students how to sound out the word "up-to" the
colored vowel sound - "ah" - "sa" - "ha" -
"ba" - "ha." (this technique is immensely effective
for helping students decode words !!).
3) Read Words to the Class - Once
you're sure the class can do the "Stop at the Vowel Sound
technique" - then read the words to the class slowly - stressing
each individual sound.
4) Teacher/Student "Call-Out"
- In this step the teacher says the
sound up to the colored vowel and the students (as a group) call out the
entire word. Teacher says "ah" - Students say "ask" -
Teacher says "sa" - Students say "sad" - etc.
5) Copy
Cat Exercise - This is
guaranteed to wake up your class and bring smiles from even the
grumpiest students. In this step the students copy every single
word - phrase - syllable - sound - noise - etc. said by the
teacher. (I personally begin by saying - "Copy Cat"
(pause) - "Hello" - and the class knows immediately to say
"Hello." I then might say the following phrases of which
they repeat exactly - "short a says ah" (students
repeat) -
"sa says sah" (students repeat) - "ha says hah"
(students repeat) - "Hey" (students repeat) - "Did you
hear me?" (students repeat) - "wake up" (students
repeat) - "I like pizza" (students repeat smiling...) -
"I said" (students repeat) - "short a says ahhhhhhhh."
(students repeat) - "OK" (students repeat) - "stop at the
vowel sound" (students repeat) - "is the key" (students
repeat) - "short a ah" (students repeat) - "sa sah"
(students repeat) - "ha hah" (students repeat) - "ba
bah" (students repeat) - "ha hah" (students repeat) -
Then I point to the first word on the Reading Wall and say -
"a..s..k (students repeat) - "spells ask" (students repeat) -
"s..a..d" (students repeat) - "spells sad" (students
repeat) - etc. As you can see, this is not only a fun exercise for
everyone, but is extremely effective for getting important information
into the student's short term memory.
6)
Boo-Boo-Catcher - Another fun
activity. Students begin by putting both hands on their
desk. The teacher then says the words in order from top to bottom
- however, the teacher makes an intentional mistake when saying one or
two of the words. When the students hear the mistake they raise
their hand immediately. Call on one of the students and they must
say the correct word. By challenging the students to "look
for the error" - every child is giving maximum concentration to the
activity. To increase concentration further, I begin by pointing
to the word, but wait 5-10 seconds before saying the word. This
gives students time to decode and say the word in their minds.
7) Timed
Reading - Ask the class who
thinks they can say the list of words in under 8 seconds. Call on
a student and get out your stop watch (or use the second hand on the
classroom clock). Say - "On your mark - get set -
go!!." Write the child's name on the board and put their time
next to their name. Do this with 4-5 students for a little
exciting mild competition.
8) Review
the Word of the Day - The last
word on each list contains what we call the "Word of the Day"
- These words are notorious for short circuiting student comprehension while
reading paragraphs because they are typically common words that have a
high error rate for students. The reason they are so difficult to learn
is because they do not follow basic phonics or reading rule
guidelines. For example, in a test I recently gave to approximately 100
Grade 1 students at the end of the school year, the following words were
read incorrectly by more than half the students!!! - don't - doesn't -
where - were - want - won't - does. As you can see, these are very
common words that are typically used in average Grade 1 reading books and test
questions. Knowing this certainly helps explain why beginning
readers typically have trouble comprehending what
they have read. It is not because they can't remember what was
read, but rather, a poor reading vocabulary prevented them from fluently
reading the passage which is, of course, essential for deriving meaning
from the passage. In order to enable memorization of the
"Word of the Day," it must receive at least 5-10 times more exposure
and practice than the other list words.
This completes the initial
introduction of words into the child's short term memory and usually requires about
15-20 minutes to complete. The next step is to further solidify the
words into memory by engaging the child with a challenging
vocabulary building worksheet that reviews these same words. It is
important to do this immediately following the above word introduction
period so the words are not "lost" from the child's short term
memory.
File #3
Vocabulary
Building Worksheets
Solidifying
the Word Memorization Process
After your student(s)
have completed the Classroom Reading Wall (or for our Home School
Parents - once students have practiced the Student Reading Wall below),
it is important to now practice the words further before they
"drop-out" from the child's short term memory. This is accomplished with our series of "intelligent" vocabulary building
worksheets which parallel the identical words used in
each Classroom and Student Reading Wall Lesson. They
incorporate special strategies known as "recognition" and
"delayed" memory to even further enhance memorization. The password you'll receive
to our second grade reading materials will provide access to all
144 worksheets listed in the 2nd Grade Worksheet Index. Each Lesson corresponds to one
week of reading vocabulary words. There are 4 worksheets per Lesson,
and to remain on schedule, your student(s) should be completing one
worksheet per day. The picture at left shows the actual
worksheet for Lesson 3A. In the first box (Skill 1), the teacher
uses the "Definition Clue" strategy to further enhance
memorization. For example, here the teacher could say -
"After you get dirty you do this to get clean" - the students
look through the words and choose - "bath." For students
who still have a hard time you would make it easier by saying -
"Look through the words and find - bath." The
students then begin with the second box (Skill 2) and complete the
remaining worksheet on their own (giving the teacher a 10-15 minute well
deserved break). In the Skill 2 Box, called "Letter
Soup," the student looks at the scrambled letters and matches it
with the correct word from above. For example, number 1 is "tha"
- the correct word which they are to write in the number 1 space is -
"hat." The final Skill 3 activity is Sentence Writing Practice.
This makes sure the student truly knows the word since they must put it
into a sentence. Once
you become a TampaRead's Member, the index below shows the first 4 (of
36) worksheet lessons you will be able to access in seconds. Click
any green button in "LESSON 4" (last row) to pull up sample
worksheets.
File #4
The
Student Reading Wall
The
larger Classroom Reading Wall explained above along with the Vocabulary Building Worksheets
will do a tremendous job in keeping the majority of your students on track
for progressing through the Grade 2 vocabulary
words. However, there will always be some students who are either
not able to maintain the pace or 7 words per day or who were already reading below grade level
when they began 2nd grade. To address these students - we developed the "Student Reading
Wall" as a safety-net to make sure all students keep up with
adequate reading progress. This
is a truly amazing tool for quickly
improving a child's reading ability. It combines a number of
memorizing strategies which are especially helpful for children who have
shown difficulty in learning to read in the past. The four sheets
below provide an example of just one of the 36 Lessons in the 2nd Grade Reading Wall (there are 144 sheets in all which teach the 860 new 2nd
Grade reading words). By using the techniques listed for 15-20
minutes daily, it is typical for average children to progress 1 year in reading
ability after only 2-3 months (children with moderate learning problems
require 4-5 months). For a video demonstration of how to use
the Student Reading Wall - click the picture above. You must have
the RealVideo Player installed on your computer to view the 2 minute
clip. If you do not have RealVideo installed then take 10 minutes
to download the latest RealVideo player. After clicking the link
below - scroll to the bottom of their page to locate the icon identical
to the one below.
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How
to Use the Student Reading Wall
Using
the 4 STEPS below for 15-20 minutes daily will
greatly accelerate the learning to read process for any child.
1.
SAY
VOWEL SOUND
Begin by having the child say the sound made only by the
color-coded vowel sound in each word. For example, in
Lesson 9A above, the child would say the sound of "short
a" (ah) five times while you point to the red "a"
in each word - add - hand
- glad - glass
- shall.
2.
STOP
AT THE VOWEL SOUND
The child then says the sounds made by the letters only up to
the color coded vowel sound - (typically the beginning consonant
and vowel sound blended together. Again using Lesson 9A,
the child would say - ah - ha
- gla - gla
- sha. This teaches proper
blending skills and gives the child an effective and simple
technique which can be used when decoding all new
words. If the child makes even one error, tell them the
correct answer and have them start again from the top.
When all "STOP AT THE VOWEL SOUNDS" are said without
errors - proceed to Step 3.
3.
READ
EACH WORD SLOWLY
Now the child has the skills needed to begin reading the entire
word. Tell the child that we are going to do the same
"Stop at the Vowel Sound" technique as before, but
this time you want them to add the sounds after the
color-coded vowel sound as well - in other words - to read the
entire word. If the child makes a mistake, be sure
to stop them immediately and guide them to look carefully at the
sounds and try again. When the child says the word
correctly (or if you tell them the word after several incorrect
attempts), then go back up to the top of the list and start
saying the words all over again. When the child can say all
words without making one mistake, then it's time to begin every
child's favorite part.
4.
TIMED
READING
Included with the Reading Wall is a special chart for timing how
long it takes the student to say the words. Get out the
stop watch (or timer on your wrist watch) and get ready to have
some fun. Say - "On
your mark - Get set - GO!! - and time the child on
how long it takes to say all words on the list. On
their first attempt - don't worry if the child gets
"stuck" or says a word incorrectly under the
"excitement" of being timed. If a child can't
remember a word, give them about 5 seconds to figure it out on
their own before you tell them the answer. If the child
says an incorrect word, go ahead and tell them the answer while
emphasizing the sound they missed.
After the first attempt, write
down the child's score and tell them - "Great job, now
let's see if you can say them again and beat your score of ___
seconds." The only thing you need to
remember about the 2nd attempt is that if the child makes even
one mistake this time in saying the words - stop the watch -
explain the correct word (and sounds) - and start back over
again from the top. When the list is eventually said
without an error (usually after 2-3 more attempts) - write down
the child's timed score on the Timed Score Chart. The child then
sees he/she beat their previous time and becomes extremely
thrilled about the improvement and will be glad to try it again
and again in order to "beat" the list. We say a
child can "BEAT" the list when their score reaches 10
seconds for the 1st Grade lists and 8 seconds for the shorter
2nd Grade lists. After "beating" a list
the child can then proceed to the next Lesson.
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Hello
and welcome to TampaRead's Grade 2 Reading files download section. Whether you're a home school parent or an elementary school teacher,
these 4 files will dramatically accelerate the speed in which your
student(s) learn the 860 new 2nd Grade reading vocabulary words.
At the end of the reading file descriptions below,
you will be able to download and access the following 2nd Grade Vocabulary Building
Reading files.
While
first grade students need to master over 300 words by the end of the
school year, second grade students will need to master over 800
new words to remain on grade level. To keep progress on track, our
Classroom Reading Wall teaches 6 words per day (24 per week) for the
first half of the year and 7 words per day (28 per week) for the second
half of the year. Use the Classroom Reading Wall after your
morning announcements and morning business as your first
step for efficiently introducing new reading words to a class of 7 or more
students (use the Student Reading Wall below for classes of 6 or
less). The 2nd Grade teacher begins each day's vocabulary lesson by
posting the day's new reading words at the front of the classroom (as seen in the
picture at right with TampaRead's developer, Richard Pressinger).
Our goal here is to place these words into the child's short term memory
and demonstrate the steps to use when decoding (sounding-out) the
words. How do we do that? Just follow the 8 easy steps
listed at the top of each Classroom Reading Wall list. 
1) Vowel
Sound Practice -
Discuss the sound made by the "colored" vowel in each word.
Using the picture at left as an example, the teacher would point to the
red "a" in each word and say "ah" (short a
sound). The teacher then points to the red "a" in each
word again and the class says the sound.
After your student(s)
have completed the Classroom Reading Wall (or for our Home School
Parents - once students have practiced the Student Reading Wall below),
it is important to now practice the words further before they
"drop-out" from the child's short term memory. This is accomplished with our series of "intelligent" vocabulary building
worksheets which parallel the identical words used in
each Classroom and Student Reading Wall Lesson. They
incorporate special strategies known as "recognition" and
"delayed" memory to even further enhance memorization. The password you'll receive
to our second grade reading materials will provide access to all
144 worksheets listed in the 2nd Grade Worksheet Index. Each Lesson corresponds to one
week of reading vocabulary words. There are 4 worksheets per Lesson,
and to remain on schedule, your student(s) should be completing one
worksheet per day. The picture at left shows the actual
worksheet for Lesson 3A. In the first box (Skill 1), the teacher
uses the "Definition Clue" strategy to further enhance
memorization. For example, here the teacher could say -
"After you get dirty you do this to get clean" - the students
look through the words and choose - "bath." For students
who still have a hard time you would make it easier by saying -
"Look through the words and find - bath." The
students then begin with the second box (Skill 2) and complete the
remaining worksheet on their own (giving the teacher a 10-15 minute well
deserved break). In the Skill 2 Box, called "Letter
Soup," the student looks at the scrambled letters and matches it
with the correct word from above. For example, number 1 is "tha"
- the correct word which they are to write in the number 1 space is -
"hat." The final Skill 3 activity is Sentence Writing Practice.
This makes sure the student truly knows the word since they must put it
into a sentence. Once
you become a TampaRead's Member, the index below shows the first 4 (of
36) worksheet lessons you will be able to access in seconds. Click
any green button in "LESSON 4" (last row) to pull up sample
worksheets.
