Common Core Top Pick for Reading - Foundational Skills

• Phonological Awareness
• Phonics and Word Recognition

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Provide explicit, systematic phonics instruction and practice in just 15 to 20 minutes a day Daily Phonics, Grade 2 helps students in second grade--including students learning English--develop the phonics skills necessary to become proficient, on-grade-level readers.

The 32 weekly units in grade 2 cover:

Alphabet Review

Initial and Final Consonants: b, f, m, s, k, p

Initial and Final Consonants: d, n, r, g, t, l

Short Vowel Sounds: a, i

Short Vowel Sounds: e, o, u

CVC Words

Long Vowel Sounds

CVCe Pattern

Syllabication

Long Vowel Sounds of y

Initial Consonant Blends: st, sk, sw, sp

Initial Consonant Blends: fl, gl, sl, pl, cr, fr, tr, gr

Final Consonant Blends: lt, st, nt, mp, nd, ft, ld, nk

Initial and Final Consonant Digraphs: sh, ch, wh, th

Consonant Digraphs: ph, gh, ck, ng

R-Controlled Vowels: ar, or, ur, er, ir

The Sounds of c, g

Long a Vowel Digraphs: ai, ay

Long e Vowel Digraphs: ee, ea

Long i Spellings: ie, igh

Long o Vowel Digraphs: oa, oe, ow

Long u Vowel Digraphs: ue, ew

Long Vowel Digraphs Review: ai, ay, ee, ea, ie, igh, oa, ow, ew, ue

Diphthongs: ou, ow

Diphthongs: oi, oy

The Sounds of oo

Silent Letters: k, w, l, b

Plural Forms: s, es, ies

Irregular Plurals

Verb Endings: Inflectional: -ing, -ed

Prefixes: dis-, re-, un-

Suffixes: -ful, -less, -ly