The third article in my series, Preparing Your Child For School, deals with children I am very familiar with. Kids going to 2nd grade. I'm sure you experienced quite a year as you watched your child tackle reading, writing and arithmetic! Now they are going to take those skills and really put them to work.
Language Arts/Reading
- Reads regularly is independent level text effortlessly and with expression.
- Demonstrates appropriate use of capitalization, punctuation and sentence structure.
- Students will recognize high frequency words and be able to spell them. Dolce list
Math
- Names ordinal position first through tenth.
- Exhibits fluency with basic addition and subtraction facts to 15.
- Tell time to the hour and half hour.
- Identify the value of coins.
- Reads and writes numbers 1-100.
- Counts objects by ones, twos, fives and tens.
I tell my parent's in the letter I send out every May, not only do you need to have your child read to you often....ask them about what they read! Comprehension is a key element in your child's reading success!
Originally published 7/ 18/08
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Love this series of postings, Beth. Great for all parents!