Pasadena Plus Instructional Focus

Grade 2 Reading Skills

First Nine Weeks

Second Nine Weeks

Third Nine Weeks

• Inferential Context Clues

• My Pet (Edmark)

• Practice Book: (2-2) p. 15-16
• Reading Target Tests: TAAS Test Prep p. 22-23, 24-25
• Context Clues (PowerPoint)
• Word Cube
• Clues to Comprehension

• Compare and Contrast activity using fairy tales

• Compare/Contrast Worksheet (pdf)
• Comparison Chart
• Beyond Compare

• Practice Book: (2-2) p. 26
• Reading Target Tests: District Prepared Target Test
• Different Families (Word Doc)
• Getting to Know (PowerPoint template that needs editing by teacher)

• Word Investigation 

• Practice Book: (2-2) p. 59
• Prefixes tested in 4th nine weeks with suffixes

• Predicting Outcomes
• Making Predictions

• Practice Book: (2-2) p. 60
• Reading Target Tests: District Prepared Target Test
• Draw That Conclusion (PowerPoint)
• Predicting Outcomes Lesson

• Story Pyramid
• Three Sentence Summary
• Fact Filled Birthdays 

• Practice Book: (2-2) p. 66-68
• Reading Target Tests: TAAS Test Prep p. 36-37

Fourth Nine Weeks

Suffixes ful, ly, ness