Fable Fun in the Sun/Phonics, Reading and Writing Class -Level 2

Special Note: 
Go to https://www.k5learning.com/reading-comprehension-worksheets/second-grade-2/stories-kids-fables
Print the stories listed for the 12 weeks.  You can print these weekly or print them all at the same time and put them in a folder for your student to bring to each class.

This ongoing summer reading class is intended for learners who currently are reading on a 2nd grade reading level and based on Levelled Readers, the learner should be reading materials J through M.  Although ages are somewhat flexible, your learner will be most successful if they are currently working on a second grade reading level. The class is offered June through August and will focus on a different fable or short story each week.  The first class of each week will focus on phonics, reading and grammar skills. The second class of the week will focus on writing exercises designed teach the learners to use the writing process to create meaningful responses to the passage that was read that week. Parents are asked to print the reading selection and the comprehension questions for each week from the source cited in required materials before the first class of the week.  Learners should always come to class with pencil, colored pencils or crayons, wipe-off board and marker and printed selection for the week. You can join the class on any given week, but both days of the week would be necessary for your learner to get the full impact of the class.
In the 12 weeks included in June, July and August the following fables or short stories will be read:

Week of June 6/Ten Little Cookies
     Phonics:  oo in cookies, oo in room
     Grammar: numbers words 1- 10, rhyming words
     Reading skills: sequencing, text based evidence
     Writing skills: writing process, using sequence, rhyming word patterns
Week of June 13/Hide and Seek
      Phonics: vowel diagraphs that spell long e/ee, ea, ie, ey
                     other spellings for long e/e_e, -y
     Grammar: quotation marks, synonyms for "said" in dialogue
     Reading skills: recalling sequence of events, text based evidence
     Writing skills: writing process, sharing personal connections related to story
Week of June 20/Little By Little
      Phonics: different sounds of ough in bought, through, rough and dough
     Grammar: use of semicolon
     Reading skills: finding problem and resolve in a reading passage
     Writing skills: writing process, relate personal experience "little by little" principal to own experience
Week of June 27/Moving On
      Phonics: ss, mm, ll, nn
     Grammar: use of hyphen in words
     Reading skills: cause and effect relationships in literature, text based evidence
     Writing skills: writing process, connection with history, 3rd person vs 1st person narratives
Week of July 4/Turnip Teamwork
      Phonics:  r-influenced vowels/ir, ur, ar, er, or
     Grammar: Quotation marks
     Reading skills: determining plot: rising action, climax, resolution
     Writing skills: writing process, developing plot in story
Week of July 11/Golly-Grue's New Hat
      Phonics:  identifying contractions/meaning
     Grammar: using commas 
     Reading skills: recalling sequence of events, finding humor in literature
     Writing skills: writing process, retelling a humorous event
Week of July 18/No Party for Skedaddle
      Phonics: silent letters/b in climb, w in write, k in knot
     Grammar: paragraphing for dialogue
     Reading skills: naming characters, identifying cause and effect/consequences
     Writing skills: writing process, write with a moral in mind/"If you don't work, you won't eat"
Week of July 24/Mercury and the Woodsman (an Aesop's Fable)
      Phonics: compound words
     Grammar: review capitalization rules
     Reading skills: onomatopoeia/whack, reading with expression using voice inflection
     Writing skills: writing process, weaving good vs bad character quality into story
Week of August 1/There's a Skunk in the Library
      Phonics: finding contractions in literature/determine meanings
     Grammar: review capitalization rules for titles
     Reading skills: determining character qualities and finding supporting evidence, text based evidence
     Writing skills: writing process, seeing connections in literature (Boy Who Cries Wolf) and creating story with same theme
Week of August 8/One Guest Too Many
      Phonics:  irregular comparatives/good, better, best, bad, worse, worst
     Grammar: irregular past tense/ran, saw, stuck, were, came, said, broke, had
     Reading skills: comparing literature/popular nursery rhymes...Hey, Diddle Diddle
     Writing skills: writing process, use theme...You can't judge a book by it's cover.
Week of August 15/The Fox and the Grapes
      Phonics:  open syllables = long vowel/Rupert, locate, table, etc
     Grammar: using adjectives to clearly convey meaning
     Reading skills: predicting outcomes
     Writing skills: writing process, write a new outcome to the story
Week of August 22/Gimbletoes and the Milk Pail
      Phonics:  vowel digraphs ue, ai, ea, ee, oe
     Grammar: using commas in a series long, white hair/ nice, new boots
     Reading skills: using intonation in reading
     Writing skills: writing process, Tell about a time when you counted your chickens before they hatched.