Second Grade Phonics With Ms. Katelynn Ongoing

Welcome to Second Grade Phonics with Ms. Katelynn! In this three times a week class learners will build upon their first grade phonics knowledge and grow as readers. Each week we will work on phonemic awareness or the ability to think about and work with individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words by blending sounds into words and segmenting words into sounds. We will do visual and auditory drills to ensure that each learner can match graphemes (a letter or group of letters used to represent a sound) with their phonemes and vice versa. Learners will practice reading words in isolation as well as in sentences and short stories, practice writing and spelling words that match our phonics skill for the day, and learn irregular words, also known as high frequency words, each week through orthographic mapping. This means that learners will be pointed to the irregular part(s) of the word and discuss the unexpected grapheme-phoneme correspondences. This will ensure mastery of irregular words. A typical week will look as follows:
Day one:
Phonemic awareness 
Visual and auditory drill
Blend drill 
New Concept and Word Work
Irregular Words
Connected Text
Day two:
Phonemic awareness 
Visual and auditory drill
Blend drill 
New Concept and Word Work
Irregular Words
Connected Text
Day Three:
Review of the week’s concepts
Additional word work
Check in assessment
Week One: Week of August 27th: Short vowels
Week Two: Week of September 3rd  : FLSZ Rule and all,oll,ull
Week Three: Week of September 10th: Digraphs ck, sh, th, ch, wh, ng, nk
Week Four: Week of September 17th : Silent E
Week Five: Week of October 1st: ending -es, -ed, and -ing
Week Six: Week of October 8th: Closed and open syllables closed/closed
Week Seven: Week of October 15th : closed/closed and open/closed
Week Eight: Week of October 22nd : tch, dge, and long VCC (-ild, -old, -ind, -olt, -ost)

Week Nine: Week of October 29th: ending pattern review, ar/or/ore
Week Ten: Week of November 5th: Spelling /er/ (er,ir,ur,w+or), R-controlled review
Week Eleven: Week of November 12th: ai, ay and ee,ea,ey
Week Twelve: Week of November 19th: oa,ow,oe and ie/igh
Week Thirteen: Week of November 26th: Vowel Teams review 1 and any other needed review
Week Fourteen: Week of December 3rd: oo,u /oo/ and oo /ū/
Week Fifteen: Week of December 10th:ew,ui,ue and Vowel Teams review 2
Week Sixteen: Week of December 17th: au, aw, augh and ea

*Winter Break from December 24th- January 5th*

*Topics will continue to be added*