Grade 2 Reading Centers (90 min)
Center 1 - Guided Reading
Objectives:
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Building fluency and skills via lexile leveled reading groups
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Spiral of RL & RI standards through novels and articles
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Collect data and do mini lessons as needed
Resources:
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Leveled literature
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Novels
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Reading A-Z (Raz-Kids)
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Leveled informational text
Note: Early fluent and fluent readers come to this center having pre-read the text. Only groups with early emergent or emergent readers should read together with the teacher.









Center 2 - Blended Learning
Objectives:
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Building reading and phonics skills through adaptive software
Materials:
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Any adaptive software program such as Lexia Core 5 or iReady
Note: If your district does not make adaptive software available there are other free options for high leverage reading activities.
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Center 3 - Independent Reading
Objectives:
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Pre-reading guided reading books
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Response to literature
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Targeted standards based activities
Materials:
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Guided reading book or article
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Teacher created/prepared
Center 4 - Reading Intervention or Extension
Objectives:
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Building phonemic awareness, fluency and reading skills via leveled reading groups for students needing extra practice.
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Extension activities for advanced students.
Materials:
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Scripted phonics program such as Reading Mastery or Corrective Reading
Note: If your school does not provide a paraprofessional for centers, this reading intervention could be done at a different time of the day, but is necessary for all students below grade level.
Whole Class Reading Instruction (90 min)
Direct Instruction of Standards
Objectives:
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Students will gain mastery of all Common Core standards through direct instruction and high leverage practice activities
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Students will access grade level content such as core literature or social studies text
Materials:
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Instructional presentations
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Additional curriculum resources by standard suggested
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Ready Common Core
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Standards Plus
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Grade level literature texts
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Grade level informational texts



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