1. Looking Closely at Literacy
Welcome to our Grade Two
Breakfast with the Principals
October 2, 2013

2. Which area of the curriculum do
you feel most proficient in
supporting your child? Turn and Talk
A. Reading
B. Writing
C. Math
D. Social Studies
E. Science

3. Reading Standards
Literature and Informational Text
• Key Ideas and Details
• Craft and Structure
• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
• Range of Reading and Level of Text
Complexity
• Responding to Literature

6. Examples of tasks that tap into
each reading standard
• Students read in order to compare and contrast two
versions of the same folktales/fairytales from diverse
cultures.
• Students explain how the illustrations in text help to
convey meaning and gain a deeper understanding of a
character or concept.
• Students describe how the character responds to major
events.
• Students determine the meaning of words and phrases in
non-fiction text.

10. Reading Standard
Foundational Skills
• Print Concepts
• Phonological Awareness
• Phonics and Word Recognition
• Fluency

13. Writing Standards
• Text Types and Purposes
• Production and Distribution of Writing
• Research to Build and Present Knowledge

17. Reading and Writing Units of
Study that Support this Work
• Small Moments
• Authors as Mentors
• Realistic Fiction
• Information Books
• Writing about Reading
• Poetry
• Adaption of Folk/Fairy
Tales
• Info Writing about
Science
• Taking Charge of Reading
• Tackling Trouble
• Characters
• Reading Non Fiction
• NF Reading Clubs
• Reading, Role Playing
• Reading about Science

18. Listening and Speaking
• Comprehension and Collaboration
• Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

19. Language Standards
• Conventions of Standard English
• Knowledge of Language
• Vocabulary-Acquisition and Use

20. Structures that Support the Reading,
Writing, Listening and Speaking
Standards
• Read Aloud
• Shared Reading
• Guided Reading
• Partnerships
• Independent Reading
• Reading Logs
• Word Study-WTW and
Fundations
• Shared Writing
• Independent Writing
• Word Study
• Partnerships
• Conferring

22. Close Reading
• is an interaction between a reader and a text.
• often involves rereading of short portions of a text with intensity.
• helps children observe, interact, and find their own questions and
interpretations.
• is a way to study the things that they we love more carefully and
appreciate their subtleties more fully.
• is an opportunity to go back to the text for real purpose.
• is making careful observations of something and then developing
interpretations from those observations.

23. REFLECTIONS…
• What have you learned today that can help you support your child at
home?