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How to Teach Reading Lesson Plans: Suggested Teaching Strategies for 2nd Grade Reading Skills

Uses Language to Connect with Print: Uses language to establish a connection and interact with print.

Develops Listening Skills: How to teach 2nd grade reading using listening skills.

Derives Meaning from Text: How to teach 1st grade reading using deriving meaning from text and extending meaning beyond the print.

Oral ReadingReads orally with fluency based on rate, intonation, phrasing, and naturalness.

Phonics: Phonics refers to a method for teaching speakers of English to read and write that language. Phonics involves teaching how to connect the sounds of spoken English with letters or groups of letters (e.g., that the sound /k/ can be represented by c, k, ck or ch spellings) and teaching them to blend the sounds of letters together to produce approximate pronunciations of unknown words.

Print Awareness: Print awareness is a child's earliest understanding that written language carries meaning. The foundation of all other literacy learning builds upon this knowledge.