2nd Grade - English Language Arts - Beep Bop

This article explains the phonics and reading skills second graders need to master: https://www.scholastic.com/parents/school-success/school-success-guides/guide-to-2nd-grade.html
This article explains the basics of key phonics skills for early elementary school students. It also has useful definitions of many key words you may hear teachers use when talking about your child's reading: https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/children/2018/how-to-teach-your-child-phonics.html
This article, “Those Tricky ‘Oo’ Sounds,” has a list of both long and short “Oo” words and at the end of the article includes a collection of funny sentences with both types of words.
Today’s Global Greeting is in Arabic - “Sabah' el kheir'” means “Good Morning” in Arabic. To learn more about this phrase, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5J2n03t3AE

This silly song helps kids learn to recognize long versus short vowel sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Au0bE0WxBc
This online game gives your child practice identifying long and short vowel sounds in words. https://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/VowelPopper/play.html

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