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Mrs. Coelho’s Second Grade

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icoelho@cpsed.net

Mrs. Isabel Coelho

B.S. Rhode Island College, Elementary Education &

Early Childhood Education

B.A. Rhode Island College, Spanish

M.ED in Reading Rhode Island College

No Child Left Behind: Highly Qualified

Welcome to Second Grade! My name is Isabel Coelho and I will be your child’s teacher this year. This will be a very busy and exciting year for them. This year there are two second grades and we are looking forward to working with each other. Here are a few things we’ll be working on throughout the school year.

Reading

In second grade we read a variety of ways from our poetry, stories from our reading series, guided reading groups, biographies, fiction and non fiction books.

Strategies to help your child with reading comprehension:

*ask questions *visualize

*synthesize * predict and infer

*determine important information

*Make connections to self, other texts and the world

Strategies to help your child read:

*use picture * try again

*look for smaller words or chunks

*skip the word and read to the end, then go back

*reread

Ask your child: “Does it look right?” , “Does it sound right?”

And “Does it make sense?”

Writing

In second grade the children write for many purposes. Daily journals are used and it becomes a dialogue journal between the teacher and the student. Other forms of writing that the students will be doing this year are: literature response journals, poetry, words of wisdom prompts, expository writing as well as narratives. Furthermore, each student has a writing folder to keep a collection of their writing pieces. Also, in second grade it is important that the students know the writing process. They will become responsible for their writing and where they are in their own writing process.

Writing Process

Brainstorm

First Draft

Revising

Editing

Final Draft

Publishing

Science