Reading to Learn

It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that my second grade students enjoy constant challenge.


Challenge can certainly be tiring.  Challenge makes a student push in order to rise above perceived boundaries and limitations.  Accepting a challenge is definitely akin to choosing Robert Frost's preferred road.  The road not taken is a rather mysterious one.  In choosing to take it, we are welcoming a challenge.


I witness my students take that challenging route every single day.  It's so exciting to watch the problem solving and creative collaboration in a classroom full of thinkers who are reading to learn.


We begin our morning with binder work.  We greatly enjoy curating our work in this "grown up" format.

Sometimes, we become actors and actresses in impromptu Readers Theater performances (quickly assembled props included)

We practice auditory comprehension and inference skills when we are visited by Mystery Readers.

We collaborate with our reading teams.  Assignment deadlines can be rather brutal!  We work feverishly (and happily) in order to comprehend and problem solve.

We are huge fans of the fantastic resources in our school's library.  

During Genius Hour, we collaborate and utilize many different resources to better understand the problems we are trying to resolve.  

In short, it is a fine time to be a second grader.  It is even more exciting to witness firsthand the challenges that these students take on each new day.