Second Grade, Teacher's Guide

·       The Teacher’s Guide streamlines the instructional routines that are the cornerstone of Puzzle Piece Phonics, and outlines simple directions for implementing the daily lessons. The practice routines ground the instruction in research and quickly become second nature to teachers and students.

·       Puzzle Piece Phonics spans approximately thirty-five weeks of instruction and is organized around the essential phonics concepts for each grade:

o   Second Grade—Introduction to Word Study, Correctly Spelling Consonant Patterns, Correctly Spelling Long Vowels, Correctly Spelling Schwa and R-Controlled Vowels, Correctly Spelling Irregular Vowels, Parts of Speech, Prefixes and Suffixes, and Other Word Types

·       Each concept opens in the Teacher’s Guide with a Preparing for Your Week section to plan weekly instruction. Tips for Engagement and Differentiation help teachers spin their lesson plans to meet the diverse needs of their students, and daily step-by-step instructions suggest ways to implement each routine.

·       This dynamic step-by-step process is repeated each week for each new set of letter-sounds. The Teacher’s Guide also includes connections to students’ Fluency Notebook and Learner’s Notebook practice, a guide for pacing the scope and sequence of the program, a week-by-week list of the sight words introduced, and a map that outlines the components of each puzzle piece and suggests how they should be displayed in the classroom.

·       Research confirms that mastery of phonics concepts is critical to building the letter-sound knowledge students need to succeed as readers and writers. Put Puzzle Piece Phonics to work in your classrooms and discover how easy it is to make word study effective and fun.