Grade 2 Read-Aloud

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This preface to the Transition Supplemental Guide provides information

about the guide’s purpose and target audience, and describes how it can

be used flexibly in various classroom settings.

Please note: The Supplemental Guides for the first three domains in

Grade 2 contain modified read-alouds and significantly restructured

lessons with regard to pacing and activities. These early Supplemental

Guides provided step-by-step, scaffolded instruction with the intention

that students receiving instruction from teachers using the Supplemental

Guide for the first part of the year would be ready to participate in regular

Listening & Learning lessons, and that teachers who have used the

Supplemental Guide for the first part of the year would be equipped with

the instructional strategies to scaffold the lessons when necessary. This

shift from the full Supplemental Guide to the Transition Supplemental

Guide affords teachers more autonomy and greater responsibility to

adjust their execution of the lessons according to the needs of their

classes and individual students.

Transition Supplemental Guides for the remaining domains will still contain

Vocabulary Charts and Supplemental Guide activities such as Multiple

Meaning Word Activities, Syntactic Awareness Activities, and Vocabulary

Instructional Activities. However, the Transition Supplemental Guides do

not have rewritten read-alouds and do not adjust the pacing of instruction;

the pacing and read-aloud text included in each Transition Supplemental

Guide is identical to the pacing and read-aloud text in the corresponding

Tell It Again! Read-Aloud Anthology. We have, however, augmented the

introductions and extensions of each lesson in the Transition Supplemental

Guides so teachers have additional resources for students who need

greater English language support. As a result, there are often more activities

suggested than can be completed in the allotted time for the introduction

or extension activities. Teachers will need to make informed and conscious

decisions in light of their particular students’ needs when choosing which

activities to complete and which to omit. We strongly recommend that

teachers preview the Domain Assessment prior to teaching this domain;

this will provide an additional way to inform their activity choices.

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