EPS Phonics PLUS Student Edition B (Grade 2)

Level B

EPS Phonics PLUS B reviews and expands upon concepts covered in Level A with extensive, interactive exercises and activities. Students apply skills to a variety of reading passages, including poems, plays, literature, and multiple selections that feature the recurring characters of Mike and Cate—second grade students.

Phonological Awareness

• Identifying initial, final, and medial consonants and vowels
• Segmenting and blending phonemes
• Recognizing and producing rhyme
• Syllables
• Identifying and blending onset and rime

Fluency

• Automaticity practice
• Repeated readings
• Read-alouds.Choral reading
• Partner reading and Reader’s Theater

Phonics

• Sound-to-symbol correspondence
• Blending onset/rime and phonemes
• Consonants (initial and final)
• Digraphs and blends (initial and final)
• Short and long vowels
• Vowel digraphs and diphthongs
• r-controlled vowels; y as a vowel; broad a
• Schwa
• Silent letters
• Word families
• CVC, CVVC, and CVCe words
• CV words
• Decoding multisyllabic words
• Spelling

Vocabulary and Word Analysis

• Sound-to-symbol correspondence
• Using picture and context clues
• High frequency words
• Homophones
• Contractions and compound words
• Open and closed syllables
• Multisyllabic words
• Stress/accent

Concepts of Print

• Concept of paragraph

Writing

• Words and sentences
• Stories and poems

Comprehension

• Context clues
• Think-alouds and visualization
• Sequencing and predicting
• Following directions
• Literal recall and retelling
• Story structure: beginning-middle-end
• Critical thinking
• KWL
• QAR