BJU Press Grade 2 Reading

The BJU Press Reading 2 curriculum is centered upon four student text readers: Reading 2A: All God's Creatures, Reading 2B: Hearts and Hands, Reading 2C: Memories to Keep, and Reading 2D: Precious Treasures student texts.

Within the readers, engaging artwork changes with each story and provides visual interest for early readers. Before reading the selection, an easy-to-understand page introduces a relevant literary element. The story is followed by a "Think and Discuss" section that features discussion questions and new vocabulary, and often also features a "Look Again" section that provides an additional activity or question. Interesting and developmen tally-appropriate selections come from a variety of sources, including realistic and historical fiction, fables, folktales, Bible accounts, biography, drama, and poetry. Chapters progress in difficulty and are sequenced for readability and skill progression.

The teacher's edition features two volumes. Reduced-size student reader pages are included with the margins filled with notes for the teacher. These helpful notes include information on the phonics used, objectives, a list of materials needed, "Before reading" work, questions to accompany the reading, and "After Reading" work including review questions, vocabulary pages, and workbook page assignments.

Two BJ Booklinks sets (book and BJ Booklinks guide) are also included: Pulling Together and The Treasure of Pelican Grove. The BJ Booklinks guides include a number of activities and questions to help students dig deeper into their readings, including a Scriptural application.

The Student Worksheets focus on specific reading skills such as phonics, comprehension, sequencing, and other early-reading skills. Students will finish sentence completions, number sentences in story order, match words to pictures, separate compound words, identify phonics elements within words, and more.

The Worktext Answer Key features full-size reproductions of the student workbook pages have the correct answers overlaid in pink ink for easy grading.

This kit includes:

• Teacher's Edition

• Reading 2A: All God's Creatures
• Reading 2B: Hearts and Hands
• Reading 2C: Memories to Keep
• Reading 2D: Precious Treasures
• BJ Booklinks: The Treasure of Pelican Cove
• The Treasure of Pelican Cove, 104 pages, softcover.
• BJ Booklinks: Pulling Together
• Pulling Together, 135 pages, softcover
• Student Worktext; 346 non-reproducible, consumable pages; three-ring-punched with detached spine and glue binding for pages. 3rd Edition.
• Worktext Answer Key, 346 pages, indexed, softcover, spiralbound.

BJU Press' Reading 2 Worktext features activities that coordinate with the Reading 2A: All God's Creatures, Reading 2B: Hearts and Hands, Reading 2C: Memories to Keep, and Reading 2D: Precious Treasures student texts.

Worksheets focus on specific reading skills such as phonics, comprehension, sequencing, and other early-reading skills. Students will finish sentence completions, number sentences in story order, match words to pictures, separate compound words, identify phonics elements within words, and more. At the bottom of each page, the page number and lesson number of the student text are noted for easy alignment. 346 non-reproducible, consumable pages; three-ring-punched with detached spine and glue binding for pages. 3rd Edition.

This Worktext Answer Key accompanies BJU Press' Reading 2 Student Worktext, 3rd Edition (sold-separately).Full-size reproductions of the student workbook pages have the correct answers overlaid in pink ink for easy grading. 346 pages, indexed, softcover, spiralbound.

Reading 2 Teacher's Edition, 3rd Ed., 2 volumes provides phonics instruction for review, multi-level discussion questions to promote critical thinking, and suggestions for pre-reading and post-reading activities to meet multiple-learning needs. Lesson instruction promotes the use of reading groups to help teachers tailor instruction to meet students' varied reading levels. Teachers use silent reading to teach students to read for learning and then use good questions to guide discussion which builds comprehension. Oral reading follows to communicate the message of the author by using inflections, rhythm, pitch sounds, and so forth. This new edition has 180 lessons and includes new features, such as two BookLinks and book-report instructions. The Teacher's Toolkit contains additional instructional aids for phonics and literary skills, bi-quarterly assessments, service word cards, vocabulary context sentences, the Student Worktext Answer Key, and more.

New Feature: The Reading 2 Teacher's Edition now includes guides and novels for two sold-separately and not included BJ BookLinks: The Treasure of Pelican Cove< and Pulling Together. Corresponding student novels are available for purchase separately.

This Reading Teacher's Edition includes assessment packets and blackline masters authorizing their reproduction for assessment purposes.

BJU Press’ Reading 2A: All God's Creatures is the first in a series of four readers in the BJU Press Reading 2 curriculum (each reader is sold-separately). Engaging artwork changes with each story and provides visual interest for early readers. Before reading the selection, an easy-to-understand page introduces a relevant literary element; for example, children might learn about onomatopoeia ("sound effect words") before reading a poem that features words like "thump" or "buzz." The story is followed by a "Think and Discuss" section that features discussion questions and new vocabulary, and often also features a "Look Again" section that provides an additional activity or question. Interesting and developmentally appropriate reading selections come from a variety of sources, including realistic and historical fiction, fables, folktales, Bible accounts, biography, drama, and poetry. Chapters progress in difficulty and are sequenced for readability and skill progression. 208 pages, softcover. Grade 2.

Reading 2B Hearts and Hands is the second in a series of four readers in the BJU Press Reading 2 curriculum (each reader is sold separately). Each reader contains full color illustrations and provides engaging, grade level appropriate selections from a variety of genres, such as fables, folktales, Bible accounts, biography, poetry, drama, and realistic and historical fiction. Background information, discussion questions, vocabulary words, additional activities, and instruction in phonics, oral reading, literary techniques, and reading comprehension are included for most selections.  Selections progress in difficulty and are sequenced for readability and skill progression. 224 pages, softcover. Grade 2.

Reading 2C Memories to Keep is the third in a series of four readers in the BJU Press Reading 2 curriculum (each reader is sold separately). Each reader contains full color illustrations and provides engaging, grade level appropriate selections from a variety of genres, such as fables, folktales, Bible accounts, biography, poetry, drama, and realistic and historical fiction. Background information, discussion questions, vocabulary words, additional activities, and instruction in phonics, oral reading, literary techniques, and reading comprehension are included for most selections.  Selections progress in difficulty and are sequenced for readability and skill progression. 200 pages, softcover. Grade 2.

BJU Press’ Reading 2D: Precious Treasures is the last in a series of four readers in the BJU Press Reading 2 curriculum (each reader is sold-separately). Engaging artwork changes with each story and provides visual interest for early readers. Before some selections, an easy-to-understand page introduces relevant literary elements or background information; for example, children might learn about word pictures before reading a poem. "Think as you Read" questions give students a focus to keep in mind as they read through the selection. The story is followed by a "Think and Discuss" section that features discussion questions and new vocabulary; "Look Again" sections that provide an additional activity or question are also included after some passages. Interesting and developmentally appropriate selections come from a variety of sources, including realistic and historical fiction, fables, folktales, Bible accounts, biography, drama, and poetry. Chapters progress in difficulty and are sequenced for readability and skill progression.  188 pages, softcover. Grade 2.

Give your struggling readers an extra boost of confidence with Phonics Review. This colorful textbook isn't threatening, and the consistent practice will help instill the confidence to move forward. Poems, beginning/ending sounds, writing, word families, long/short vowels, plurals, and syllables are all covered in a variety of fun exercises. Designed to be used independently by the student, teacher assistance may be required where the student is particularly struggling. 258 pages, softcover. Index included.

BJ BookLinks are designed to link novels to BJU Press content areas (e.g. science and heritage studies). Each set includes a pocket folder with directions for enrichment activities; a softcover teaching guide with lesson plans, vocabulary, and reproducible work pages (answer key included); and includes novel Carolina's Courage .

Grade 2.

This booklink kit includes both the novel "Pulling Together" by Dawn L. Watkins and the booklink guide. Developing understanding and evaluation skills, the laminated booklink folder provides background information, enrichment activities, and useful storage pockets while the teaching guide includes lessons, practical scriptural applications, and dozens of reproducible activity pages.

Grade 2

BJ BookLinks are designed to link novels to BJU Press content areas (e.g. science and heritage studies). Each set includes a pocket folder with directions for enrichment activities; a softcover teaching guide with lesson plans, vocabulary, and reproducible work pages (answer key included); and includes novel The Treasure of Pelican Cove .

Grade 2.