Writing is also crucial to their understanding of the printed word so the use of a writing book with a work page and sentence strips are the tools for this part of the lesson. See the address below for more information concerning the Reading Recovery Program. Strategies are practiced but vocabulary grows. In writing, the second graders will go through a process called 6 Traits of Writing. Each trait is discussed with a particular book suited to that trait and activities are engaged so that their understanding will occur.
Children then produce a writing of each trait.