Teach your child to read a simple weather forecast and use it to make real decisions about clothes, gear, and plans.

Read a child-friendly biography of Tennessee's own Dolly Parton, focusing on her love of reading and the Imagination Library. Includes discussion questions.

Learn to identify how two things are the same and different. Introduce Venn diagrams and practice comparing short passages and characters.

Learn to find the main idea in a paragraph using a simple strategy, then practice with short passages and discussion questions.

Learn what reading fluency is, why it matters, and practice with short repeated-reading passages at the grade 2 level.

Discover how informational text is different from stories. Learn to use headings, bold words, and captions, then practice with a nonfiction passage about Tennessee wildlife.

Practice retelling stories in order using who, what, where, when, and why. Build comprehension by putting events in your own words.

Learn to put story events in the correct order using signal words like first, next, then, and last. Includes a cut-and-sort activity idea.

A graphic organizer with who, what, where, when, why boxes and beginning-middle-end sections for retelling stories after reading.

Learn to figure out the meaning of unknown words using context clues in the sentence. Includes modeling and practice sentences.