G2.E-01Ages 7–8 · Grade 2 · English
Reading Independent Fluency & Structural Decoding
English & Expressive Literacy
Your child reads early chapter books smoothly out loud with expression, using context clues and prefix/suffix definitions to unpack unfamiliar multi-syllable words.
In real life
Your child reads a book independently and uses the prefix un- to figure out that unhappy means not happy, or re- to see that re-read means to read again.
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