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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2nd grade level isn't that advanced. remember the grade levels are based on a fairly low bar.  Make sure she knows all her letter blends and letter sounds. Talk about common prefixes and suffixes. Phonics might not be covered with enough depth at your school. [b]Vocabulary building is helpful for building reading comprehension skills.  Look at the Wordly Wise series of workbooks.[/b]  [/quote]

I strongly disagree with this advice. The best way to improve your vocabulary is through reading and talking, not through direct vocabulary instruction like workbooks -- especially for beginning readers.[/quote]

Kids will only get so far learning vocab on their own especially when they are reading harder books then their reading level. This is because they will skip the word all together and not even really try to give it a meaning because they get the general idea from the rest of the sentence and sentences.  Often the bigger words they can not even sound out properly in 1 or 2nd grade yet.  This is one of the major reasons I saw that kids who were advanced readers in K, 1st, and 2nd leveled off in 3rd.  They were at the point that they needed to be able to understand all the words in context.

So yes, the majority of kids are going to need direct vocabulary instruction at some point.  [/quote]  But the point is that it should be in relation to what they are reading. They are called context clues. Wordly Wise teaches vocabulary in isolation. It is not directly connected to what the child is reading. Somehow we managed to learn an extensive vocabulary when I was in school through conversations and something called a dictionary. [/quote]

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