Down the River Road Grade 2 Book #1

• Three-Book Reading System: Includes Down the River Road, Friendly Village, and Neighbors on the Hill, each serving a specific purpose in developing reading skills throughout Grade 2
• Flexible Teaching Tool: Functions as a review of Grade 1 vocabulary, independent reading material for advanced students, challenge content for average readers, or primary instruction book for developing readers
• Vocabulary Development Focus: Down the River Road reviews previous year’s words while Friendly Village introduces the majority of new vocabulary for the grade level
• Parallel Reader Included: Neighbors on the Hill applies learned vocabulary to new content, building reading confidence and fluency with age-appropriate material
• Alice and Jerry Basic Reading Program: Part of the structured reading curriculum originally published in 1957, designed with systematic skill progression
• ISBN 9781597654593: Reprint edition maintaining the proven methodology of the original 1957 program

In Grade 2 there are three readers. Down the River Road can be used in four ways for different student purposes: as a quick review of the vocabulary from the previous year; as independent reading for accomplished readers; to provide new challenges for average readers; and as a regular teaching book for less proficient students. Friendly Village presents the bulk of the new vocabulary. Neighbors on the Hill is a parallel reader designed to apply vocabulary to new content and to develop confidence, power, and pleasure in reading by supplying content well within the range of a pupils reading ability.

Alice and Jerry Basic Reading Program:

This carefully structured reading program was first published in 1957