Title: Matter Pack, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Level 4: Developing
Release Date: 04/15/25
Type: Reading Academy Pack
Brand: Albert Whitman,FarFaria,HOMER
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: 2nd Grade
Launchpad Description: This 5-level guided reading system helps kids master verbal, reading, and writing skills — starting at any level. Every app, storybook, and video has been hand-selected to help kids gain the knowledge they need to transition from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn.
Developing packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestones:
- Can recount a story with descriptive detail
- Asks for clarification when needed
- Starting to decode unknown long vowel words
- Reads text with accuracy
- Writes using a topic
- Will spell more complex, long vowel words
This Launchpad contains the following apps:
2nd Grade Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension (App)
Improve your reading skills! Designed for the student looking for an advantage in solidifying their reading and understanding skills: This collection of 10 original stories was written specifically for this app Read and test your comprehension with a variety of questions about the selected passages Study anywhere and learn at your own pace Each passage and question set takes approximately 4-6 minutes to complete Specifically appropriate content chosen at the 2nd grade level Increase student reading comprehension and their scores! Aligned with CCSS - Common Core State Standards for 2nd Grade: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension Answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts
All About Dancers (App)
Let's learn about different kinds of dance styles in this interactive story. Speakaboos’ parent app, HOMER, is a proven early learning program that builds personalized learning plans for children ages 2-8 - complete with this story and others like this!
Alphabet Sounds Word Study (App)
Word Study is a widely research-based spelling approach whose purpose is to examine words in order to reveal the logic within written language and to help students achieve mastery in recognizing, spelling, and defining specific words.
CC 2nd Grade Reading - Sight Words - Volume 1 (App)
This first in a series of Common Core programs teaches the sight words covered in weeks 1 through 9 of 2nd Grade, where kids learn words such as "laugh," "together," "never," "about," "myself," etc. Join young host Marisa, who explains what sight words are, and enthusiastically presents each word, sounds it out slowly, and uses it in a simple sentence with on-screen graphics and illustrations that reinforce the use of the particular sight word.
CC 2nd Grade Reading - Sight Words - Volume 2 (App)
This second in a series of Common Core programs teaches the sight words covered in weeks 10 through 18 of 2nd Grade, where kids learn words such as "bring," "drink," "better," "light," "carry," etc. Join young host Marisa, who explains what sight words are, and enthusiastically presents each word, sounds it out slowly, and uses it in a simple sentence with on-screen graphics and illustrations that reinforce the use of the particular sight word.
Fairy Song (App)
Celebrate Louisa May Alcott's birthday by enjoying one of her classic poems. FarFaria's "Fairy Song" is designed to provide children with a perfect story time experience. Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and the Common Core Reading Level, independently measured using the Lexile Framework.
Feelin' the Beat: A Buddy Bolden Story (App)
Hey there jazz cats! Have a New Orleans adventure and learn about the beginnings of jazz! FarFaria's "Feelin' the Beat: A Buddy Bolden Story" is designed to provide children with a perfect story time experience. Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and the Common Core Reading Level, independently measured using the Lexile Framework.
Kids Spelling Fun (App)
A self paced educational learning app that teaches children how to spell more than 500 common English words. The learning process is accomplished in three stages: learning, practise and checking. The program consists of word sets beginning with easy three letter words and working up to eight letter words as well as theme based words covering subjects such as animals, colors, fruit, shapes, numbers transportation and vegetables. In learning mode, the program shows a picture of the new word being learnt and the word is read aloud, the completed word is also shown momentarily. Children can then select the letters that make up word with the ability to revisit the completed word as many times as necessary. In practise mode, the completed word is not shown, but feedback is provided to indicate whether the word is spelt correctly with advancement to the next word only possible when the word has been correctly completed. In check and test mode, no hints on the correct spelling of
Mozart and Beethoven Rock! (App)
These two young musicians really know how to rock! But will they learn how to share the spotlight? Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and a standards-aligned reading level, independently measured using the Lexile framework.
Sight Words Sentences (App)
Children can build a strong foundation for reading by practicing 220 of the most common sight words used in sentences.
Waynetta and the Cornstalk (app)
Times sure are tough on the ranch, and Waynetta and her ma can use all the luck they can get. But when Waynetta trades their last longhorn for a handful of so-called magic corn, Ma is non too pleased. A fast-paced Texas retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk featuring a girl hero.
What's Bugging Nurse Penny? (app)
At an impromptu school assembly, Nurse Penny educates students about lice—and confesses that she's been afflicted, too.
Subtitle: Level 4: Developing
Release Date: 04/15/25
Type: Reading Academy Pack
Brand: Albert Whitman,FarFaria,HOMER
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: 2nd Grade
Launchpad Description: This 5-level guided reading system helps kids master verbal, reading, and writing skills — starting at any level. Every app, storybook, and video has been hand-selected to help kids gain the knowledge they need to transition from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn.
Developing packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestones:
- Can recount a story with descriptive detail
- Asks for clarification when needed
- Starting to decode unknown long vowel words
- Reads text with accuracy
- Writes using a topic
- Will spell more complex, long vowel words
This Launchpad contains the following apps:
2nd Grade Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension (App)
Improve your reading skills! Designed for the student looking for an advantage in solidifying their reading and understanding skills: This collection of 10 original stories was written specifically for this app Read and test your comprehension with a variety of questions about the selected passages Study anywhere and learn at your own pace Each passage and question set takes approximately 4-6 minutes to complete Specifically appropriate content chosen at the 2nd grade level Increase student reading comprehension and their scores! Aligned with CCSS - Common Core State Standards for 2nd Grade: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension Answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts
All About Dancers (App)
Let's learn about different kinds of dance styles in this interactive story. Speakaboos’ parent app, HOMER, is a proven early learning program that builds personalized learning plans for children ages 2-8 - complete with this story and others like this!
Alphabet Sounds Word Study (App)
Word Study is a widely research-based spelling approach whose purpose is to examine words in order to reveal the logic within written language and to help students achieve mastery in recognizing, spelling, and defining specific words.
CC 2nd Grade Reading - Sight Words - Volume 1 (App)
This first in a series of Common Core programs teaches the sight words covered in weeks 1 through 9 of 2nd Grade, where kids learn words such as "laugh," "together," "never," "about," "myself," etc. Join young host Marisa, who explains what sight words are, and enthusiastically presents each word, sounds it out slowly, and uses it in a simple sentence with on-screen graphics and illustrations that reinforce the use of the particular sight word.
CC 2nd Grade Reading - Sight Words - Volume 2 (App)
This second in a series of Common Core programs teaches the sight words covered in weeks 10 through 18 of 2nd Grade, where kids learn words such as "bring," "drink," "better," "light," "carry," etc. Join young host Marisa, who explains what sight words are, and enthusiastically presents each word, sounds it out slowly, and uses it in a simple sentence with on-screen graphics and illustrations that reinforce the use of the particular sight word.
Fairy Song (App)
Celebrate Louisa May Alcott's birthday by enjoying one of her classic poems. FarFaria's "Fairy Song" is designed to provide children with a perfect story time experience. Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and the Common Core Reading Level, independently measured using the Lexile Framework.
Feelin' the Beat: A Buddy Bolden Story (App)
Hey there jazz cats! Have a New Orleans adventure and learn about the beginnings of jazz! FarFaria's "Feelin' the Beat: A Buddy Bolden Story" is designed to provide children with a perfect story time experience. Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and the Common Core Reading Level, independently measured using the Lexile Framework.
Kids Spelling Fun (App)
A self paced educational learning app that teaches children how to spell more than 500 common English words. The learning process is accomplished in three stages: learning, practise and checking. The program consists of word sets beginning with easy three letter words and working up to eight letter words as well as theme based words covering subjects such as animals, colors, fruit, shapes, numbers transportation and vegetables. In learning mode, the program shows a picture of the new word being learnt and the word is read aloud, the completed word is also shown momentarily. Children can then select the letters that make up word with the ability to revisit the completed word as many times as necessary. In practise mode, the completed word is not shown, but feedback is provided to indicate whether the word is spelt correctly with advancement to the next word only possible when the word has been correctly completed. In check and test mode, no hints on the correct spelling of
Mozart and Beethoven Rock! (App)
These two young musicians really know how to rock! But will they learn how to share the spotlight? Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and a standards-aligned reading level, independently measured using the Lexile framework.
Sight Words Sentences (App)
Children can build a strong foundation for reading by practicing 220 of the most common sight words used in sentences.
Waynetta and the Cornstalk (app)
Times sure are tough on the ranch, and Waynetta and her ma can use all the luck they can get. But when Waynetta trades their last longhorn for a handful of so-called magic corn, Ma is non too pleased. A fast-paced Texas retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk featuring a girl hero.
What's Bugging Nurse Penny? (app)
At an impromptu school assembly, Nurse Penny educates students about lice—and confesses that she's been afflicted, too.
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