I am using McGraw-Hill Reading Wonders, second grade, as my curriculum. We began with a non-fiction passage about meerkats; I read the passage, and we discussed the text. The theme is animal survival and adaptation. As I read, we created a graphic organizer on the board to note details. Next, I read a fictional passage, "A Visit to the Desert." We paused as I read to make predictions and ask questions. After reading, we sequenced the story on the board (beginning, middle, end). Looking closely at the text, we discussed the prefixes in the words "unhappy" and "disappear" and noticed how the prefixes changed the meaning of the root word. We brainstormed other words with the prefixes. I introduced the concept of a sentence (a group of words with an "actor" and an "action" that makes a complete thought. I wrote sentences on the board for Remington to edit (capitalize the first word and add punctuation to the end of the sentence). To conclude, we looked through Remington's "Captain Underpants" book and found words that he could decode.