Kumon Grade 2 Reading (Kumon Reading Workbooks)

My son found the activities in this book easy. It starts with very simple things and gradually increases in difficulty. I definitely recommend it. My boy is in second grade right now!. In the past he was doing Kumon in person. It is really good program, that's whay we diced to get the book.

Every summer I buy workbooks for my two boys. This year I chose Kumon, I purchase the whole collection of Grade 4 for my son going into 4th grade and the whole collection of Grade 3 (thinking Grade 2 would be too easy) for my son going into 2nd grade. Later on I found that my younger son had difficulties in some areas in Grade 3 so I bought Grade 2. This has been a great guidance for my kids and I. The books helped my kids learn step by step and I really do see improvements. Its great for me, I simply use the answer sheet to correct and it helps me find out what their weaknesses are. Overall I really like Kumon workbooks compare to previous companies that I have purchased because I do see improvements. Next year I will purchase Kumon again.

great practice book for a bit extra homework for 2nd grader who needs a bit reinforcement. Very clear instruction, nicely arranged, good quality paper.

Helped my son over the summer but I felt it was too basic for him and very easy. It didn’t really hold his interest and I’m not sure he ended up doing that much. I hoped to use it as a review - next time I would just age up and challenge him a bit more

My son finished this book over the course of the school year, I use these books as supplements for when my kid doesn't have any assigned homework. The rule in our house is at least 30 minutes of homework per day, so if the teacher hasn't assigned any, we turn to these books. This particular book is excellent in that it progressively gets more challenging. It has a series of short stories and then the child answers questions, practices handwriting, etc. There is a spot for the reviewer to "grade" the answers and enter a score, and he liked that too.

I have ordered all the books in the 3rd and 4th grade series...math and reading/writing. After I ordered 2 books, I was so impressed that I wanted them all. It is perfect for "filling in the gaps" for my son. He can work at his own pace and continue learning throughout the summer. We are going to continue with these books throughout the school year. I would highly recommend these books to any parent who wants to help their child make major improvements in reading and math.

This is good for transition from 1st to 2nd grade. The first half of the workbook introduces spelling structures and vowel sounds in a scaffolded method. The second half is reading comprehension. It moves from short passages to longer ones. Main idea questions, then detail qustions and finally detail questions.

Kumon product line is great. I have been using their workbooks and I highly recommend them. Just be careful on some of the books like the learning with money one because the prints are very small that they are hard to see. Overall I enjoy these books in teaching my toddler. Good job, Kumon!

この本は小4の3月から取り組みました。 出てくる単語は、first,fur、horn、hard,jar,cart,fork、hen,fun,soil,boil、join、loud、round、mouth、mouse、arrow、bow、crow、throw他多数。フォニックスの考え方を入れて単語が並んでいるので、読みの予想ができます。 カラフルなイラストも添えてあるのでいいです。 くっつき言葉＝uphill、rainbow,snowflake、fireplaceなど。同義語＝coldとicy、bigとlarge、strongとsturdyなど。反意語＝upとdown、leftとright、inとout、topとbottom、smileとfrownなど。疑問詞、短いお話と読解力問題、短いお話（160語まで程）を読んでイラストの順序をととのえるなど。短い文章には過去完了、stop to doも、仮定法もでてきます。 短い文章はくすっと笑えるオチがあり、楽しいものもあります。 また、簡単な科学的な論説文もあります。 他に子どもの身近な日常生活、アリとキリギリス（他にも童話があります）、飼い犬の視点から書かれた女の子と飼い犬の話も。 文法の説明はきっちりしなくても、日本語でざっくり意味を教えてやって、子どもは意味が分かった上でスラスラ読み慣れるといいと思います。 その音を聞き慣れてから、仮定法や過去完了の文法を教えたらいいと思います。 日本人幼児向け、小学生向けの問題集より圧倒的に語彙が増えます。短い文では、中3の教科書くらいの長さでしょうか。もっと長いかもしれません。日本人向け問題集より英文に慣れられます。 英語学習歴は小3の11月から。家で、アルクの絵じてんで単語を聞くところからです。 教室通いはしていなくて、両親とも英語は喋れません。 中学英語は理解できる母親と取組中。Grade１で形式や出題・紙面に慣れているので戸惑うことなく1日１課しています。 １日目、２日目、１週間後、２週間後、１か月後、の目安で５回同じページを繰り返して。 （後ろの方の文章を読む部分では７回位繰り返すかもしれません） 順調に進めており、同じクラスで英検２級に合格している（保育園からall Englishのところに通っている）子にはかなわないけれど、ちまたの英語教室に小３くらいから通っている子よりよくできると言っています。本人の感覚なので、何とも言えませんが。 しかし、力はやっただけついているようです。 設問も答えも、必ず音読させるよう気をつけています。 小5の1月に受けた英検5級では満点合格しました。小4終わりに5級問題をさせたら、文法問題ができなかったので小5初めから中1問題集を3回繰り返しました。 中学に上がる前でないと時間が取れないので、小学生で取り組むのにいい本だと思います。

Good for beginers

Good for home practice

Very useful.

Great tool for reading!