Grade 2

Reading Literature and Informational Text (range of reading and text complexity)  

Writing (range of writing)  

Speaking and Listening  

Language  

Foundational Skills 

Students inquire about and comprehend key ideas and details in a variety of texts.

Students investigate the craft and structure of a variety of texts.

Students integrate knowledge to make meaningful connections between ideas in diverse texts.

Students apply their knowledge of text types and purposes.

Students use various processes to produce and distribute a wide range of their writing.

Students research to build and present knowledge in writing.

Students present their knowledge and ideas orally and comprehensibly

Students apply strategies for listening and collaborate with others to comprehend what is heard and spoken.

Students apply strategies to comprehend and utilize vocabulary appropriately in a variety of contexts: social, instructional, and academic.

Students recognize and apply conventions of English in order to produce oral and written texts.

Students apply print concepts when they read.

Students utilize phonological skills when they read.

Students apply phonics and word recognition skills when they read.

Students read a range of texts with fluency.

Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text

Recount multiple details of texts, including description and explanation of the setting or context, and the moral, lesson, or main idea

Examine how individuals in a fiction or nonf iction story respond to major events and challenges

Identify the main topic of a multipar agraph text and retell key ideas of a text

Describe the connections between a series of historical events, scient ific ideas, or concepts in a text

Use strategies to determine the meaning of unknown words and phrases in grade-level texts

Know and use various text feat ures of expository texts to locate key facts or information in a text

Identify the narrator of a text, and demonstrate by reading dialogue aloud how characters have different voices

Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, and repeated lines)

Use information from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of characters, setting, and plot

Compare and contrast two or more versions of t he same story or topic, by different authors or from different cultures

Examine why characters act or behave as they do in a story

Write opinion pieces that introduce a topic or book, using appropriate language to state opinion and give reasons

Write informative/explanatory texts in paragraph form that have an introduction, body, and conclusion

Write narratives recounting a well-elaborated ev ent, including descriptive details of setting, actions, and character, and show understanding of how verb tense contributes to the telling of the story

Demonstrate and produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to a task and purpose (e.g., writing friendly correspondence)

Focus on a topic, with a peer, to stre ngthen writing as needed by revising and editing

Use a variety of digital tools to produce a nd publish writing, with guidance and support, including collaboration with peers

Draw evidence from literary or informational text s to support interpretation, inference, reflection, and research in shared research and writing projects (e.g., report on a topic)

Recall information from experience, or gather in formation from provided sources, to ask and answer questions

Tell a story or recount an experience with approp riate facts and relevant des criptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences

Recognize that intonat ion, expression, and emphasis are part of meaning

Memorize a poem or song performed orally

Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood

Participate in collaborative c onversations about grade 2 topics and texts, with diverse partners, and with peers and adults in small and large groups

Apply strategies to determine or clarify t he meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases in grade 2 reading and content, with a focus on adjectives and adverbs

Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings

Apply word knowledge when producing oral and written texts, with support

Demonstrate, with support, a developing grade -level appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking

Demonstrate, with support, a developing grade -level appropriate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punc tuation, and spelling when writing

Demonstrate understanding of the or ganization and basic features of print

Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes)

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words

Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension