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2nd Grade Language Arts Standards
Language Arts Standards
By the end of 2nd grade, students are expected to be within the Transitional level on the continuum of skills and competencies. At the Transitional level, students will be able to:
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Demonstrate phonemic awareness by blending sounds to make words, identifying individual sounds in words, taking sounds out, and substituting sounds to make new words.
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Use structural cues to recognize and decode words with long and short vowels.
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Determine the meaning of words and phrases in context.
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Read a variety of narrative and informational grade level text fluently.
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Identify the form and purpose of narrative genres such as poetry, fantasy, legends, and drama.
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Describe characters’ actions and motivations, setting, problem/solution, and summarize sequence of events.
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Understand features of informational text including boldface type, graphs, maps, diagrams, and charts.
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Make text-to-self and text-to-text connections and comparisons.
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Retell a story in sequence using the main idea, relevant details and theme.
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Select books of interest for independent reading; make an effort to read unfamiliar text.
Writing
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Writes narratives using sequence and description.
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Writes opinion pieces stating an opinion and supplying supporting reasons.
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Writes informational pieces about a topic.
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Writes supporting details to develop the topic and provides a sense of closure.
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Writes complete sentences.
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Uses accurate punctuation and capitalization.
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Correctly spells priority words in everyday writing.
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Handwriting shows correct letter formation and spacing.
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Uses technology to produce and publish writing
Speaking, Listening and Viewing
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Communicate to ask questions, give answers, and have discussions.
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Know that spoken language differs between school and home.
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Respond to multiple text types by reflecting, making connections, and sharing understanding.
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Give, restate and follow three-step and four-step directions.
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Ask appropriate questions during presentations
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2nd Grade Mathematics Standards
Math Standards
The Mathematical Standards are the end of year goals for 2nd grade children. Although it is understood that children develop at different rates, the goal is that students will be able to demonstrate competency in these areas:
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
• Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
• Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems using a variety of strategies using numbers, symbols, and units.
• Find missing values to open sentences (42+___=57).
• Add and subtract within 20.
• Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.
• Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication.
• Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) is odd or even.
• Use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in an array.
• Write an equation to express the sum of an array.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
• Understand place value.
• Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones.
• 100 can be thought of as a bundle of ten tens—called a “hundred.”
• The numbers 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine hundreds (and 0 tens and 0 ones).
• Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
• Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
• Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, >, and = symbols to record the results of comparisons.
• Use place value understanding and properties to add and subtract.
• Fluently add and subtract within 100 with and without regrouping.
• Add up to four two-digit numbers.
• Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies to explain how the problem was solved.
• Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100-900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from given number 100-900.
Measurement and Data
• Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.
• Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.
• Measure the length of an object, using two different units of measure; compare and describe how the two measurements relate to the object measured.
• Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.
• Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit.
• Relate addition and subtraction to length.
• Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units.
• Represent whole numbers as lengths on a number line, and represent whole-number sums and differences within 100 on a number line diagram.
• Work with time and money.
• Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m. Å
• Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately.
• Represent and interpret data.
• Generate measurement data by measuring lengths of several objects to the nearest whole unit. Show the measurements by making a line plot, using whole number units on a horizontal scale.
• Draw a picture graph and a bar graph to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems using information presented in a bar graph.
Geometry
• Reason with shapes and their attributes.
• Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes. Å
• Divide a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares and count to find the total number of them.
• Divide circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths.
• Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.
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2nd Grade Science Standards
Science Standards
Students will learn about the following science strands:
Structure and Properties of Matter- Sort objects according to observable properties.
- Identify materials that are attracted to a magnet.
- Demonstrate properties of water.
Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
- Plan and conduct an investigation to determine if plants need sunlight and water to grow.
- Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.
- Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
Earth’s Systems: Processes that Shape the Earth
- Use information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly.
- Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.
- Develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area.
- Obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.
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2nd Grade Social Studies Standards
Social Studies Standards
In each of the following areas, students will:
History
• Learn how people and events from the past have affected the development of our country.
• Using the concept of past, present and future, create a timeline of local events.
• Discover that history is learned through stories of the past told from varying points of view.
• Understand how traditions and celebrations help us learn about and remember our past.
Geography
• Use the Five Themes of Geography: location, place, human/environment interaction, movement and region.
• Map the local community and discover where it is in relationship to the state, country and world.
• Learn how people use and change the environment and the importance of protecting our environment.
Civics
• Know the main purposes of government.
• Understand why communities need laws.
• Become familiar with key concepts relating to local government.
Economics
• Describe how businesses in the local community meet economic needs and wants of consumers.
• Understand how resources are used to produce goods and services.
• Identify ways families manage resources and make decisions.
Public Discourse/Decision Making/Citizen Involvement
• Discuss a local public issue.
• Begin to demonstrate the ability to express a position on a public policy issue.
• Participate in community projects to help or inform others.
