Second Grade Curriculum at a Glance
Reading Fiction and Nonfiction
- Uses comprehension strategies to understand text
- Retells and summarizes stories to include story elements (character(s), setting, plot, resolution)
- Uses text features to understand nonfiction text (headings, captions, pictures)
- Retells details from nonfiction text
- Uses the table of contents, index, and glossary to locate information
- Identifies author’s main purpose
- Compares and contrasts characters, stories, or genres
Foundations of Reading
- Reads grade-level text at an appropriate rate with expression to support understanding
- Knows and applies grade-level phonics and decoding strategies
- Reads common high frequency words by sight
Writing
- Focuses on a topic and adds details
- Writes for different purposes: Narrative, Informative, Opinion
- Develops and strengthens writing by using the writing process
Language
- Uses capital letters and punctuation appropriately
- Uses parts of speech correctly (nouns, verbs, adjectives)
- Writes complete sentences (subject/verb agreement)
- Understands many meanings of words and uses them in reading and writing (antonyms, synonyms, etc.)
Speaking and Listening
- Participates effectively in discussions within a group
- Expresses complete thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly
Handwriting
- Forms letters and numbers correctly
Word Study (Spelling)
- Applies learned spelling skills in daily writing
- Spells words in isolation (differentiated BEAR assessments)
Math
- Adds fluently with sums of 0-20
- Subtracts fluently with differences of 0-20
- Reads, writes, and represents whole numbers up to 1,000 in a variety of ways
- Understands place value (thousands, hundreds, tens, ones)
- Compares two and three digit numbers using greater than, less than, or equal to
- Uses place value understanding to add with and without regrouping
- Uses place value understanding to subtract with and without regrouping
- Works with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication
- Describes, extends, and creates patterns
- Uses addition and subtraction strategies within 100 to solve word problems
- Tells and writes time to the nearest five minutes
- Counts a mixed group of coins up to $1.00
- Measures and estimates length
- Identifies and draws 2D shapes with specified attributes
- Identifies and draws halves, thirds, and fourths
- Writes and solves word problems using data from graphs
Social Studies
- Examines the importance and basic principles of the American government
- Understands simple economic concepts in the American economy
- Constructs basic maps using a legend, scale, and compass rose
- Identifies natural landforms and bodies of water
- Examines the lives of notable Americans who expanded people’s rights and freedoms in the American system of government
Science
- Observes, measures, classifies and experiments with objects, organisms, or events in the environment
- Understands how animals and plants relate to each other in natural surroundings
- Shows adequate understanding of the properties and changes of the earth and sky
- Makes observations about matter and why it sometimes changes states (i.e., liquid to solid and solid to liquid by heating or cooling)
- Makes observations about the different ways that wind and water shape the Earth’s surface