2nd Grade English Language Arts

Students will actively listen using agreed-upon discussion rules.

Students will follow two- and three-step oral directions.

Students will work respectfully with peers.

Students will engage in collaborative discussions about topics and texts, including their own writing, with peers in small and large groups.

Students will ask and answer relevant questions to seek help or gather information to confirm understanding.

Students will orally describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing their ideas and feelings.

Students will count, blend, segment, and delete syllables in spoken words.

Students will blend and segment onset and rime in spoken words.

Students will isolate and pronounce medial sounds in spoken words.

Students will blend phonemes to form spoken words with 4-6 phonemes, including consonant blends.

Students will segment phonemes in spoken words with 4-6 phonemes into individual phonemes.

Students will add, delete, and substitute phonemes in one-syllable spoken words with 3-5 phonemes.

Students will correctly form letters in print and use appropriate spacing for letters, words, and sentences.

Students will decode one- and two-syllable words by using their knowledge of the following phonics skills: single consonants, consonant blends, consonant digraphs and trigraphs, vowel-consonant-silent e, r-controlled vowels, vowel digraphs, vowel diphthongs, schwa, and silent letter combinations.

Students will decode words by applying knowledge of all major syllable types.

Students will decode words by applying knowledge of structural analysis: compound words, inflectional endings, contractions, abbreviations, common roots, and related prefixes and suffixes.

Students will use correct spelling when writing the following sounds in words: digraphs, trigraphs, vowel digraphs, r-controlled.

Students will use correct spelling when writing the following syllable types in single-syllable and multisyllabic words: closed, open, vowel-consonant-silent e, r-controlled.

Students will use structural analysis to correctly spell the following parts of words: common prefixes, common suffixes, common spelling rules related to adding prefixes and suffixes.

Students will expand their sight word vocabulary by reading regularly- and irregularly-spelled words in isolation and context with increasing automaticity.

Students will orally and accurately read grade-level text at a smooth rate with expression that connotes comprehension.

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details of a text.

Students will identify elements of various genres in fiction and nonfiction texts.

Students will begin to summarize the plot of a story to include the beginning, middle, and end.

Students will begin to summarize facts and details from an informational text.

Students will prewrite and develop drafts by sequencing the action in a story or details about a topic through writing sentences.

Students will edit drafts using appropriate spacing between letters, words, and sentences.

Students will revise drafts by adding, deleting, and/or moving text.

Students will correctly spell grade-level words while editing using resources as needed.

Students will routinely use a recursive process to publish final drafts for an authentic audience.

Students will determine the author’s purpose.

Students will determine whether a grade-level literary text is narrated in first- or third-person point of view with prompting.

Students will find examples of literary elements: setting, plot, characters and their traits.

Students will find examples of literary devices: simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia.

Students will use details from the literary or informational text to draw conclusions and make predictions.

Students will locate facts that are clearly stated in an informational text.

Students will describe the structure of an informational text with prompting.

Students will write narratives incorporating characters, plot, and a basic setting.

Students will write facts about a topic and include a main idea with supporting details in a paragraph.

Students will write an opinion about a topic and provide reasons as support in a paragraph.

Students will determine relationships among words, including synonyms, antonyms, and simple multiple-meaning words.

Students will use context clues to determine the meaning of words.

Students will use word parts (e.g., affixes, Anglo-Saxon roots, stems) to define and determine the meaning of new words.

Students will use grade-level resource materials (e.g., simple dictionary, glossary) to clarify the meaning of words.

Students will acquire new grade-level vocabulary, relate new words to prior knowledge, and apply vocabulary in new situations.

Students will use grade-level vocabulary to communicate ideas through speaking and writing.

Students will use language in speaking and writing according to purpose and audience.

Students will recognize simple and compound sentences.

Students will recognize parts of speech in sentences: common, proper, and irregular plural nouns; tenses of verbs; the simple subject and simple predicate of a sentence; descriptive adjectives and articles; prepositions; singular and plural personal pronouns and the nouns they replace; the conjunctions and, or, and but; -ly adverbs.

Students will compose simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences that begin with a capital letter and conclude with an end mark.

Students will use nouns, verbs, and adjectives to add clarity and variety to their writing.

Students will punctuate initials and capitalize holidays, product names, initials, and months and days of the week.

Students will use periods with declarative and imperative sentences, question marks with interrogative sentences, and exclamation points with exclamatory sentences.

Students will use apostrophes to form simple contractions.

Students will use commas in dates.

Students will use a colon to indicate time.

Students will create their own questions to find information on their topic.

Students will identify and use graphic and text features to understand texts.

Students will consult various text reference sources to gather information.

Students will generate a list of topics and questions about an area of interest for research.

Students will organize information found during group or individual research, using graphic organizers or other aids.

Students will organize and share relevant information for various purposes.

Students will explain how ideas and topics are depicted in multimodal content.

Students will use a combination of writing, sound, visual content, and/or movement to communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

Students will select texts for academic and personal purposes and read independently for extended periods of time.

Students will write independently using a combination of emergent and conventional writing with prompting.