Grade 2 • Language Arts What Your Child Will Learn

Grade 2 Language Arts

What Your Child Will Learn

Overview of Being a Reader and Being a Writer

Applies Grade Level Reading Foundational Skills

• Phonics and Word Recognition

• • Recognize and use all sounds related to various consonants and consonant clusters.
  • Recognize and use variant consonant sounds (e.g., kn, wr).
  • Recognize and use letters that represent the wide variety of vowel sounds.
  • Recognize and use prefixes and suffixes.
  • Understand the concept of plurals and plural forms that change spelling.
  • Recognize and use endings that show comparisons (-est, -er).
  • Add, delete, and change letters, letter clusters, and word parts to base words to help in reading or spelling words.
  • Use word parts to determine the meaning of the words.
  • Use the context of the sentence, paragraph, or whole text to help determine the precise meaning of the word.
  • Demonstrate competent, active word solving while reading at a good pace.
• Fluency
  • Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Demonstrates Reading Comprehension

• Students who demonstrate comprehension of literature will:
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in text.
  • Retell stories including key details and demonstrate understanding of the message.
  • Describe characters, settings, and major events in the story.
  • Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
  • Describe the overall structure of a story.
  • Acknowledge differences in points of view of characters.
  • Compare and contrast two more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures.
• Students who demonstrate comprehension of informational text will:
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in text.
  • Identify the main topics of multi-paragraph text.
  • Describe how reasons support the specific points an author makes in a text.
  • Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
  • Evaluate a text based on the personal, world, or text knowledge.

Writes for Different Purposes and Audiences

• Writing opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide a concluding statement.
• Writing informative texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
• Writing narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, including details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use time order words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

Demonstrates Listening and Speaking Skills to Productively Participate in Conversations

• Comprehension and Collaboration
  • Participate in collaborative conversations.
  • Recount or describe key ideas or details from text read aloud, or information presented orally, or through other media.
  • Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify something that is not understood, gather information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
• Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
  • Present knowledge and Ideas through speaking.
  • Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details.

Applies Grade Level Knowledge of Language and Its Conventions When Writing or Speaking

• Conventions of Standard English
  
  • Capitalize holidays, product names, and geographic names.
  • Use commas in greetings and closings of letters.
  • Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.
  • Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., b_o_y_ _b_o_i_l_).
  • Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed, to check and correct spellings.
• Acquire and Use Vocabulary

• • Recognize and use synonyms and antonyms.
  • Recognize and use homophones and homographs.
  • Build vocabulary by increasing level of word and concept based knowledge (important words, useful words, multiple meaning, and challenging words).