Second Grade

Trimester 2 Standards

Reading Literature and Informational Text

CCSD 21 offers programs that provide instruction in English, Spanish & Russian.  These standards apply to all languages of instruction.

PowerStandards

Ask and answer questions (who, what, where, when why, and how) to determine understanding of key details in a text referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. (RL 2.1, 2.7 & SL 2.3)

Recount/retell the main idea, central message lesson or moral by providing text evidence from fiction texts. (RL 2.2 & SL 2.4)

Know and use various text features to efficiently locate key facts or information in a text in order to identify the main purpose and understanding of the text. (RL & RI 2.5, 2.6)

Year Long Standards

• Use reading strategies (ask questions, make connections, make inferences, visualize, or reread text) to find more information or clarify ideas in order to help understand more difficult, complex text.
• Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions about texts in a variety of genres before, during and after reading.
• Define topic or main idea (who or what the text is mostly about).
• Read stories with more than one paragraph and explain the topic or main idea of each paragraph.
• Show different points of view by changing one’s voice when reading dialogue for each character aloud.
• Understand the main purpose of a text and explain what the author of a text wants to inform, explain, or describe.

Tri 2 Standards

• Define the topic or main idea (who or what the text is mostly about).
• Understand the main purpose of text and explain what the author of a text wants to inform, explain, or describe. (Tri 2 focus on inform, explain, describe).
• Identify specific points the author makes in a text and describe the reasons the author uses to support each point.
• Identify and explain how historical events, scientific concepts and/or steps in a scientific process are connected in a text.
• Identify and use text features (captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, menus, and graphics) to locate key information in texts.
• Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.

Speaking and Listening

CCSD 21 offers programs that provide instruction in English, Spanish & Russian.  These standards apply to all languages of instruction.

PowerStandards

Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners with peers and adults in small and large groups. (SL 2.1, 2.2, 2.3)

Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts/details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences. (SL 2.4, 2.5, 2.6)

Year Long Standards

• Recognize and speak in complete sentences when asked to provide details or clarification.
• Answer questions using information recalled or gathered.
• Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topic, speaking at an appropriate time).
• Link one’s ideas to other speakers’ ideas.
• Create audio recordings to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

Tri 2 Standards

• Identify, describe, and retell key ideas and details.
• Make connections between the comments of others by contributing one’s thoughts and ideas to create meaningful conversation.
• Identify and follow agreed upon rules for discussion.
• Ask and answer questions about a presentation.

Writing

CCSD 21 offers programs that provide instruction in English, Spanish & Russian.  These standards apply to all languages of instruction.

PowerStandards

Write explanatory texts about authentic topics clearly introducing the topic, providing appropriate facts and details, and a conclusion. (W 2.2 & L 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, & 2.5)

Year Long Standards

• Write routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
• Recognize that a good piece of writing requires more than one draft and requires editing and revision based on self-assessment and reflection, in conference with a teacher and peers.
• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies:
  • Determine the meaning of a word or phrase by looking for clues in a sentence.
  • Determine how the meaning of a word changes when a prefix is added, such as happy/unhappy.
  • Use knowledge of a root word to see how the meaning of similar words are related (for example, addition and additional).
  • Predict the meaning of compound words by looking for words known within them.
• Make a real-life connection (text to self) to words heard or read.
• Recognize and describe verbs and adjectives that have similar meanings and choose the one that best fits the action or description.
• Understand the differences between speaking or writing using informal English and formal English when appropriate.
• Identify misspelled words and use a dictionary to assist in spelling correctly.
• Learn and use vocabulary terms that have to do with a topic one is learning about.
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. (See each trimester for specific critical content).

Tri 2 Standards

• Write an information text:
  • Generate ideas and select a topic.
  • Write a topic sentence to introduce the topic.
  • Write facts and definitions to support the topic.
  • Use transition words to show the order of the facts (first, second, third).
  • Use a concluding statement.

• Work with classmates to research a topic and write about it.
• Recognize that a good piece of writing requires more than one draft and requires editing and revision based on self-assessment and reflection, in conference with a teacher and peers.
• Cite sources used.
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. (See each trimester for specific critical content)

English Reading Foundations

PowerStandards

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words in order to read and comprehend grade-level texts with purpose and understanding. (RF 2.3 & 2.4)

Year Long Standards

• Read second-grade text fluently (easy, smooth, and automatic) and with expression to show comprehension.
• Self-correct misunderstood words using context clues and reread with corrections when necessary.
• Read irregularly spelled words without having to sound them out (High-Frequency Words)
• Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words

Tri 2 Standards

• Identify and decode words with common prefixes and suffixes by breaking them into units of meaning (e.g., inflected endings: es, ing, ed).
• Determine or clarify the meaning of  unknown words and multiple -meaning words…
• Use knowledge of the meaning of an unknown word to predict the meaning of compound words.
• Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (e.g. toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (e.g. thin, slender, skinny, scrawny) 
• Recognize and use possessives that end with an apostrophe and s to singular nouns (including proper nouns) to show ownership
• Recognize and use contractions
• Self-correct misunderstood words using context clues and reread with corrections when necessary.
• Hear, identify, and know the meaning of words with similar patterns with the same sounds but different spellings.   (blue/blew, hear, here)
• Recognize and use common abbreviations and understand the full form of the words they shorten

Spanish Reading Foundations

PowerStandards

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words in order to read and comprehend grade-level texts with purpose and understanding. (RF 2.3 & 2.4)

Year Long Standards

• RF.2.3. Conocen y aplican la fonética y las destrezas de análisis de palabras a nivel de grado, en la decodificación de palabras.
• RF 2.4. Leen con suficiente precisión y fluidez para apoyar la comprensión.

Tri 2 Standards

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words in order to read and comprehend grade-level texts with purpose and understanding. (RF 2.3 & 2.4)

RF.2.3. Conocen y aplican la fonética y las destrezas de análisis de palabras a nivel de grado, en la decodificación de palabras.

• Decodifican palabras con prefijos y sufijos de uso frecuente
• Identifican la última, penúltima y antepenúltima sílaba en palabras multisilábicas y reconocen en cuál sílaba cae el acento tónico. 
• Reconocen y usan acento escrito para indicar que hay hiato y no diptongo, en palabras conocidas (María, baúl, maíz).

RF 2.4. Leen con suficiente precisión y fluidez para apoyar la comprensión. 

• Leen textos a nivel adecuado con propósito y comprensión. 
• Leen oralmente textos a nivel de grado con precisión, ritmo adecuado y expresión en lecturas sucesivas. 
• Usan el contexto para confirmar o autocorregir el reconocimiento de las palabras y la comprensión, releyendo cuando sea necesario.

Russian Reading Foundations

PowerStandards

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words in order to read and comprehend grade-level texts with purpose and understanding. (RF 2.3 & 2.4)

Year Long Standards

• Read second grade text fluently (easy, smooth and automatic) and with expression to show comprehension.
• Self-correct misunderstood words using context clues and reread with corrections when necessary.
• Read irregularly spelled words without having to sound them out (High Frequency Words)
• Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words

Tri 2 Standards

• Identify and decode words with common prefixes and suffixes by breaking them into units of meaning
• находить корень в группе однокоренных слов;
• подбирать однокоренные слова;
• отличать приставки от предлогов (по, на, под и т.д.)