2nd Grade Academic Expectations
Language Arts/ Reading
- ●Answer who/what/when/ where/ why/how questions
- ●Recount fables and folktales
- ●Recognize the lesson or moral of a story
- ●Recognize rhythm and alliteration
- ●Understand plot, structure, points of view, and cause and effect in a story
- ●Compare multiple versions of a story
- ●Distinguish long and short vowels, common prefixes and suffixes, and irregular spellings of words
- ●Write complete sentences
- ●Read for fluency and comprehension
Mathematics
- ●Extend understanding of base-ten notation
- ●Understand and use place value
- ●Build fluency with addition and subtraction
- ●Represent and solve multi-step story problems involving addition and subtraction.
- ●Use standard units of measurement
- ●Describe and analyze shapes
- ●Partition shapes into halves, thirds and fourths.
- ●Can tell and write the time of an analog clock to the nearest 5 minutes
- ●Solve word problems involving pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar bills
- ●Represent and interpret data.
Writing
- ●Informative- Can write about a specific topic, giving facts, definitions and details in their own words.
- ●Narrative- Provides a complex sequence of more than 3 events, using details and transitional words to signal event order and adds a well-developed sense of closure related to the topic sentence.
- ●Opinion- Introduces a clear topic, opinion is complex and clear, supplies 2-3reasons that are supported with facts and details, uses linking words or phrases to connect reasons, has a well developed closing statement.
Science
- Understand the relationship between sound and vibrating objects.Understand properties of solids and
- liquids and the changes they undergo.
- Understand patterns of weather and factors that affect weather that occur from day to day.
- Understand animal life cycles.
- Identify characteristics of various environments and the resources they provide to help
people survive.
Social Studies
* Understand how various sources provide information about the past such as time lines, historical people,
historical documents, and historical pictures
- Use geographic representations, terms and technology to process information from a spatial perspective.
- Interpret maps that contain symbols, legends, and cardinal directions.
- Understand the effects of humans interacting with their environment.
- Understand basic economic concepts. Consumer, producer, supply and demand, saving,
- spending, borrowing, giving.
- Understand the purpose of governments.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of citizens.
- Understand how various cultures influence communities.