Second Grade

Language Arts/English Standards

1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development

1.1	Students can use spelling patterns to read.
1.2	Students can use knowledge of basic syllabication when reading.
1.3	Students can chunk syllables when they read words they don't know.
1.4	Students can recognize and read common abbreviations.
1.5	Students can identify and read regular and irregular plurals.
1.7	Students understand and explain common synonyms and antonyms (words that mean the opposite).
1.8	Students can break down a compound word to figure out its meaning.
1.9	Students know the function and position of simple suffixes and prefixes.
1.10	Students understand that many words may have more than one meaning.

2.0 Reading Comprehension

2.1	Students can use titles, tables of contents, and chapter headings to locate information in expository text.
2.3	Students can use their knowledge of the author's purpose to understand information in the text.
2.4	Students can ask questions about what they are reading to help them understand.
2.5	Students can retell the facts and details of what they read so they can clarify and understand.
2.6	Students can recognize cause-and-effect relationships in what they read.
2.7	Students can interpret information from diagrams, charts, and graphs.

3.0 Literary Response and Analysis

3.1	Students can compare and contrast elements of stories by different authors.
3.2	Students can create alternative endings to stories and identify the reasons and impacts that those new endings would have on the story.
3.3	Students can compare and contrast different cultural versions of the same story.
3.4	Students can identify the use of rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration in poetry.

1.0 Writing Strategies

1.1	Students can group main ideas and maintain their focus in their writing.
1.3	Students understand the purposes of various reference materials. (e.g. dictionary, thesaurus, atlas)
1.4	Students can revise their rough drafts to improve sequence and provide more description detail in their second drafts.

1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions

1.1	Students know how to distinguish between a complete and incomplete sentence.
1.3	Students can identify and use correct parts of speech in their writing and speaking.
1.4	Students can use commas correctly in the opening and closing of a letter, in dates, and in a series.
1.5	Students use quotation marks correctly in their writing to identify talking.
1.6	Students use capitalization for all proper nouns, words at the beginnings of sentences, greetings, months and days of a week, titles, and initials of people.
1.7	Students spell frequently used and irregular words correctly. (e.g. was, were, says, said, who, what, why)
1.8	Students spell basic spelling patterns correctly.

Mathematics Standards

Number Sense

1.1	Students can count, read, and write numbers from 100 to 1000 and tell the place value of the digits.
1.3	Students can order numbers to 100 and compare them using <, >, and = signs.
2.1	Students know that fact families use the same three numbers in addition and subtraction and they can use fact families to solve problems and check their answers.
2.2	Students can find the sum and difference of up to two numbers in the 100's.
2.3	Students can solve oral problems daily.
3.1	Students can use repeated addition to do multiplication.
3.2	Students can use repeated subtraction to do division.
3.3	Students know the multiplication tables of 2's, 5's, and 10's.
4.1	Students can name and compare fractions from 1/12 to 1/2.
4.2	Students can identify fractions of a whole and identify parts of a group.
4.3	Students know when all parts of the group are included, the group is whole and equal to one.
5.1	Students can add and subtract money.
5.2	Students know and use symbols to label money.
6.1	Students can tell an estimate measurement, like the closest inch.

Algebra

1.1	Students can add the numbers in any order and get the correct answer and check their answers.
1.2	Students can tell a number sentence for a simple story using addition and subtraction.
1.3	Students can solve addition and subtraction problems by using information in charts, picture graphs, and number sentences.

Measurement/Geometry

1.1	Students can measure the length of objects by moving standard or non-standard units along the object.
1.2	Students can use different units to measure objects, and can predict that a measurement will be greater or smaller when using a different unit of measure.
1.3	Students can measure to the nearest inch or centimeter.
1.4	Students can tell time to the nearest quarter hour and know relationships of time. (e.g. minutes in an hour, days in a month, and weeks in a year)
1.5	Students can determine the duration of intervals of time in hours. (e.g. 11:00 am to 4:00 pm)
2.1	Students can describe the parts of plane and solid objects.
2.2	Students can put shapes together to make another shape.

Statistics/Data Analysis/Probability/Statistics

1.1	Students can record numerical data in systematic ways, in order to keep track of what has been counted.
1.2	Students represent the same data set in more than one way. (e.g. bar graphs and tally charts)
1.3	Students can identify features of data sets. (range and mode)
1.4	Students can ask and answer simple questions related to data representations.
2.1	Students can recognize, describe, and extend patterns and determine a next term in linear patterns.
2.2	Students can solve problems involving simple number patterns.

Mathematical Reasoning

1.1	Students can determine the approach, materials, and strategies to be used to solve a problem.
1.2	Students can use tools, such as manipulatives or sketches, to model problems.
2.1	Students can defend the reasoning used and justify the procedures selected.
2.2	Students can make precise calculations and check the validity of the results in the context.