SECOND GRADE
(minimum standards)

 

Reading

2.1.01 Develop oral language.

    1. Show evidence of expanding oral language through vocabulary growth.
    2. Continue to implement rules for conversation.
    3. Understand, follow, and give oral directions.
    4. Participate in group discussion.
    5. Participate in creative responses to text (e.g., choral reading, discussion, and dramatization).
    6. Respond to questions from teachers and other group members.
    7. Narrate a personal story.
    8. Summarize lesson content.

2.1.02 Develop listening skills.

    1. Listen attentively to speaker for specific information.
    2. Use appropriate listening skills (e.g., does not interrupt, faces speaker, asks questions).
    3. Listens and responds to a variety of media (e.g., books, audio tapes, videos).
    4. Recognize the difference between formal and informal languages.
    5. Follow oral directions.

2.1.03 Demonstrate knowledge of concepts of print.

    1. Read and explain own writings.
    2. Recognize that groups of sentences make a paragraph and paragraphs make a story.
    3. Recognize and use parts of a book (e.g., title, author, illustrator, table of contents and glossary).
    4. Understand punctuation (e.g., period, question mark, exclamation mark).

2.1.04 Develop and maintain phonemic awareness.

    1. Develop awareness of sounds of language through repeated exposure to a variety of auditory experiences (e.g., poetry, books on tape, music lyrics, sound effects, and read-alouds).
    2. Add, delete, and change targeted sounds to modify or change words.
    3. Identify and produce rhyming words.

2.1.05 Develop and use decoding strategies.

    1. Use knowledge of letter-sound correspondence and structural analysis to decode words.
    2. Use decoding strategies, such as sounding out words, comparing similar words, breaking words into smaller words, and looking for word parts (e.g., compound words, word families, blends, and digraphs).
    3. Use known words to decode unknown words.
    4. Apply knowledge of basic syllabication rules.

2.1.06 Read to develop fluency, expression, accuracy and confidence.

    1. Read orally to develop fluency, expression, accuracy, and confidence.
    2. Reflect punctuation within written text while reading orally.