2nd Grade learning goals
Reading - 2nd Quarter
Unit 2: Reading Foundational Skills—Decoding Strategies, Fluency, Comprehension
Fluency: Reads with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Unit 2: Reading Foundational Skills—Decoding Strategies, Fluency, Comprehension
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and text.
- Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
- Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
- Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson or moral.
- Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
- Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters; including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
- Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
Fluency: Reads with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Writing - 2nd Quarter
Unit 2: Writing Poetry
Unit 2: Writing Poetry
- Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
- With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.
- Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
- Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
- Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
- With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.
- Describe the overall structure of a grade-appropriate story, including how the beginning introduces the story, middle (identify climax or problem), and the ending concludes the action.
- Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
- Demonstrates correct grammar and usage when writing and speaking.
- Demonstrates correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Math - 2nd Quarter
Represent and Solve Problems: I can use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one and two-step word problems by using drawings and equations.
Fluent Computation to Add and Subtract: I can fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies accurately, efficiently, and with flexibility. I can mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100-900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100-900.
Place Value: I can understand hundreds, tens, and ones. I can compare two and three digit numbers. I can also read and write numbers to 1,000.
Arithmetic Pattern: I can determine whether a group of objects is odd or even, write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends. I can use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns and writing an equation to express the total as a sum of equal addends.
Extend the Counting Sequence: I can count within 1000. I can skip-count by 2’s, 5s, 10s, and 100s.
Represent and Solve Problems: I can use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one and two-step word problems by using drawings and equations.
Fluent Computation to Add and Subtract: I can fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies accurately, efficiently, and with flexibility. I can mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100-900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100-900.
Place Value: I can understand hundreds, tens, and ones. I can compare two and three digit numbers. I can also read and write numbers to 1,000.
Arithmetic Pattern: I can determine whether a group of objects is odd or even, write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends. I can use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns and writing an equation to express the total as a sum of equal addends.
Extend the Counting Sequence: I can count within 1000. I can skip-count by 2’s, 5s, 10s, and 100s.
Science - 2nd Quarter
Developing Investigations: I can plan and conduct an investigation to answer a question within a whole group setting.
Conducting Investigation:
I can measure length, mass, and temperature using standard and non-standard units. I can compare amounts/measurements and make qualitative observations using the five senses and simple tools and equipment’s (e.g. magnifiers/hand lenses, magnets, equal arm balances, thermometers.
Forms of Energy: I can describe different ways to change both the pitch and the volume of a sound.
Types of Forces: I can describe Earth’s gravity as a force that pulls objects on or near the Earth toward the Earth without touching the object. I can measure and compare the force required to overcome friction and move an object over different surfaces. I can identify that magnets attract and repel each other and certain materials.
Newton’s Law of Motion: I can describe and compare the distances traveled by lighter/heavier objects after applying the same and different amount of force (i.e., push or pull) in the same direction.
Mechanical Systems: I can compare and describe the amount of force (i.e., more, less, or same push or pull) needed to raise an object to a given height, with or without the use of inclined planes or different slopes and/or the use of levers. I can apply the use of an inclined plane and/or lever to different real life situation in which objects are raised.
Developing Investigations: I can plan and conduct an investigation to answer a question within a whole group setting.
Conducting Investigation:
I can measure length, mass, and temperature using standard and non-standard units. I can compare amounts/measurements and make qualitative observations using the five senses and simple tools and equipment’s (e.g. magnifiers/hand lenses, magnets, equal arm balances, thermometers.
Forms of Energy: I can describe different ways to change both the pitch and the volume of a sound.
Types of Forces: I can describe Earth’s gravity as a force that pulls objects on or near the Earth toward the Earth without touching the object. I can measure and compare the force required to overcome friction and move an object over different surfaces. I can identify that magnets attract and repel each other and certain materials.
Newton’s Law of Motion: I can describe and compare the distances traveled by lighter/heavier objects after applying the same and different amount of force (i.e., push or pull) in the same direction.
Mechanical Systems: I can compare and describe the amount of force (i.e., more, less, or same push or pull) needed to raise an object to a given height, with or without the use of inclined planes or different slopes and/or the use of levers. I can apply the use of an inclined plane and/or lever to different real life situation in which objects are raised.
Social Studies - 2nd Quarter
Human and Environmental Interactions: I can describe why people of different groups settle more in one place than another and I can determine whether reasons for settlement in a particular area are valid.
Groups Meeting the Needs of Individuals: I can describe how needs are met by families and friends.
Significant Individuals and Events: I can compare and contracts the habitats, resources, art and daily lives of Native Americans peoples, Woodland and Plains Indians.
Human and Environmental Interactions: I can describe why people of different groups settle more in one place than another and I can determine whether reasons for settlement in a particular area are valid.
Groups Meeting the Needs of Individuals: I can describe how needs are met by families and friends.
Significant Individuals and Events: I can compare and contracts the habitats, resources, art and daily lives of Native Americans peoples, Woodland and Plains Indians.
Personal Development - 2nd Quarter
Participation: I always answer questions asked by my teacher. I always wait for the right time to ask a question or make a comment.
Behavior: I always follow directions, line up quickly and quietly, and keep my hands and feet to myself.
Assignments and Work Completion: I always complete my assignments in a reasonable amount of time. I demonstrate responsibility by turning my work in when I’m supposed to.
Working in Groups: I always take turns in group activities and do not interrupt others in the group that are speaking.
Participation: I always answer questions asked by my teacher. I always wait for the right time to ask a question or make a comment.
Behavior: I always follow directions, line up quickly and quietly, and keep my hands and feet to myself.
Assignments and Work Completion: I always complete my assignments in a reasonable amount of time. I demonstrate responsibility by turning my work in when I’m supposed to.
Working in Groups: I always take turns in group activities and do not interrupt others in the group that are speaking.