Reading Foundational Skills

By the end of second grade, the students will…

• • Use decoding skills to read words with…

    • • Long and short vowels

      • Vowel teams

      • Two syllable words

      • Prefixes and suffixes

  • Read grade level sight words and high frequency words.

  • Read quickly, accurately and with expression to understand grade level text.

Literature text

By the end of second grade, the students will…

• • answer questions to show I understand a story.

  • describe how characters respond to other characters and events in a story.

  • identify the beginning, the middle and the end of a story

Informational text

By the end of second grade, the students will…

• • answer questions to show I understand informational text.

  • identify the main idea and details of nonfiction texts.

  • use vocabulary and context clues to understand the meaning of a text.

  • use these text features to gain information:

    • • bold print

      • subheadings

      • glossaries

      • indexes

      • icons

      • captions

  • identify possible reasons why the author wrote the text.

  • use diagrams and other factual images to help with the understanding of nonfiction text.

  • complete a graphic organizer to compare and contrast two different nonfiction texts on the same topic.