2nd Grade Year at a Glance 

• 2nd Grade Year at a Glance

(Skills and times are subject to change)

1st Nine Weeks Reading

• Ask/answer questions

• Retell stories, determine central message, moral or lesson

• Describe story structure:beginning/end

• Read/comprehend grade level material (literature, informational)

  • Fluently and accurately

• Identify main idea

• Describe connections between events and ideas in text

• Determine word meanings

• Use text/graphic features 

• Identify main purpose of the text

• Apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills to decode words 

Language Arts & Writing Skills  (Same all year)

• Command conventions of standard English grammar 

• Command capitalization, punctuation, and spelling

• Write legibly  

• Demonstrate competency in grade 2 writing process

• Write opinion, informative, and narrative 

1st Nine Weeks Mathematics

• Fluently add and subtract within 20 (from memory)

• Understand place value (1’s, 10’s, 100’s)

• Count within 1000 by 1’s, 5’s, 10’s, 100’s

• Read and write numerals to 1000 

• Compare two 3-digit numbers using (<,>, =)

• Measure length using appropriate tools 

• Uses 2 measuring tools of different lengths to measure the length of an object

• Estimate lengths of objects

• Measure and compare the length of two or more objects

2nd Nine Weeks Reading 

(the aforementioned skills coupled with these skills)

• Describe how characters respond to events and challenges

• Compare/contrast two or more versions of the same story

• Compare/contrast same topic points presented by two texts

2nd Nine Weeks Mathematics

(the aforementioned skills coupled with these skills)

• Use addition/subtraction to solve word problems within 100

3rd Nine Weeks Reading 

(the aforementioned skills)

3rd Nine Weeks Mathematics

(the aforementioned skills coupled with these skills)

• Explain why addition/subtraction strategies work

• Determine if a group of objects (up to 20) has an even/odd number of members

• Determine the total number of objects in a rectangular array

• Fluently add/subtract within 100

• Add/subtract within 1,000

• Use addition/subtraction to solve length word problems 

• Represent whole numbers as lengths on a number line diagram

• Demonstrate an understanding of equal  shares 

4th Nine Weeks Reading 

(the aforementioned skills)

4th Nine Weeks Mathematics

(the aforementioned skills coupled with these skills)

• Add up to four 2-digit numbers

• Tell time to the nearest five minutes using AM/PM (analog/digital)

• Solve word problems with money (dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies)

• Represent & interpret data with line plots, picture graphs, and bar graphs

• Identify and draw figures having specific attributes

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