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)
- 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