Grade Level: 2nd

Content Area: English Language Arts

Standard: 

1. Participate in conversations and discussions with groups and peers utilizing agreed-upon rules.

2. Use visual aids and technology in oral presentations to present key ideas and details about a text or conversation, and add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify thoughts, feelings, and ideas.

3. Read and reread grade-appropriate text accurately, automatically, and with meaningful expression at a rate which supports comprehension.

4. Utilize new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary, making connections to previously learned words and relating new words to background knowledge.

5. Use content knowledge built during read-alouds and independent reading of informational and literary texts by participating in content-specific discussions with peers and/or through writing.

6. Identify the main story elements in a literary text.

7. Read and comprehend literary and informational texts.