Reading

I can show what I have learned about letters and sounds by figuring out words.

I can read long and short vowels correctly in words.

I can spell and read vowel teams.

I can read longer words with long vowel sounds.

I can read words with prefixes and suffixes.

I can find words that don't follow normal spelling rules, but are common.

I can read second grade words that aren't spelled the way they sound.

I can read and understand books at my level well.

I can stop when I am reading and fix words that I mess up or don't sound right.

I can ask and answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions to show that I understand stories.

I can remember and tell different kinds of stories and share what the author is trying to teach.

I can describe how characters in a story react to important events in the story.

I can tell how words in stories, poems or songs can give them rhythm and help people understand them better.

I can describe how a story is written including the important parts of a beginning and an ending.

I can show that I know the characters in a story by telling about them or by using different character voices when I read aloud.

I can use what I learn from pictures and words to show that I understand the characters, setting and events of a story.

I can tell how two or more tellings of a story can be the same and different.

I can read and understand second grade stories and poems by myself.

I can ask and answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions to show that I understand nonfiction.

I can tell the main idea of a piece of nonfiction, including the focus of important paragraphs.

I can make connections between different events in history.

I can make connections between different science ideas.

I can make connections between the different steps in a set of directions.

I can figure out the meanings of words when I am studying a second grade topic.

I can understand and use all the helpful parts of nonfiction books to find important facts and details quickly.

I can tell the author's main purpose in nonfiction writing.

I can use diagrams and pictures to help me understand nonfiction.

I can describe how reasons suppport the points that an author is trying to make.

I can tell how the important points in two pieces of nonfiction about the same topic are the same and different.

I can read and understand second grade nonfiction by myself.

Writing

I can write my opinion about a topic and give reasons for my thinking.

I can write to teach about a topic by giving facts and definitions about the topic.

I can write to tell an organized story with details about events, thoughts and feelings.

I can listen to others' ideas to revise and edit my writing and make it better.

I can help my class explore books and write about what we learn.

I can work with friends to make and record notes about science experiments.

I can use what I have learned to answer questions or I can find out the answers somewhere else.