By the End of Second Grade Students Should Be Able To

BENTWORTH SCHOOL DISTRICT

By the end of second grade students should be able to:

Foundational Skills

1. Phonics

●Read one syllable and multisyllabic words with prefixes and suffixes

●Read r-controlled vowels, triple consonant, vowel teams in words

●Read vowel teams, schwa sound, silent letter and hard and soft C and G

2. Word Recognition

●Read Wilson Fundations trick words in context

●Recognize and define vocabulary words

3. Fluency

●Read grade level text with appropriate speed, accuracy, and expression

Text Comprehension

1. Demonstrate an understanding of informational text

●Write and identify main idea and supporting details

●Compare and contrast texts of the same topics

●Use text evidence to describe a series of events or steps within a text

●Explain how specific images and text features contribute to understanding a text

●Determine the meaning of words and phrases including multiple meaning words

●Ask and answer questions such as who, what, when, where, why, and how

●Comprehend nonfiction stories independently

2. Demonstrate an understanding of literature

●Write and identify the story elements (characters, setting, and plot)

●Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story

●Identify the central message, lesson, or moral of a story

●Use information from illustrations and words in print to demonstrate understanding

●Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song

●Determine the point of view of a story

●Determine the meaning of words and phrases including multiple meaning words

●Ask and answer questions such as who, what, when, where, why, and how

●Comprehend fictional stories independently

Composition

1. Write clear and focused text

●Cursive and print handwriting is legible and age appropriate

●Write informative texts, narratives and opinion pieces

○Write by grouping information and provide a clear beginning middle and conclusion

2. Demonstrate appropriate use of English grammar

●Demonstrate rules of writing (capitalization and punctuation)

●Identify parts of speech: nouns (abstract, irregular, and irregular), pronouns, verbs (regular and irregular), adjectives (comparative and superlative), and adverbs (comparative and superlative)

●Correctly write titles of books, addresses, contractions, abbreviations, possessives

●Write, read, and interpret dialogue

●Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions

●Write and identify subject-verb agreement

3. Use conventional spelling for words with common and uncommon patterns

●Use conventional spelling for trick words with uncommon patterns

●Use conventional spelling for common patterns

○Wilson Fundations Units 1-17