Grade-Level Indicators
READING/WRITING
Grade Two
Phonemic Awareness, Word Recognition
and Fluency Standard
Acquisition of Vocabulary Standard
Reading Process:Concepts of Print,
Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies Standard
Informational, Technical, and Persuasive
Text Standard
Literary Text Standard
Writing Process
Writing Applications
Writing Conventions
Research
Communication: Oral and Visual
Phonemic Awareness, Word
Recognition and Fluency
| Students in the primary grades learn to recognize
and decode printed words, developing the skills that are the foundations for
independent reading. They discover the alphabetic principle (sound-symbol
match) and learn to use it in figuring out new words. They build a stock of
sight words that helps them to read quickly and accurately with comprehension.
By the end of the third grade, they demonstrate fluent oral reading, varying
their intonation and timing as appropriate for the text. |
| Benchmark A. Use letter-sound correspondence
knowledge and structural analysis to decode words. 1. Identify rhyming words with the same or different spelling patterns. 3. Blend phonemes (sounds) of letters and syllables to read unknown words with one or more syllables. 4. Use knowledge of common word families (e.g., -ite or -ate) to sound out unfamiliar words. 5. Segment letter, letter blends and syllable sounds in words. 6. Distinguish and identify the beginning, middle and ending sounds in words. 7. Identify words as having either short- or long-vowel sounds. Benchmark B. Demonstrate fluent oral reading, using sight words and decoding skills, varying intonation and timing as appropriate for text. 2. Read regularly spelled multi-syllable words by sight. 8. Demonstrate a growing stock of sight words. 9. Read text using fluid and automatic decoding skills. 10. Read passages fluently with appropriate changes in voice, timing and expression. |
| Students acquire vocabulary through exposure
to language-rich situations, such as reading books and other texts and conversing
with adults and peers. They use context clues, as well as direct explanations
provided by others, to gain new words. They learn to apply word analysis skills
to build and extend their own vocabulary. As students progress through the
grades, they become more proficient in applying their knowledge of words (origins,
parts, relationships, meanings) to acquire specialized vocabulary that aids
comprehension. |
| Benchmark A. Use context clues to determine
the meaning of new vocabulary. 1. Use knowledge of word order and in-sentence context clues to support word identification and to define unknown words while reading. Benchmark B. Read accurately high- frequency sight words. 4. Read accurately high-frequency sight words. Benchmark C. Apply structural analysis skills to build and extend vocabulary and to determine word meaning. 6. Determine the meaning of common compound words (e.g., lunchroom, baseball) by explaining the relationship between the words contained in the compound. 7. Identify contractions and common abbreviations and connect them to whole words. 8. Determine the meaning of prefixes, including un-, re-, pre- and suffixes, including -er, -est, -ful, -less. 9. Use root words (e.g., smile) and their various inflections (e.g., smiles, smiling, smiled) to determine the meaning of words. Benchmark D. Know the meaning of specialized vocabulary by applying knowledge of word parts, relationships and meanings. 2. Identify words that have similar meanings (synonyms) and words that have opposite meanings (antonyms). 3. Classify words into categories (e.g., colors, fruits, vegetables). 5. Read homographs aloud correctly, adjusting sounds to fit meaning, and use words in context. 10. Determine the meaning and pronunciations of unknown words using a beginner’s dictionary, glossaries and technology. Benchmark E. Use resources to determine the meanings and pronunciations of unknown words. |
Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies
| Students develop and learn to apply strategies
that help them to comprehend and interpret informational and literary texts.
Reading and learning to read are problem solving processes that require
strategies for the reader to make sense of written language and remain engaged
with texts. Beginners develop basic concepts about print (e.g., that print
holds meaning) and how books work (e.g., text organization). As strategic
readers, students learn to analyze and evaluate texts to demonstrate their
understanding of text. Additionally, students learn to self-monitor their
own comprehension by asking and answering questions about the text, self-correcting
errors and assessing their own understanding. They apply these strategies
effectively to assigned and self-selected texts read in and out of the classroom. |
| Benchmark A. Establish a purpose for reading
and use a range of reading comprehension strategies to understand literary
passages and text. 1. Establish a purpose for reading (e.g., to be informed, to follow directions or to be entertained). 5. Create and use graphic organizers, such as Venn diagrams and webs, to demonstrate comprehension. 6. Answer literal, inferential and evaluative questions to demonstrate comprehension of grade-appropriate print texts and electronic and visual media. Benchmark B. Make predictions from text clues and cite specific examples to support predictions. 2. Predict content, events and outcomes from illustrations and prior experience and support those predictions with examples from the text or background knowledge. Benchmark C. Draw conclusions from information in text. 4. Summarize text by recalling main ideas and some supporting details. Benchmark D. Apply reading skills and strategies to summarize and compare and contrast information in text, between text and across subject areas. 3. Compare and contrast information in texts with prior knowledge and experience. 4. Summarize text by recalling main ideas and some supporting details. Benchmark E. Demonstrate comprehension by responding to questions (e.g., literal, informational and evaluative). 8. Monitor reading comprehension by identifying word errors and self-correcting. Benchmark F. Apply and adjust self-monitoring strategies to assess understanding of text. 7. Monitor comprehension by recognizing when text does not make sense and look back or read on to reinforce comprehension. 8. Monitor reading comprehension by identifying word errors and self-correcting. 9. Use criteria to choose independent reading materials (e.g., personal interest, knowledge of authors and genres or recommendations from others). 10. Independently read books for various purposes (e.g., for enjoyment, for literary experience, to gain information or to perform a task). |
Reading Applications: Informational, Technical and Persuasive Text
| Students gain information from reading for purposes
of learning about a subject, doing a job, making decisions and accomplishing
a task. Students need to apply the reading process to various types of informational
texts, including essays, magazines, newspapers, textbooks, instruction manuals,
consumer and workplace documents, reference materials, multimedia and electronic
resources. They learn to attend to text features, such as titles, subtitles
and visual aids, to make predictions and build text knowledge. They learn
to read diagrams, charts, graphs, maps and displays in text as sources of
additional information. Students use their knowledge of text structure to
organize content information, analyze it and draw inferences from it. Strategic
readers learn to recognize arguments, bias, stereotyping and propaganda
in informational text sources. |
| Benchmark A. Use text features and structures
to organize content, draw conclusions and build text knowledge. 1. Use the table of contents, glossary, captions and illustrations to identify information and to comprehend text. Benchmark B. Ask clarifying questions concerning essential elements of informational text. 3. List questions about essential elements from informational text (e.g., why, who, where, what, when and how) and identify answers. Benchmark C. Identify the central ideas and supporting details of informational text. 2. Arrange events from informational text in sequential order. 4. Classify ideas from informational texts as main ideas or supporting details. Benchmark D. Use visual aids as sources to gain additional information from text. 5. Identify information in diagrams, charts, graphs and maps. Benchmark E. Evaluate two- and three-step directions for proper sequencing and completeness. 6. Analyze a set of directions for proper sequencing. |
Reading Applications: Literary Text
| Students enhance their understanding of the
human story by reading literary texts that represent a variety of authors,
cultures and eras. They learn to apply the reading process to the various
genres of literature, including fables, folk tales, short stories, novels,
poetry and drama. They demonstrate their comprehension by describing and discussing
the elements of literature (e.g., setting, character and plot), analyzing
the author’s use of language (e.g., word choice and figurative language),
comparing and contrasting texts, inferring theme and meaning and responding
to text in critical and creative ways. Strategic readers learn to explain,
analyze and critique literary text to achieve deep understanding. |
| Benchmark A. Compare and contrast plot across
literary works. 1. Compare and contrast different versions of the same story. 3. Retell the plot of a story. Benchmark B. Use supporting details to identify and describe main ideas, characters and setting. 2. Describe characters and setting. Benchmark C. Recognize the defining characteristics and features of different types of literary forms and genres. 4. Distinguish between stories, poems, plays, fairy tales and fables. Benchmark D. Explain how an author’s word choice and use of methods influences the reader. 5. Identify words from texts that appeal to the senses. Benchmark E. Identify the theme of a literary text. 6. Identify the theme of a text. |
| Students’ writing develops when they regularly
engage in the major phases of the writing process. The writing process includes
the phases of prewriting, drafting, revising and editing and publishing. They
learn to plan their writing for different purposes and audiences. They learn
to apply their writing skills in increasingly sophisticated ways to create
and produce compositions that reflect effective word and grammatical choices.
Students develop revision strategies to improve the content, organization
and language of their writing. Students also develop editing skills to improve
writing conventions. |
| Benchmark A. Generate ideas for written compositions. 1. Generate writing ideas through discussions with others. 2. Develop a main idea for writing. Benchmark B. Develop audience and purpose for self-selected and assigned writing tasks. 3. Develop a purpose and audience for writing. Benchmark C. Use organizers to clarify ideas for writing assignments. 4. Use organizational strategies (e.g., brainstorming, lists, webs and Venn diagrams) to plan writing. Benchmark D. Use revision strategies and resources to improve ideas and content, organization, word choice and detail. 5. Organize writing with a developed beginning, middle and end. 7. Include transitional words and phrases. 8. Use language for writing that is different from oral language, mimicking writing style of books when appropriate. 10. Reread and assess writing for clarity, using a variety of methods (e.g., writer’s circle or author’s chair). 11. Add descriptive words and details and delete extraneous information. 12. Use resources (e.g., word wall, beginner’s dictionary and word bank) to select effective vocabulary. Benchmark E. Edit to improve sentence fluency, grammar and usage. 6. Use a range of complete sentences, including declarative, interrogative and exclamatory. 13. Proofread writing to improve conventions (e.g., grammar, spelling, punctuation and capitalization). Benchmark F. Apply tools to judge the quality of writing. 14. Apply tools (e.g., rubric, checklist and feedback) to judge the quality of writing. Benchmark G. Publish writing samples for display or sharing with others, using techniques such as electronic resources and graphics. 9. Use available technology to compose text. 15. Rewrite and illustrate writing samples for display and for sharing with others. |
| Students need to understand that various types
of writing require different language, formatting and special vocabulary.
Writing serves many purposes across the curriculum and takes various forms.
Beginning writers learn about the various purposes of writing; they attempt
and use a small range of familiar forms (e.g., letters). Developing writers
are able to select text forms to suit purpose and audience. They can explain
why some text forms are more suited to a purpose than others and begin to
use content-specific vocabulary to achieve their communication goals. Proficient
writers control effectively the language and structural features of a large
repertoire of text forms. They deliberately choose vocabulary to enhance text
and structure in their writing according to audience and purpose. |
| Benchmark A. Compose writings that convey
a clear message and include well-chosen details. 1. Write stories that convey a clear message, include details, use vivid language and move through a logical sequence of steps and events. 4. Produce informal writings (e.g., messages, journals, notes and poems) for various purposes. Benchmark B. Write responses to literature that demonstrate an understanding of a literary work. 2. Write responses to stories by comparing text to other texts, or to people or events in their own lives. Benchmark C. Write friendly letters and invitations complete with date, salutation, body, closing and signature. 3. Write letters or invitations that include relevant information and follow letter format (e.g., date, proper salutation, body, closing and signature). |
| Students learn to master writing conventions
through exposure to good models and opportunities for practice. Writing conventions
include spelling, punctuation, grammar and other conventions associated with
forms of written text. They learn the purposes of punctuation: to clarify
sentence meaning and help readers know how writing might sound aloud. They
develop and extend their understanding of the spelling system, using a range
of strategies for spelling words correctly and using newly learned vocabulary
in their writing. They grow more skillful at using the grammatical structures
of English to effectively communicate ideas in writing and to express themselves. |
| Benchmark A. Print legibly using appropriate
spacing. 1. Print legibly, and space letters, words and sentences appropriately. Benchmark B. Spell grade-appropriate words correctly. 2. Spell words with consonant blends and digraphs. 3. Spell regularly used and high-frequency words correctly. 4. Spell words studied (e.g., word lists, text words) correctly. 5. Spell plurals and verb tenses correctly. 6. Begin to use spelling patterns and rules correctly (e.g., dropping silent e before adding -ing). 7. Use spelling strategies (e.g., word wall, word lists, thinking about the base word and affixes). Benchmark C. Use conventions of punctuation and capitalization in written work. 8. Use periods, question marks and exclamation points as endpoints correctly. 9. Use quotation marks. 10. Use correct punctuation for contractions and abbreviations. 11. Use correct capitalization (e.g., proper nouns, the first word in a sentence, months and days). Benchmark D. Use grammatical structures in written work. 12. Use nouns, verbs and adjectives correctly. 13. Use subjects and verbs that are in agreement. 14. Use personal pronouns. 15. Use past and present verb tenses (e.g., “we were” rather than “we was”). 16. Use nouns and pronouns that are in agreement. |
| Students define and investigate self-selected
or assigned issues, topics and problems. They locate, select and make use
of relevant information from a variety of media, reference and technological
sources. Students use an appropriate form to communicate their findings. |
| Benchmark A. Generate questions for investigation
and gather information from a variety of sources. 1. Create questions for investigations, assigned topic or personal area of interest. 2. Utilize appropriate searching techniques to gather information from a variety of locations (e.g., classroom, school library, public library or community resources). 3. Acquire information, with teacher assistance, from multiple sources (e.g., books, magazines, videotapes, CD-ROMs, Web sites) and collect data (e.g., interviews, experiments, observations or surveys) about the topic. Benchmark B. Retell important details and findings. 4. Identify important information and write brief notes about the information. 5. Sort relevant information about the topic into categories with teacher assistance. 6. Report important findings to others. |
Communication: Oral and Visual
| Students learn to communicate effectively through
exposure to good models and opportunities for practice. By speaking, listening
and providing and interpreting visual images, they learn to apply their communication
skills in increasingly sophisticated ways. Students learn to deliver presentations
that effectively convey information and persuade or entertain audiences.
Proficient speakers control language and deliberately choose vocabulary to
clarify points and adjust presentations according to audience and purpose. |
| Benchmark A. Use active listening strategies
to identify the main idea and to gain information from oral presentations. 1. Use active listening strategies, such as making eye contact and asking for clarification and explanation. 3. Identify the main idea of oral presentations and visual media. Benchmark B. Connect prior experiences, insights and ideas to those of a speaker. 2. Compare what is heard with prior knowledge and experience. Benchmark C. Follow multi-step directions. 4. Follow two- and three-step oral directions. Benchmark D. Speak clearly and at an appropriate pace and volume. 5. Demonstrate an understanding of the rules of the English language. 6. Select language appropriate to purpose and use clear diction and tone. 7. Adjust volume to stress important ideas. Benchmark E. Deliver a variety of presentations that include relevant information and a clear sense of purpose. 8. Deliver informational presentations that: a. present events or ideas in logical sequence and maintain a clear focus; b. demonstrate an understanding of the topic; c. include relevant facts and details to develop a topic; d. organize information with a clear beginning and ending; e. include diagrams, charts or illustrations as appropriate; and f. identify sources. 9. Deliver formal and informal descriptive presentations recalling an event or personal experience that convey relevant information and descriptive details. 10. Deliver simple dramatic presentations (e.g., recite poems, rhymes, songs and stories). |
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