To build reading skills, your second grader:
To build writing skills, your second grader:
To build math skills, your 2nd grader:
- Reads more complex words, such as two-syllable words.
- Reads words with common prefixes and suffixes, for example: pre-, re-, un-, -able, -ad, and -er.
- Reads grade-appropriate, irregularly spelled words
- Reads a variety of texts including fiction, non-fiction, fables, and poetry
- Understands the structure of a story, specifically the purpose of beginnings (introducing the text) and endings (concluding the text).
- Understands the most important details of a text—its main purpose and the “who,” “what,” “where,” “when,” “why,” and “how.”
- Talks about characters’ responses, main events, lessons learned, and important ideas or concepts.
- Begins to make connections within and between texts.
- Compares at least two different versions of the same story, such as two versions of a classic fairy tale.
- Reads at grade-level with correct accuracy, pace, expression, and comprehension.
- Self-corrects mistakes and re-reads when necessary.
To build writing skills, your second grader:
- Writes a variety of types of texts including:
- Opinion Pieces: Students state their opinions and provide reasons to support them, closing with a conclusion.
- Narrative Pieces: Students write about an event, describing actions, thoughts, and feelings, and provide a conclusion.
- Informative/Explanatory Pieces: Students introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a conclusion.
- Revises and edits writing to improve it.
- Uses digital tools with the aid of the teacher to publish writing
- Researches topics for shared, group, or class-wide research and writing projects.
To build math skills, your 2nd grader:
- Adds and subtracts numbers from 1-20 using mental strategies and ultimately, by the end of the year, adds two 1-digit numbers from memory
- Solves one- and two-step addition and subtraction problems with numbers up to 100, using drawings and equations and explaining the process.
- Learns the difference between odd and even numbers.
- Begins learning the foundations of multiplication by adding the same number to itself (for example, 4+4) and grouping together the same number of objects to add up to more.
- Understands and can break down a 3-digit number into groups of hundreds, tens, and ones.
- Compares 3-digit numbers, using the signs: >, <, and =.
- Practices adding together up to four 2-digit numbers by skip counting and adding smaller parts of the numbers together.
- Measures objects and uses different units of measurement, like inches and centimeters
- Estimates an object’s measurement and measures how much longer one object is than another.
- Begins to solve word problems involving money.
- Recognizes triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes—and their defining characteristics, such as the number of angles.
- Breaks up shapes into halves, thirds, and fourths, and uses smaller shapes to create larger one