Second Grade Literacy Objectives

2011-2012

Language Structures and Vocabulary Development (R2:3, R2:5, R2:6) Student applies word identification, decoding skills and vocabulary knowledge to reading.

1. Student reads words with vowel teams, vowel-r, common prefixes & suffixes.
2. Student reads grade-appropriate, high-frequency words.
3. Student reads regularly spelled multi-syllabic words using knowledge of syllable types.
4. Student uses knowledge of word structure to unlock the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary.
5. Student identifies synonyms and antonyms.
6. Student describes words in terms of categories, functions, or features.

Strategies Used During Text Reading (R2:4, R2:7, R2:8) Student uses comprehension strategies when reading or listening to text.

1. Student applies self-correction strategies by crosschecking visual, syntax and meaning cues.
2. Student uses comprehension strategies (i.e. prior knowledge, predicting, questioning, constructing sensory images, making connections) while reading and while listening to text.
3. Student monitors comprehension by adjusting rate, rereading & asking questions.

Reading with Accuracy and Fluency (R2:9, R2:17, R:2:18) Student reads grade level material with accuracy and fluency, and reads extensively.

1. Student reads material at Level 28/M (end gr. 2) with at least 94% accuracy.
2. Student reads grade-level text with oral fluency rate of at least 80–100 wcpm.
3. Student reads grade-level text with phrasing, expression & attention to punctuation.
4. Student reads one or two books, or medium-long chapters, or equivalent every day.

Understanding, Analysis, and Interpretation of Text (R2:10- 16 & 19) Student understands, analyzes and interprets text, citing evidence as appropriate when reading and when listening to text. Student participates in discussions about text.

1. Student identifies characters, setting, problem, solution, or major events.
2. Student retells the key elements of a story.
3. Student makes a logical prediction in literary texts.
4. Student identifies personality traits and motivations of characters.
5. Student makes basic inferences about problem or solution.
6. Student recognizes explicitly stated causes or effects.
7. Student connects stories to personal experience, prior knowledge, or other books.
8. Student generates a personal response to what is read.
9. Student identifies author’s craft of using literary devices.
10. Student distinguishes among a variety of types of literary & informational text.
11. Student obtains information from text features of informational text (contents, glossary, illustrations).
12. Student locates & records information on graphic organizer to show understanding.
13. Student connects information within an informational text.
14. Student makes basic inferences or draws basic conclusions in informational text.
15. Student makes an inference about causes or effects, when signal words are present.
16. Student selects reading materials in line w. reading ability & interests.
17. Student participates in discussions about text, offers comments & evidence from text.

Writing Process, Genres and Conventions (W2:1, W2:3, W2:6-12, W2:18-19) Student writes narratives, informational reports, and responses to text, making and supporting analytical judgments about text. Student uses grade level spelling, punctuation, and handwriting.

1. Student revises, edits for GUM, critiques with adult support to produce a final draft.
2. Student uses capital letters for names & start of sentences, & correct end punctuation (period, ?,!).
3. Student correctly spells grade-appropriate, high-frequency words.
4. Student represents each sound heard in a word w. a grapheme (little=lidl).
5. Student correctly spells phonetically regular words with vowel-r, vowel teams, and suffixes.
6. Student correctly spells past tense (three sounds for -ed) and plural endings (-s,-es) with no alterations required.
7. Student independently writes in complete sentences with some expanded sentences.
8. Student responds to literary or info text using references to text to support a focus.
9. Student responds to literary or info text using a beginning, middle, and concluding sentence/statement (with template, frame).
10. Student writes a report using a given an organizational structure, restates the focus and includes details relevant to topic.
11. Student writes a narrative including a beginning, middle and end, with a clear story line, problem and solution, characters and details.
12. Student writes poetry establishing a clear topic with simple images and forms to describe (shape poems, rhymes).
13. Student forms letters into words fluently.

Speaking and Listening Student listens and speaks effectively in a variety of situations.

1. Student uses age appropriate standard English.
2. Student retells stories, directions, and factual information from research.
3. Student asks and answers questions relevant to group discussion.
4. Student listens in order to respond critically, make judgments, solve problems, or make predictions.