Second-Grade Learning Outcomes - Third Grading Period

This document highlights the focus standards for each grading period.  Teachers may choose to review previously taught standards as well.

Language Arts - Reading

Uses phonetic strategies

• Use knowledge of long and r-controlled vowel patterns to decode and spell words

• Decode regular multisyllabic words

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Expands vocabulary

• Use information in the story to read words
• Use knowledge of sentence structure
• Use knowledge of story structure and sequence
• Reread and self-correct
• Use knowledge of suffixes
• Use knowledge of antonyms 
• Discuss meanings of words and develop vocabulary by listening and reading a variety of texts
• Use vocabulary from other content areas

Demonstrates comprehension of fictional texts

• Locate information to answer questions
• Identify the problem and solution
• Identify the main idea
• Summarize stories and events with beginning, middle, and end in the correct sequence
• Draw conclusions based on the text
• Read and reread familiar stories, poems, and passages with fluency, accuracy and meaningful expression

Demonstrates comprehension of  nonfiction texts

• Ask and answer questions about what is read
• Locate information to answer questions
• Identify main idea
• Read and reread familiar passages with fluency, accuracy and meaningful expression
• Use pictures, captions, and charts
• Use dictionaries
• Use online resources

Language Arts - Writing

MODE – Informational/expository

Writes for a variety of purposes

• Generate ideas before writing
• Organize writing to include a beginning, middle, and end for narrative and expository writing
• Expand writing to include descriptive detail
• Revise writing for clarity

Edits writing for correct grammar, capitalization, punctuation and spelling

• Use apostrophes in possessives
• Use singular possessives
• Use correct spelling for commonly used sight words, including compound words and regular

      plurals

• Use verbs correctly in sentences

Demonstrates growth in word study knowledge and applies it to writing

• Differentiated word study groups

Mathematics

Number and number sense

• Read, write and identify the place and value of each digit in a three-digit numeral, with and without models
• Identify the number that is 100 more and 100 less than a given number up to 999
• Compare and order whole numbers between zero and 999
• Use models to represent numbers in multiple ways

Computation and estimation

• Recognize and use the relationships between addition and subtraction to solve singlestep practical problems, with whole numbers to 20
• Demonstrate fluency with addition and subtraction within 20
• Estimate sums and differences
• Determine sums and differences, using various methods
• Create and solve single-step and two-step practical problems involving addition and subtraction
• Estimate and find the sum of two whole numbers whose sum is 99 or less, using various methods of calculation
• Use efficient mental strategies to develop fluency of basic facts (ongoing)

Geometry

• Draw a line of symmetry in a figure
• Identify and create figures with at least one line of symmetry
• Identify, describe, compare and contrast plane and solid figures (circles/spheres, squares/cubes and rectangles/rectangular prisms)

Science

Scientific investigation/Reasoning/Logic

• Conduct and gather data from simple experiments
• Observe and predict objects/events to formulate questions
• Interpret objects/events differently from personal observations
• Classify objects/events by two or more physical characteristics or properties
• Measure length, mass, volume, and temperature using the proper tool for standard English units and metric units
• Measure time using analog and digital clocks
• Identify conditions that influence a change and make inferences
• Construct a bar graph using numbered axes to record collected data
• Analyze data and recognize unexpected or unusual quantitative data
• Communicate and draw conclusions from observations and data  
• Design and construct simple physical models to explain/show relationships
• Reinforce science concepts with the use of current applications
• Conduct and gather data from simple experiments

Earth/space systems and cycles

• Identify growth, physical and behavioral responses of plants and animals to weather and seasonal changes
• Identify animals that migrate, hibernate or show other changes throughout the seasons or adverse environmental conditions
• Evaluate the usefulness of camouflage in an animal’s habitat
• Compare and contrast the responses of plants and animals to weather and seasonal changes
• Model the effects of weathering and erosion on the land surface
• Understand that plants produce oxygen and food
• Classify and identify the sources and uses of plant products
• Describe how the availability of certain plant products in a geographic area would affect the development of that area
• List, classify and describe plant products useful to people that are grown in each region of Virginia  
• Compare and contrast different ways animals use plants as homes and shelters
• Construct and interpret a chart illustrating the plant foods consumed by different animals
• Construct and interpret a model that demonstrates how plants are important in the prevention of soil erosion

Social Studies

 Civics                

• Identify George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Helen Keller, Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King, Jr., as Americans whose contributions improved the lives of other Americans
  

 Geography            

• Develop map skills by locating the United States and China on world maps
• Develop map skills by understanding the relationship between the environment and the culture of ancient China
  

 History                                      

• Explain how the contributions of ancient China have influenced the present world in terms of architecture, inventions, the calendar and written language