Second Grade Expectations

Listening and Speaking
L.S 2.1- Listens and responds to simple commands, instructions, and statements, and is able to answer the 5 wh questions during story time using expressions to demonstrate engagement.
L.S 2.2- Applies phonemic awareness and auditory discrimination to identify distinctive sounds.
L.S 2.3- Uses appropiate vocabulary and language patterns to identify, describe, and classify familiar concepts related to self, family, and environment, and to interact with peers.
L.S. 2.4- Demonstrates verbal and nonverbal forms of greetings, farewells, and introductions using the appropiate courtesy expressions in simple sentences.
L.S. 2.5- Expresses feelings, needs, ideas, and experiences; discusses learned concepts from content area or class readings using acquired language.
Reading
R 2.1- Uses letter-sound relationship to decode words and phrases fluently.
R 2.2- Uses phonemic awareness strategies to manipulate sounds and to form new multisyllabic words; reads words and phrases in simple narrative text fluently.
R 2.3- Uses context clues and acknowledge resources as a support to build vocabulary, verify meaning, and determine the meaning of unfamiliar words; demonstrates an acquisition of grade level vocabulary and transfers word meaning into a variety of narrative texts.
R 2.4- Identifies and states the main character; establishes similarities and differences between characters; identifies the setting within narrative text.
R 2.5- Demonstrates an understanding of story organization of beginning, middle, an end; makes predictions within narrative text.
Writing
W 2.1- Matches all uppercase letters to their corresponding lowercase counterparts; arranges words in alphabetical order using first letter criteria.
W 2.2- Uses phonemic awareness and phonics strategies to write simple words, applies correct letter and spacing.
W 2.3- Applies correct capitalization and punctuation marks in declarative and interrogative sentences; identifies the main parts of speech.
W 2.4- Writes to express feelings, familiar topics, experiences, and describe picture; uses high frequency words to write simple sentences of three to four words in length, applies correct word spacing.

W 2.5- Uses the dictionary as an aid in the writing process; uses visual aids to support generating ideas.