Welcome to Second Grade!
Goals for Second GradeHaving clearly defined goals helps families and teachers work together to ensure that students succeed. Standards help parents and teachers know when students need extra assistance or when they need to be challenged even more. They also will help your child develop critical thinking skills.
Literacy■ Paying close attention to details, including illustrations and graphics, in stories and books to answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions
■ Determining the lesson or moral of stories, fables, and folktales ■ Using text features (e.g., captions, bold print, indexes) to locate key facts or information efficiently ■ Writing an opinion about a book he or she has read, using important details from the materials to support that opinion ■ Writing stories that include a short sequence of events and include a clear beginning, middle, and end ■ Participating in shared research projects (e.g., read books on a single topic to produce a report) ■ Taking part in conversations by linking his or her comments to the remarks of others and asking and answering questions to gather additional information or deepen understanding of the topic ■ Retelling key information or ideas from media or books read aloud ■ Producing, expanding, and rearranging sentences (e.g., “The boy watched the movie”; “The little boy watched the movie”; “The action movie was watched by the little boy”) ■ Determining the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix or suffix is added to a known word (happy/unhappy; pain/painful/painless) Math■ Solving challenging addition and subtraction word problems with one or two steps (e.g., a “one-step” problem would be: “Lucy has 23 fewer apples than Julie. Julie has 47 apples. How many apples does Lucy have?”)
■ Quickly and accurately adding with a sum of 20 or less (e.g., 11 + 8); quickly and accurately subtracting from a number 20 or less (e.g., 16 – 9); and knowing all sums of one-digit numbers from memory by the end of the year ■ Understanding what the digits mean in three-digit numbers (place value) ■ Using understanding of place value to add and subtract three-digit numbers (e.g., 811 – 367); adding and subtracting two-digit numbers quickly and accurately (e.g., 77 – 28) ■ Measuring and estimating length in standard units ■ Solving addition and subtraction word problems involving length (e.g., “The pen is 2 cm longer than the pencil. If the pencil is 7 cm long, how long is the pen?”) ■ Building, drawing, and analyzing 2-D and 3-D shapes to develop foundations for area, volume, and geometry in later grades |
Second Grade Teachers
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