2nd Grade ELA (Alaska Standards)

Reading Standards for Literature

• RL.2.1 Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions to show understanding of key details in a story.
• RL.2.2 Retell stories, including fables and folktales from many cultures, and find their purpose, central message or lesson.
• RL.2.3 Describe how characters respond to major events and challenges.
• RL.2.4 Find rhythm, alliteration, rhyme and sensory images in stories, poems or songs and describe the feelings or pictures they create.
• RL.2.5 Describe a story's structure: a beginning that introduces it, a middle with the problem and an ending with the solution.
• RL.2.6 Notice how characters see things differently, e.g. by giving each one its own voice when reading aloud.
• RL.2.7 Use both the pictures and the words of a print or digital story to understand characters, setting or plot.
• RL.2.9 Say how versions of one story from different authors or cultures are alike and different.
• RL.2.10 By year's end, read literature from many cultures in the grades 1–3 complexity range, with support as needed.

Reading Standards for Informational Text

• RI.2.1 Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions about key details in an informational text.
• RI.2.2 Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text and the focus of each paragraph.
• RI.2.3 Explain how a chain of history events, science ideas or steps in a process link together.
• RI.2.4 Figure out what words and phrases mean in a grade 2 text on a subject.
• RI.2.5 Know and use text features (captions, bold print, headings and similar) to find key facts.
• RI.2.6 Say why a text was written: the question it answers or what it explains or describes.
• RI.2.7 Explain how images such as diagrams help clarify a text.
• RI.2.8 Describe how reasons support the specific opinions or points an author makes.
• RI.2.9 Compare and contrast the most important points of two texts on the same topic.
• RI.2.10 By year's end, read history, science and technical texts in the grades 1–3 complexity range, with support as needed.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

• RF.2.3 Use grade-level phonics and word-analysis skills to sound out and read words. (being checked)
  • a. Tell long from short vowels in regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  • b. Know the sounds of more common vowel teams.
  • c. Sound out two-syllable words with long vowels and regular spellings.
  • d. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.
  • e. Recognize words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound patterns.
  • f. Read grade 2 words whose spellings do not follow the usual rules.
• RF.2.4 Read with enough accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
  • a. Read texts at grade level with a clear purpose and understanding.
  • b. Read grade-level text aloud accurately, at a suitable rate and with expression, over repeated readings.
  • c. Use context to confirm or correct word reading, rereading as needed.

Writing Standards

• W.2.1 Write opinion pieces that state an opinion, give reasons linked by words such as because, and end with a conclusion.
• W.2.2 Write informative texts that introduce a topic, use facts and definitions and end with a conclusion.
• W.2.3 Write narratives of an event or short sequence with feelings, time words and an ending such as a lesson learned.
• W.2.5 With support, focus on a topic and strengthen writing by revising and editing, adding sensory details.
• W.2.6 With adult help, use digital tools to create and share writing, sometimes with classmates.
• W.2.7 Join group research and writing projects, such as reading several books on a topic or logging science observations.
• W.2.8 Recall information from experience or gather it from given sources to answer a question.

Speaking and Listening Standards

• SL.2.1 Take part in conversations with different partners about grade 2 topics and texts, in small and larger groups.
  • a. Follow agreed rules for discussion, such as gaining the floor respectfully and listening carefully.
  • b. Build on others' talk by linking comments to what others have said.
  • c. Ask for clarification and further explanation about topics and texts.
• SL.2.2 Retell the main ideas or details of a read-aloud or of information heard or seen in media.
• SL.2.3 Ask and answer questions about a speaker's words to clear things up, learn more or understand better.
• SL.2.4 Tell a story or describe an experience with fitting facts and details, speaking clearly in full sentences.
• SL.2.5 Make audio recordings of stories or poems and add drawings or other visuals to clarify ideas.
• SL.2.6 Speak in complete sentences when needed to give requested detail or clarification.

Language Standards

• L.2.1 Use correct standard English grammar when speaking and writing.
  • a. Use collective nouns (e.g. group, team).
  • b. Form and use common irregular plurals (e.g. feet, teeth).
  • c. Use reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, ourselves).
  • d. Form and use the past tense of common irregular verbs (e.g. sat, hid, told).
  • e. Use adjectives and adverbs, picking the right one for the word being described.
  • f. Produce, expand and rearrange simple and compound sentences.
• L.2.2 Show command of capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing.
  • a. Capitalize holidays, product names and geographic names.
  • b. Put a comma after a letter's greeting and closing.
  • c. Use an apostrophe for contractions and common possessives.
  • d. Apply learned spelling patterns to new words (e.g. cage to badge).
  • e. Check and correct spellings with reference materials, including beginning dictionaries.
• L.2.3 Apply what is known about language and its rules in writing, speaking, reading and listening.
  • a. Compare formal and informal uses of English.
• L.2.4 Work out unknown and multiple-meaning words by choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
  • a. Use the rest of the sentence as a clue to what a word or phrase means.
  • b. Work out new words formed with a known prefix (e.g. unhappy, retell).
  • c. Use a known root word to work out a related word (e.g. addition, additional).
  • d. Predict the meaning of compound words from the meanings of their parts.
  • e. Use glossaries and beginning dictionaries, print and digital, to find or check meanings.
• L.2.5 Show understanding of word relationships and shades of meaning.
  • a. Find real-life links between words and their use (e.g. foods that are spicy or juicy).
  • b. Tell apart shades of meaning among closely related verbs and adjectives.
• L.2.6 Use words and phrases learned through conversation and reading, including adjectives and adverbs for description.