2nd Grade ELA (Mississippi CCR Standards)

Reading Literature (RL)

• RL.2.1 Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions about key details.
• RL.2.2 Retell fables and folktales and identify their central message or lesson.
• RL.2.3 Describe how characters respond to major events and challenges.
• RL.2.4 Explain how words and repeated sounds add rhythm and meaning.
• RL.2.5 Describe how a story begins and ends.
• RL.2.6 Recognize that characters have different points of view and voices.
• RL.2.7 Use pictures and words to understand characters, setting, or plot.
• RL.2.8 (Not applicable to literature.)
• RL.2.9 Compare two or more versions of one story.
• RL.2.10 Read literature in the grades 2–3 complexity band.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• RI.2.1 Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions about key details.
• RI.2.2 Identify the main topic of a text with several paragraphs and the focus of each paragraph.
• RI.2.3 Describe how a series of events, ideas, or steps in a procedure connect.
• RI.2.4 Work out the meaning of grade-level words and phrases.
• RI.2.5 Use text features to find key facts quickly.
• RI.2.6 Identify the main purpose of a text.
• RI.2.7 Explain how images such as diagrams clarify a text.
• RI.2.8 Describe how reasons support the specific points an author makes.
• RI.2.9 Compare the key points of two texts on the same topic.
• RI.2.10 Read informational texts in the grades 2–3 complexity band.

Reading Foundational Skills (RF)

• RF.2.1 (Not applicable in grade 2.)
• RF.2.2 (Not applicable in grade 2.)
• RF.2.3 Use grade-level phonics and word analysis to decode words (code printed as RF.1.3 in the Grade 2 section). (being checked)
  • a. Tell long and short vowels apart in regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  • b. Know the spelling-sound patterns of more vowel teams.
  • c. Sound out regular two-syllable words that have long vowels.
  • d. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.
  • e. Recognize words with common but inconsistent spelling-sound patterns.
  • f. Read irregularly spelled words suited to grade 2.
• RF.2.4 Read accurately and fluently enough to support understanding (code printed as RF.1.4 in the Grade 2 section). (being checked)
  • a. Read grade-level text with a purpose and understand it.
  • b. Read grade-level text aloud accurately and with expression.
  • c. Use context to confirm or correct word reading.

Writing (W)

• W.2.1 Write opinion pieces with reasons and a concluding statement.
• W.2.2 Write informative texts with facts, definitions, and a conclusion.
• W.2.3 Write narratives with detailed events, feelings, and closure.
• W.2.4 (Begins in grade 3) Production and distribution of writing.
• W.2.5 With help, focus on a topic and revise and edit writing.
• W.2.6 With help, use digital tools to produce and publish writing with peers.
• W.2.7 Take part in shared research and writing projects on one topic.
• W.2.8 Recall experiences or gather information from sources to answer a question.
• W.2.9 (Begins in grade 4) Drawing evidence from texts for research.
• W.2.10 (Begins in grade 3) Range of writing.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• SL.2.1 Take part in group discussions with different partners following agreed rules.
  • a. Follow agreed rules such as taking turns and listening carefully.
  • b. Link own comments to what others have said.
  • c. Ask for clarification and more explanation when needed.
• SL.2.2 Retell or describe key details from a text read aloud or other media.
• SL.2.3 Ask and answer questions about a speaker's words to understand more.
• SL.2.4 Tell a story or describe an experience with facts and clear details.
• SL.2.5 Make audio recordings of stories or poems and add drawings to clarify ideas.
• SL.2.6 Speak in complete sentences when the situation calls for it.

Language (L)

• L.2.1 Use standard English grammar and usage.
  • a. Use collective nouns.
  • b. Form and use common irregular plural nouns.
  • c. Use reflexive pronouns.
  • d. Form and use the past tense of common irregular verbs.
  • e. Choose between adjectives and adverbs depending on what is modified.
• L.2.2 Use standard capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
  • a. Capitalize holidays, product names, and place names.
  • b. Put commas in letter greetings and closings.
  • c. Use apostrophes in contractions and common possessives.
  • d. Use learned spelling patterns when writing words.
  • e. Check spelling with reference materials such as dictionaries.
• L.2.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions.
  • a. Compare formal and informal uses of English.
• L.2.4 Work out unknown and multiple-meaning words with a range of strategies.
  • a. Use sentence context as a clue to meaning.
  • b. Work out the meaning of a word made by adding a known prefix.
  • c. Use a known root to understand an unknown word with the same root.
  • d. Predict the meaning of compound words from their parts.
  • e. Use glossaries and beginning dictionaries to find meanings.
• L.2.5 Understand word relationships and small differences in meaning.
  • a. Link words to real-life uses, such as describing foods.
  • b. Tell apart shades of meaning in related verbs and adjectives.
• L.2.6 Use words learned in conversation and reading, including adjectives and adverbs to describe.