2nd Grade ELA (New York Next Generation)

Reading (Literary and Informational)

• 2R1 (RI&RL) Ask and answer questions to show they understand the key ideas and details.
• 2R2 (RI&RL) Find the main topic or central idea, retell key details and summarize parts of the text.
• 2R3 (RL) Describe how characters react to major events and challenges in a story.
• 2R3 (RI) Describe how ideas, concepts or a series of events connect in an informational text.
• 2R4 (RI&RL) Explain how words and phrases suggest feelings and appeal to the senses.
• 2R5 (RI&RL) Describe a text's overall structure, including how the beginning sets it up and the ending wraps it up.
• 2R6 (RI&RL) Recognize how pictures, text features and details support a text's point of view or purpose.
• 2R7 (RI&RL) Use information from pictures or text features to show understanding of story elements or the topic.
• 2R8 (RI&RL) Explain how relevant reasons back up the points an author or illustrator makes.
• 2R9 (RI&RL) Connect a text to themselves, to other texts and to the wider world.

Reading Foundations

• 2RF3 Know and use phonics and word analysis to decode words.
• 2RF3a Tell long from short vowels in regular one-syllable words, including vowel teams.
• 2RF3b Read short and long vowel sounds in two-syllable words.
• 2RF3c Read regular two-syllable words.
• 2RF3d Recognize root words and common prefixes and suffixes.
• 2RF3e Read all common high-frequency words on sight.
• 2RF4 Read grade-level text accurately and smoothly enough to understand it.
• 2RF4a Reread grade-level text aloud accurately, at a good pace and with expression.
• 2RF4b Use the context to check or self-correct their reading of words, rereading when needed.

Writing

• 2W1 Write an opinion with clear reasons and relevant evidence, and begin to tell opinion apart from argument.
• 2W2 Write informative pieces that introduce a topic, use facts and end with a concluding statement.
• 2W3 Write narratives with details of actions, thoughts and feelings, time words and an ending.
• 2W4 Respond creatively to a text, author, theme or experience, for example with a poem, play or artwork.
• 2W6 Come up with questions and join in shared research to answer them and build knowledge.
• 2W7 Recall relevant information or collect it from given sources to answer a question.

Speaking and Listening

• 2SL1 Take part in group conversations and play with varied classmates and adults.
• 2SL1a Follow discussion rules: listen actively, take turns and stay on topic.
• 2SL1b Build on others' talk by linking their own comments to what was said, over several turns.
• 2SL1c Ask for clarification and more explanation about the topic or text.
• 2SL1d Take account of individual differences when communicating with others.
• 2SL2 Retell or describe key ideas or details from texts and information in different formats.
• 2SL3 Ask and answer questions about a speaker's points and agree or disagree with reasons.
• 2SL4 Talk about people, places, things and events using relevant detail and express feelings clearly.
• 2SL5 Add digital media or visuals to presentations to clarify or support ideas.
• 2SL6 Express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly, adjusting language to the situation.

Language

• 2L3 Apply what they know about how English works whenever they write, speak, read or listen.
• 2L3a Compare academic and everyday conversational English.
• 2L4 Use a range of strategies to work out unknown and multiple-meaning words.
• 2L4a Use the sentence as a clue to a word's meaning.
• 2L4b Work out a new word made by adding a known prefix to a known word.
• 2L4c Use a known root to work out an unknown word with the same root.
• 2L4d Predict a compound word's meaning from the meanings of its parts.
• 2L4e Use glossaries and beginner dictionaries to check word meanings.
• 2L5 Show understanding of how words relate and differ slightly in meaning.
• 2L5a Find real-life links between words and how they are used.
• 2L5b Use words to name and describe, such as foods that are spicy or juicy.
• 2L5c Tell apart closely related verbs and adjectives with slightly different meanings.
• 2L6 Use words and phrases from talk and reading, including adjectives and adverbs.