2nd Grade ELA (Oregon Common Core)

Reading Foundational Skills (RF)

• ELA.2.RF.1 No new grade 2 expectation: ODE points to earlier grades for students who still need help with print concepts.
• ELA.2.RF.2 Use knowledge of spoken words, syllables and sounds to read and spell one- and multi-syllable words.
• ELA.2.RF.3 Use grade-level phonics and word analysis to read and spell words.
  • a. Tell long from short vowels in regular one-syllable words.
  • b. Know the spellings and sounds of more common vowel teams.
  • c. Read and spell regular two-syllable words with long vowels.
  • d. Recognize, read and know the meanings of common prefixes and derivational suffixes.
  • e. Recognize words whose spelling and sound do not match in the usual way.
  • f. Recognize and read irregular words.
• ELA.2.RF.4 Read grade-level text fluently, with accuracy, good pace and expression, to support understanding.
  • a. Read with purpose and understanding.
  • b. Read aloud accurately, at a suitable pace and with expression.
  • c. Use context to confirm or fix word reading, rereading when needed.

Reading Literature (RL)

• ELA.2.RL.1 Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions about a story and back up sensible inferences.
• ELA.2.RL.2 Use stated and implied information in stories, including fables and folktales, to find the central message or lesson.
• ELA.2.RL.3 Describe how characters react to major events and challenges, including their feelings, the problem and how it is solved.
• ELA.2.RL.4 Describe how rhythm, alliteration, rhyme and repetition add meaning in stories, poems or songs.
• ELA.2.RL.5 Describe the overall structure of a story, poem or play, such as linear, non-linear or circular.
• ELA.2.RL.6 Recognize characters' different points of view, change voice when reading dialogue and explain how viewpoints shape the text.
• ELA.2.RL.7 Use pictures and words in any format to understand characters, setting or plot.
• ELA.2.RL.9 Compare versions of one story told by different authors or cultures.
• ELA.2.RL.10 Use decoding and comprehension strategies flexibly to read and analyze grade-level literature on their own.

Reading Informational Text (RI)

• ELA.2.RI.1 Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions about an informational text and back up sensible inferences.
• ELA.2.RI.2 Use stated and implied information to find the central idea of a text.
• ELA.2.RI.3 Describe links between people, historical events, scientific ideas or steps in a technical procedure.
• ELA.2.RI.4 Work out what words and phrases mean in grade 2 topics and how they shape meaning.
• ELA.2.RI.5 Recognize informational text structures and how sentences and paragraphs build the whole.
• ELA.2.RI.6 Identify a text's main purpose and how the author's aim to inform, explain or describe shapes its content.
• ELA.2.RI.7 Take information from visuals and words and explain how it helps understanding.
• ELA.2.RI.8 Describe how an author's reasons back up particular points.
• ELA.2.RI.9 Compare the most important points of two texts on the same topic.
• ELA.2.RI.10 Use decoding and comprehension strategies flexibly to read and analyze grade-level informational texts on their own.

Writing (W)

• ELA.2.W.1 With scaffolding, write opinion pieces on topics or texts backed by reasons.
  • a. Introduce the topic, state the opinion and set up an organizing structure.
  • b. Give reasons and details for the opinion.
  • c. Use simple linking words between ideas.
  • d. Give an ending.
• ELA.2.W.2 With scaffolding, write informative or explanatory texts that set out and develop a topic.
  • a. Introduce the topic.
  • b. Add detailed information that develops the topic.
  • c. Use simple joining words inside sentences.
  • d. Use simple linking words between ideas.
  • e. Give an ending.
• ELA.2.W.3 With scaffolding, write narratives of real or imagined experiences with details, techniques and a clear order.
  • a. Retell one or more events, memories or ideas.
  • b. Include details about actions, thoughts and feelings.
  • c. Use time words and phrases to show the order of events.
  • d. Give an ending.
• ELA.2.W.5 With guidance, keep to a topic and improve writing by planning, drafting, revising and editing.
• ELA.2.W.6 With scaffolding, use digital tools and handwriting to produce, publish and work on writing with others.
• ELA.2.W.7 Join in shared research and writing projects that build knowledge of a topic.
• ELA.2.W.8 Gather information from experience or sources to answer or raise questions.

Language (L)

• ELA.2.L.1 Use standard English grammar and usage correctly in writing and speech.
  • a. Use collective nouns.
  • b. Use common irregular plural nouns.
  • c. Use reflexive pronouns.
  • d. Use the past tense of common irregular verbs.
  • e. Use adjectives and adverbs in sentences.
  • f. Build, extend and reorder complete simple and compound sentences.
• ELA.2.L.2 Show control of capital letters, punctuation and spelling when writing.
  • a. Capitalize proper nouns, including holidays, product names and place names.
  • b. Use commas correctly in different kinds of writing.
  • c. Use apostrophes for contractions and possessives.
  • d. Apply spelling patterns to new words.
  • e. Check and fix spelling with beginner dictionaries and other references, print or digital.
• ELA.2.L.3 Apply what they know about how English works whenever they write, speak, read or listen.
  • a. Compare formal and informal English.
• ELA.2.L.4 Use strategies flexibly to work out unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases.
  • a. Use the sentence as a clue to a word's meaning.
  • b. Work out a new word made by adding a known prefix to a known word.
  • c. Use a known root to work out an unknown word with the same root.
  • d. Use the meanings of the parts to predict what a compound word means.
  • e. Use glossaries, beginner dictionaries and other references to check meanings.
• ELA.2.L.5 Show understanding of how words relate and differ slightly in meaning.
  • a. Link words with their synonyms and antonyms.
  • b. Tell apart closely related verbs and adjectives with slightly different meanings.
• ELA.2.L.6 Use words and phrases picked up from talk and reading, including adjectives and adverbs to describe.

Speaking and Listening (SL)

• ELA.2.SL.1 Take part in group conversations with varied partners about grade 2 topics and texts.
  • a. Follow agreed rules for discussion.
  • b. Build on what others say by linking their own comments to it.
  • c. Ask for clarification and more explanation about the topic or text.
• ELA.2.SL.2 Retell or describe the key ideas or details of something read aloud or shared by speech or media.
• ELA.2.SL.3 Question a speaker and answer questions about what was said, to clarify, learn more or understand better.
• ELA.2.SL.4 Tell a story or describe an experience with relevant facts and details, speaking clearly in connected sentences.
• ELA.2.SL.5 Add audio recordings, drawings or visuals to stories or accounts to make ideas and feelings clearer.
• ELA.2.SL.6 Speak in complete sentences when it suits the situation, to give requested detail or clarification.