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English Language Arts
Phonics and Word Recognition
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
Sentence Structure: Distinguish between complete (When Tom hit the ball, he was proud.) and incomplete sentences (When Tom hit the ball).
Decoding words with accuracy depends on knowledge of complex spelling patterns and morphology. Students can:
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings. (CCSS: L.2.5)
Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (e.g., toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (e.g., thin, slender, skinny, scrawny). (CCSS: L.2.5b)
Capitalization: Capitalize all proper nouns (names of specific people or things, such as Mike, Indiana, Jeep), words at the beginning of sentences and greetings, months and days of the week, and titles (Dr., Mr., Mrs., Miss) and initials in names.
Decoding and Word Recognition: Recognize common abbreviations (Jan., Fri.).
Word Analysis: Students will use phonetic analysis to read, write, and spell grade-level text.
Use word structure to read text (e.g., onset and rime, prefixes/suffixes, compound words, contractions, syllabication, derivation)
Conventions of Standard English
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.
Phonics and Word Recognition
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on Grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix is added to a known word (e.g., happy/unhappy, tell/retell).
Phonics and Word Recognition
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.
Key Ideas and Details
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Make predictions from text clues.
Grammar/Usage and Mechanics - The student will demonstrate appropriate practices in writing by applying Standard English conventions to the revising and editing stages of writing.
Punctuation: Students are expected to demonstrate appropriate punctuation in writing.
Use a period in common abbreviations.
Use grammar concepts and skills that strengthen oral and written language
Use various parts of speech, such as nouns, pronouns, and verbs
Conventions of Standard English
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.
Phonics and Word Recognition
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
Phonological Awareness
Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
Phonological Awareness
Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
Students will master the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words by the end of grade one.
Discriminate and produce rhyming words and alliteration
Produce sentences with rhyming and alliteration
Science
The student demonstrates an understanding of how science explains changes in life forms over time, including genetics, heredity, the process of natural selection and biological evolution by describing how some traits (e.g. claws, teeth, camouflage) of living organisms have helped them survive as a species.