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2nd grade 19 TAC §110.4 97 student expectations 11 activities

2nd grade Reading & Writing

Second graders become more fluent readers and start reading longer texts with understanding. Word study deepens with prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, and antonyms; writing grows into short organized pieces; and children begin comparing texts and describing an author's craft.

Practice activities

🔤Sound Play and SpellingRhymes, long and short vowels, sound changes, decoding words with blends, trigraphs, and variant vowels, dividing longer words, sight words, spelling with syllable types, double consonants, prefixes, endings, and using a dictionary.
🚀Typing Rocket: Blends and Vowel TeamsType words with blends, digraphs and vowel teams (ai, ay, ee, ea, oa) to launch the rocket.
🧺Word Catch: Nouns and VerbsCatch nouns, verbs, and words with the vowel teams ai, ee, and oa.
🐝Spelling SmartsSilent letters, compound words, contractions, abbreviations, prefixes and endings, and alphabetical order.
🤝Memory Match: ContractionsMatch each contraction to the two words it squeezes together, like can’t and cannot.
🔍Word DetectivePrefixes, suffixes, antonyms, synonyms, and context clues.
🤝Reading TogetherSet a purpose, picture the story, connect, synthesize, monitor, respond with comments and evidence, use new vocabulary, name the theme, recognize informational text features, and develop and edit drafts.
🏕️Reading RangerPredict, infer, find key ideas, retell in order, and describe characters, conflicts, and settings.
🔎Authors, Poems, and ResearchFolktales and fairy tales, patterns in poems, drama, text features, persuasive writing, author's purpose, literal vs. figurative, repetition, first and third person, revising, prepositions, and research with primary and secondary sources.
⚖️Fact or Opinion?Telling facts from opinions, and spotting what an author wants you to do.
🛠️Grammar GarageSubject-verb agreement, three tenses, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, compound subjects, capitals, and commas.

The learning path

One stop per unit. Filled stops have practice activities today.

1Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. Th2Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning r3Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary.4Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency. Th5Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustai6Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacog7Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an in8Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The studen9Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student recognize10Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses c11Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses12Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre ch13Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student engages in b

Units and standards preview

The knowledge-and-skills strands below are the state's, reproduced from English Language Arts and Reading, Grade 2, Adopted 2017. Open a unit to read each student expectation and jump to the activities that practice it.

1Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.0/5 practiced
  1. (A) listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and answer questions using multi-word responses;
    19 TAC 110.4(b)(1)(A)
  2. (B) follow, restate, and give oral instructions that involve a short, related sequence of actions;
    19 TAC 110.4(b)(1)(B)
  3. (C) share information and ideas that focus on the topic under discussion, speaking clearly at an appropriate pace and using the conventions of language;
    19 TAC 110.4(b)(1)(C)
  4. + 2 more expectations for members
2Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning reading and writing. The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell.21/22 practiced
  1. (A) demonstrate phonological awareness by:
    19 TAC 110.4(b)(2)(A)
    🔤 Sound Play and Spelling
  2. (A.i) producing a series of rhyming words;
    19 TAC 110.4(b)(2)(A)(i)
    🔤 Sound Play and Spelling
  3. (A.ii) distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds in one-syllable and multi- syllable words;
    19 TAC 110.4(b)(2)(A)(ii)
    🔤 Sound Play and Spelling
  4. + 19 more expectations for members

11 more units, 97 expectations, 11 activities

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How to help at home

Have your child read to you for ten minutes, then retell the story in order.
When a new word shows up, look at the parts: prefix, root, ending. Guess first, then check.
Ask why questions about characters: why did she do that, how do you know?

Source: Texas Education Agency, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, 19 TAC §110.4. Curriculum text on this site is reproduced from the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills as published by the Texas Education Agency and codified in Title 19 of the Texas Administrative Code. Baccare is an independent product of Brigade Management, Inc. and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the Texas Education Agency, the State Board of Education, or the Texas Secretary of State. Sources and attribution.

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Course details

  • Grade2nd grade
  • SubjectReading & Writing
  • Standard19 TAC §110.4
  • Units13
  • Expectations97
  • Activities11
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