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.
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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
(A) listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and answer questions using multi-word responses;
19 TAC 110.4(b)(1)(A)
(B) follow, restate, and give oral instructions that involve a short, related sequence of actions;
19 TAC 110.4(b)(1)(B)
(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)
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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.0/22 practiced
(A) demonstrate phonological awareness by:
19 TAC 110.4(b)(2)(A)
(A.i) producing a series of rhyming words;
19 TAC 110.4(b)(2)(A)(i)
(A.ii) distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds in one-syllable and multi- syllable words;
19 TAC 110.4(b)(2)(A)(ii)
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9 more units, 94 expectations, 2 activities
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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.