Courses of Study : English Language Arts (Grade 2)

Reading Standards for Literature
Key Ideas and Details
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1 ) Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. [RL.2.1]

a. Infer the main idea and supporting details in narrative texts. (Alabama)


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.1- Ask and answer who, what, and where questions about a story. ELA.AAS.2.1a- Identify the main idea of a story.


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2 ) Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral. [RL.2.2]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.2- Identify the central idea of fables and folk tales to determine the lessons and morals.


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3 ) Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. [RL.2.3]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.3- Answer questions about the characters and events in a story.


Craft and Structure
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4 ) Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. [RL.2.4]

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5 ) Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action. [RL.2.5]

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6 ) Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud. [RL.2.6]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.6- Identify which character is speaking in a story at different points in the story.


Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
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7 ) Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. [RL.2.7]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.7- Use an illustration to identify a character setting, or plot of a story.


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8 ) Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures. [RL.2.9]

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
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9 ) By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the Grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. [RL.2.10]

Reading Standards for Informational Text
Key Ideas and Details
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10 ) Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. [RI.2.1]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.10- Answer who, what, and where questions to demonstrate understanding of an informational text.


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11 ) Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. [RI.2.2]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.11- Identify the main idea of an informational text; identify important details in an informational text.


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12 ) Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. [RI.2.3]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.12- Identify events or steps in a historical, scientific, or technical text.


Craft and Structure
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13 ) Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a Grade 2 topic or subject area. [RI.2.4]

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14 ) Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently. [RI.2.5]

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15 ) Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe. [RI.2.6]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.15- Identify the main purpose or topic of an informational text.


Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
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16 ) Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text. [RI.2.7]

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17 ) Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text. [RI.2.8]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.17- Identify multiple reasons an author gives to support a key point in an informational text.


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18 ) Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. [RI.2.9]

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
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19 ) By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the Grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. [RI.2.10]

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
Phonics and Word Recognition
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20 ) Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. [RF.2.3]

a. Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words. [RF.2.3a]

b. Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams. [RF.2.3b]

c. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels. [RF.2.3c]

d. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes. [RF.2.3d]

e. Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences. [RF.2.3e]

f. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. [RF.2.3f]

Fluency
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21 ) Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. [RF.2.4]

a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding. [RF.2.4a]

b. Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. [RF.2.4b]

c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. [RF.2.4c]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.21- Read and comprehend a text of 75 words with or without pictures.
ELA.AAS.2.21a- Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.


Writing Standards
Text Types and Purposes
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22 ) Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section. [W.2.1]

a. Write free verse poetry to express ideas. (Alabama)

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23 ) Write informative or explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section. [W.2.2]

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24 ) Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure. [W.2.3]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.24- Compose narrative texts by introducing characters or a narrator and organizing events in sequence.


Production and Distribution of Writing
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25 ) With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing. [W.2.5]

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26 ) With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. [W.2.6]

Research to Build and Present Knowledge
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27 ) Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations). [W.2.7]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.27- Participate in research projects.


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28 ) Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. [W.2.8]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.28- Recall experiences to answer a question.


Speaking and Listening Standards
Comprehension and Collaboration
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29 ) Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about Grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. [SL.2.1]

a. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion). [SL.2.1a]

b. Build on others' talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others. [SL.2.1b]

c. Ask for clarification and further explanation as needed about the topics and texts under discussion. [SL.2.1c]

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30 ) Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. [SL.2.2]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.30- Ask and answer questions about a text read aloud or information presented orally through other media.


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31 ) Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue. [SL.2.3]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.31- Ask or answer questions about information presented orally.


Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
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32 ) Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences. [SL.2.4]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.32- Tell a story or report on a topic or a personal experience.


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33 ) Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. [SL.2.5]

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34 ) Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. (See Grade 2 Language standards 35 and 37 for specific expectations.) [SL.2.6]

Language Standards
Conventions of Standard English
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35 ) Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. [L.2.1]

a. Use collective nouns (e.g., group). [L.2.1a]

b. Form and use frequently occurring irregular plural nouns (e.g., feet, children, teeth, mice, fish). [L.2.1b]

c. Use reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves). [L.2.1c]

d. Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told). [L.2.1d]

e. Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified. [L.2.1e]

f. Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy). [L.2.1f]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.35- Demonstrate standard English grammar when writing or speaking.
ELA.AAS.2.35a- Use nouns and verbs when writing or speaking.
ELA.AAS.2.35b- Use plural nouns when writing or speaking.
ELA.AAS.2.35c- Identify and use personal pronouns when writing or speaking.
ELA.AAS.2.35e- Use adjectives when writing or speaking.


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36 ) Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. [L.2.2]

a. Capitalize holidays, product names, and geographic names. [L.2.2a]

b. Use commas in greetings and closings of letters. [L.2.2b]

c. Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives. [L.2.2c]

d. Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil). [L.2.2d]

e. Form uppercase and lowercase letters in cursive. (Alabama)

f. Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings. [L.2.2e]

Knowledge of Language
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37 ) Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. [L.2.3]

a. Compare formal and informal uses of English. [L.2.3a]

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
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38 ) 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. [L.2.4]

a. Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. [L.2.4a]

b. Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix is added to a known word (e.g., happy/unhappy, tell/retell). [L.2.4b]

c. Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., addition, additional). [L.2.4c]

d. Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words (e.g., birdhouse, lighthouse, housefly; bookshelf, notebook, bookmark). [L.2.4d]

e. Use glossaries and beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases. [L.2.4e]


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
ELA.AAS.2.38-With prompting and support, 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.
ELA.AAS.2.38a- With prompting and support, use context clues to determine the meaning of a word or phrase in a sentence.
ELA.AAS.2.38e- With prompting and support, use a dictionary, glossary, and/or digital resources to find the meanings of words.


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39 ) Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. [L.2.5]

a. Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe foods that are spicy or juicy). [L.2.5a]

b. Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (e.g., toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (e.g., thin, slender, skinny, scrawny). [L.2.5b]

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40 ) Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy). [L.2.6]