2nd Grade Checklist

English Language Arts
Reading

Phonemic Awareness:
[ ] Orally identify, produce, and manipulate the individual sounds (phonemes) in one-syllable words.
[ ] Blend sounds to form one-syllable words.
[ ] Segment one-syllable words into their individual sounds.

Phonics:
[ ] Decode regular one-syllable words with common spelling patterns.
[ ] Decode multi-syllable words.
[ ] Recognize and read high-frequency words, including irregularly spelled words.

Fluency:
[ ] Read grade-level text with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.

Vocabulary:
[ ] Use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
[ ] Identify and use synonyms and antonyms.
[ ] Understand and use compound words, contractions, and possessives.
[ ] Comprehension of Fiction:
[ ] Describe the main idea and supporting details of a story.
[ ] Describe characters, setting, and major events in a story.
[ ] Retell stories, including key details.
[ ] Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
[ ] Comprehension of Nonfiction:
[ ] Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
[ ] Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
[ ] Use text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries) to locate key facts or information.

Writing

Writing Process:
[ ] Plan, draft, revise, and edit writing.
[ ] Use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing.

Types of Writing:
[ ] Write opinion pieces that introduce the topic, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide a concluding statement.
[ ] Write informative/explanatory texts that name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide a concluding statement.
[ ] Write narratives that 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.

Grammar and Usage:
[ ] Use collective nouns (e.g., group).
[ ] Form and use frequently occurring irregular plural nouns (e.g., feet, children).
[ ] Use reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves).
[ ] Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, told).
[ ] Use adjectives and adverbs correctly.
[ ] Capitalization, Punctuation, and Spelling:
[ ] Capitalize holidays, product names, and geographic names.
[ ] Use commas in greetings and closings of letters.
[ ] Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.
[ ] Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage -> badge; boy -> boil).

Mathematics
Number and Number Sense
[ ] Read, write, and identify the place and value of each digit in a three-digit numeral.
[ ] Compare two whole numbers up to 999 using symbols (>, <, or =).
[ ] Order a set of whole numbers up to 999 from least to greatest and greatest to least.
[ ] Round two-digit numbers to the nearest ten.
[ ] Identify the ordinal positions first through twentieth.
[ ] Identify and represent fractions (halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, eighths, and tenths) as parts of a whole and parts of a set.

Computation and Estimation
[ ] Recall addition facts with sums to 20 or less and the corresponding subtraction facts.
[ ] Estimate and determine the sum or difference of two whole numbers.
[ ] Create and solve single-step and two-step practical problems involving addition and subtraction.
[ ] Recognize and use the relationship between addition and subtraction to solve problems.

Measurement and Geometry
Measurement:
[ ] Use a ruler to measure length to the nearest inch and centimeter.
[ ] Estimate and measure length, weight/mass, and liquid volume.
[ ] Tell and write time to the nearest five minutes, using analog and digital clocks.
[ ] Determine the value of a collection of coins and one-dollar bills.
[ ] Read temperature to the nearest 10 degrees on a Fahrenheit and Celsius thermometer.

Geometry:
[ ] Identify, describe, compare, and contrast plane and solid geometric figures (circles/spheres, squares/cubes, triangles/pyramids, rectangles/rectangular prisms).
[ ] Identify and create symmetrical figures.

Probability and Statistics
[ ] Read, construct, and interpret picture graphs and bar graphs.
[ ] Analyze data from picture and bar graphs.

Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
[ ] Identify, describe, extend, and create a variety of patterns.
[ ] Demonstrate an understanding of equality by recognizing that the equal sign represents a balance between two sides of an equation.

Science
Scientific and Engineering Practices
[ ] Ask questions and make predictions based on observations.
[ ] Plan and conduct simple investigations.
[ ] Make and record observations.
[ ] Analyze and interpret data.
[ ] Use and construct simple models.
[ ] Communicate information in a variety of ways.

Life Processes and Living Systems
[ ] Plant and Animal Needs and Life Cycles:
[ ] Understand that plants and animals have basic needs and life cycles.
[ ] Investigate and understand the sequential stages of the life cycles of a butterfly and a flowering plant.
[ ] Habitats and Interdependence:
[ ] Understand that animals and plants live in specific habitats and are interdependent.
[ ] Investigate and understand that living things are part of a system.

Earth and Space Systems
Weather and Seasons:
[ ] Investigate and understand that weather and seasonal changes affect plants, animals, and their surroundings.
[ ] Measure, record, and graph weather data.

Earth’s Resources:
[ ] Understand that plants are a resource that provides food, clothing, and shelter.

Matter and Energy
[ ] Properties of Matter:
[ ] Investigate and understand that matter has properties and can exist in different states (solid, liquid, gas).

Physical and Chemical Changes:
[ ] Investigate and understand that matter can undergo simple physical and chemical changes.

Forces and Motion:
[ ] Investigate and understand that pushes and pulls can change the motion of an object.

Social Studies
History
[ ] Describe the lives of historical figures in American history (e.g., George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr.).
[ ] Describe the contributions of ancient Greece and Rome.
[ ] Recognize the symbols and practices of the United States that represent American constitutional democracy (e.g., the American flag, the Pledge of Allegiance).

Geography
[ ] Locate the United States, Virginia, the seven continents, and the five oceans on a world map and globe.
[ ] Use maps, globes, and other geographic tools to locate and describe places.
[ ] Understand the concept of regions and identify the major regions of the United States.

Civics
Citizenship:
[ ] Understand the responsibilities of a good citizen.
[ ] Recognize that communities have rules and laws.

Government:
[ ] Identify the roles of government at the local, state, and national levels.
[ ] Understand that the President of the United States is the leader of the nation.

Economics
Scarcity and Economic Choice:
[ ] Understand the concept of scarcity (that people have wants and needs and that resources are limited).
[ ] Explain that people make choices because they cannot have everything they want.

Goods and Services:
[ ] Distinguish between goods and services.

Producers and Consumers:
[ ] Identify producers and consumers.