Grade 2 ELA Idaho Standards

Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds.

Reverse phonemes in spoken one-syllable words (e.g., reverse initial and final consonants in the word "pat" and say the resulting word).

Demonstrate automaticity in the deletion and substitution of phonemes in multi-syllable spoken words and naming of resulting words.

Use knowledge of grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

Know spelling-sound correspondences for common short and long vowel teams (e.g., head, hook, boat, weigh) including diphthongs (e.g., toil, cloud).

Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long and short vowels.

Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes (e.g., un-, dis-, -ful, -less).

Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.

Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words (e.g., was, again, been), including silent letter combinations.

Demonstrate command of the conventions of English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., felt, told, went).

Use adjectives and adverbs and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.

Form and use regular and frequently occurring irregular plural nouns (e.g., men, teeth, fish).

Recognize that the names of things can also be the names of actions (fish, dream, run).

Use reflexive pronouns (e.g., yourself, herself).

Distinguish between complete and incomplete sentences and recognize and use correct word order in written sentences.

Produce and expand complete simple and compound sentences.

Demonstrate command of the conventions of English punctuation and capitalization when writing and reading aloud to create meaning.

Commas in greetings and closing of letters.

Apostrophes to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.

Capitalize holidays, names, and places.

Use knowledge of spelling in writing.

Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).

Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings.

Engage in collaborative discussions about grade-level topics and texts with peers by gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others closely and building on others' ideas, and asking for clarification and further explanation to ensure understanding.

Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says to clarify by gathering additional information or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.

Tell a story or retell an experience with relevant facts and descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.

Digital Communications begins in grade 3.

Independently and proficiently read and comprehend texts representing a balance of genres, cultures, and perspectives, that exhibit complexity at the lower end of the grades 2–3 band.

Regularly engage in reading and listening to a series of texts, independently, with peers, or with modest support related to the topics and themes being studied to build knowledge and vocabulary.

Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in grade-level texts heard or read.

Read grade-level text with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression to support comprehension in successive readings.

Use evidence from literature to demonstrate understanding grade-level texts.

Identify the central message, lesson, or moral of stories (including fables and folktales) from diverse cultures heard or read.

Describe how characters in stories heard or read respond to major events and challenges.

Describe the overall structure of stories heard or read, including identifying how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

Identify different perspectives of characters in stories heard or read.

Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (heard or read) by different authors or from different cultures.

Use evidence from nonfiction works to demonstrate understanding of grade-level texts.

Identify the central idea of texts heard or read.

Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific concepts, or steps in technical procedures in texts.

Describe the overall structure of nonfiction texts heard or read, including identifying how the beginning introduces information and the ending sums up the information.

Describe how authors use facts and reasons to support specific points in texts.

Compare and contrast the most important points presented in two texts on the same topic.

With support as needed, conduct short research tasks to take some action or make informal presentations by gathering information from experiences and provided sources (including read alouds), and organizing information using graphic organizers or other aids.

Read or listen to a series of texts organized around a variety of conceptually related topics to build knowledge about the world. (These texts should be at a range of complexity levels so students can read the texts independently, with peers, or with modest support.)

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.

Use sentence-level context as clues to the meaning of words or phrases.

Determine the meaning of new words formed when known prefixes (e.g., safe/unsafe, like/dislike) and suffixes (e.g., beauty/beautiful, light/lightness) are added to a known word.

Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., pain/painful, help/helpless).

Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words (e.g., backpack, backyard; flashlight, lighthouse).

Use glossaries and beginning dictionaries, print or digital, to clarify the meaning of words and phrases.

Determine how words and phrases provide meaning and nuance to texts.

Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe weather that is freezing or windy).

Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (e.g., toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (e.g., hot, sizzling, blazing).

Describe how words and phrases (e.g., rhymes, alliteration) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

Acquire and use general academic and content-specific words gained through conversations, and reading and listening to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe situations with specificity (e.g., When other kids are acting silly, that makes me feel giddy). Use these words in discussions and writing.

Develop flexibility in writing by routinely engaging in the production of writing shorter and longer pieces for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. This could include reflections, descriptions, letters, and poetry, etc.

Write arguments that express an opinion supported by details and reasons and provide a concluding sentence.

Write informational texts that state a focus and support the focus with facts and details and provide a concluding sentence.

Write personal or fictional stories that recount a short sequence of events, include details to develop the characters or experiences, and provide sense of closure.

Employing clear and coherent organizational structures begins in grade 3.

With support from adults and peers, strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.

Form letters correctly with functional speed. Space words and sentences properly so that writing can be read easily by another person.

With support, use keyboarding skills to produce and publish writing.

Phonics and Decoding

Range of Writing

Reading Comprehension

Reading Fluency

Grammar and Conventions

Oral and Digital Communications Strand

Digital Communications

Oral Communications

Phonemic Awareness

Grammar and Usage

Deep Reading on Topics to Build Knowledge

Mechanics

Research Strand

Writing Strand

Handwriting and Keyboarding

Text Complexity

Foundational Reading

Nonfiction Text

Literature

Word Building

Academic Vocabulary

Inquiry Process to Build, Present, and Use Knowledge

Volume of Reading to Build Knowledge

Vocabulary Development

Textual Evidence

Follow Oral Directions

Understand Social and Academic Conversations

Understand Key Ideas of Information Presented Orally

Ask and Answer Questions

Communicate Information Orally

Retell Stories or Experiences

Use Text Features to Locate Information

Use Graphic Features to Support Understanding of Text

Decode Words Using Phonological Awareness Skills

Decode Words Using Knowledge of Syllables

Decode and Determine Meaning of Words Using Knowledge of Word Parts

Identify and Use Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms

Read With Fluency

Follow Written Directions

Identify Topic in Text

Describe Characters, Settings, and Plots

Plan, Write, Revise, and Edit a Draft

Write Narratives

Write Reports

Spell Words Correctly

Apply Capitalization and Punctuation Rules

Use Grammatical Forms

Ask and answer simple questions using a few words.

Writing

Tell a brief experience or story in response to prompts using words and phrases.

Respond orally to information shared by others using coherent sentences.

Complete simple sentence frames and identify nouns and verbs with prompting.

Ask and answer questions using detailed sentences with some errors.

Follow one-step written directions represented by signs, symbols, and one or two words.

Reading Process

Decode and determine meaning of words using knowledge of common base words and simple prefixes, suffixes, and contractions. [N/A for K]

Decode words using knowledge of chunks or small words. [N/A for K]

Use grade-level text features to locate information in a book or reading selection. [N/A for K]

Follow two-step written directions. [N/A for K]

Identify and use common antonyms and synonyms to determine the meaning of words. [N/A for K]

Identify and use subject-verb-object order in very simple sentences with some errors. [N/A for K]

Identify common, simple antonyms and synonyms.

Use the title and illustrations to aid comprehension of information in a book or reading selection.

Spell high-frequency words correctly and apply basic spelling rules to spell other words. [N/A for K]

Tell an experience or story in a logical sequence using detailed sentences without prompting.

Draw a picture for a given topic.

Follow simple one-step oral directions.

Identify and use synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms to determine the meaning of words. [N/A for K]

Follow multi-step oral directions.

Spell some high-frequency words correctly and use invented spelling for other words.

Identify the topic in brief text with illustrations by drawing a picture or using gestures or words orally.

Fill in a prewriting organizer, and, with support, write a draft of a few simple sentences that includes a main idea; edit the draft for beginning capitalization and ending punctuation. [N/A for K]

Identify and describe the characters, identify the setting, and retell the basic plot in a story.

Read familiar high frequency words fluently.

Writing Conventions

Identify cover and title of a book; hold book right side up and turn pages in the correct direction.

Identify the characters and main event of a story with picture clues, using gestures or words in response to prompting.

Ask and answer questions using detailed sentences with few errors.

Name some upper and lowercase letters.

Use a capital letter for the first word of a sentence, familiar proper nouns, and the pronoun I; use a period at the end of a sentence. [N/A for K]

Write brief explanations of observations of real objects, persons, places, events, or processes, using a few simple sentences. [N/A for K]

Repeat spoken words with one or two syllables.

Respond appropriately to simple social conversations on mostly familiar topics with contextual support.

Identify a few key ideas of brief, mostly concrete information presented orally with visual support.

Follow simple one-step written directions supported by visual clues.

Describe information in simple graphs, charts, and diagrams. [N/A for K]

Decode and determine meaning of words using knowledge of common base words and simple prefixes and suffixes. [N/A for K]

Draw a picture and respond to oral prompts using gestures or words.

Listening Comprehension

Draw and label a series of pictures and respond to oral prompts about observations of real objects, persons, places, events, or processes using phrases.

Express basic needs and feelings using a few words.

Respond appropriately to social and simple classroom conversations on mostly familiar, concrete topics.

Read grade-level text at near grade-level fluency. [N/A for K]

Identify orally the topic in text with illustrations by using simple sentences.

Decode new words using knowledge of common onsets and rimes. [N/A for K]

Identify initial, middle, and final sounds in single-syllable words.

Label a series of pictures or fill in a simple prewriting organizer for a given topic with support, using familiar words and phrases.

Spell high-frequency words correctly. [N/A for K]

Identify and use nouns and verbs in simple sentences. [N/A for K]

Identify the number of syllables in spoken words.

Write brief narratives based on personal experiences, using a sentence starter template with prompting.

Read grade-level text at grade-level fluency. [N/A for K]

Identify key ideas of information presented orally.

Read a few familiar, high frequency words fluently.

Identify a key idea of very brief, concrete information presented orally with visual support.

Use grade-level capitalization and punctuation rules with some errors. [N/A for K]

Spell name and a few high-frequency words correctly and start to use invented spelling for other words.

Respond to prompting about an experience or story using gestures and words.

Identify the characters, setting, and main event of a story with picture clues, using words or phrases orally in response to prompting.

Follow complex one-step written directions. [N/A for K]

Respond appropriately to brief, very simple social conversations on familiar topics with contextual support.

Copy name and high-frequency words with some accuracy.

Retell or paraphrase information that has been shared by others, using coherent sentences.

Identify the topic in near grade-level text and sequence information in a logical order. [N/A for K]

Write brief explanations of observations of real objects, persons, places, events, or processes, using more detailed sentences. [N/A for K]

Speaking

Identify and use subject-verb-object order and subject-verb agreement in simple sentences with few errors. [N/A for K]

Express basic needs using gestures or words.

Follow two-step oral directions.

Match vowel and consonant sounds to all letters; identify initial and final sounds in single-syllable words.

Ask and answer questions using phrases or simple sentences.

Use grade-level capitalization and punctuation rules with few errors. [N/A for K]

Follow simple one-step written directions.

Reading

Name upper and lowercase letters; match vowel and consonant sounds to some letters.

Speaking Applications

Decode and determine the meaning of words by using common inflectional endings (e.g., -ed, -ing, and plural -s). [N/A for K]

Identify words, sentences, and parts of a book (e.g., cover, title).

Draw and label a series of pictures and respond to oral prompts using words and phrases.

Respond appropriately to classroom conversations on mostly concrete topics.

Identify common, simple antonym pairs (e.g., hot/cold).

Reading Comprehension

Identify information in familiar, simple bar graphs or diagrams.

Respond appropriately to classroom conversations on concrete and abstract topics.

Identify a few key ideas of concrete and some abstract information presented orally with some visual support.

Use basic word patterns and/or word families to decode words. [N/A for K]

Tell an experience or story in a logical sequence using simple sentences without prompting.

Identify information from pictures and symbols in signs.

Use information from simple graphs, charts, and diagrams. [N/A for K]

Identify the number of syllables in familiar spoken words.

Writing Applications

Read simple, familiar words.

Write narratives based on personal experiences that contain a main idea, using a few simple sentences. [N/A for K]

Identify orally the topic in brief text with illustrations by drawing a picture and using phrases.

Draw and label a picture and respond to oral prompts about observations of real objects, persons, places, events, or processes using words or phrases.

Complete simple familiar Cloze sentences with a noun or verb.

Identify common antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms. [N/A for K]

Write narratives based on personal experiences that contain a main idea, using more detailed sentences. [N/A for K]

Writing Process

Identify information in simple graphs, charts, and diagrams. [N/A for K]

Tell an experience or story in a logical sequence with some prompting, using phrases and simple sentences.

Share information orally using simple sentences.

Ask and answer familiar, very simple questions using gestures or words.

Identify prewriting strategies and format; write and revise a draft that includes a main idea and details, and edit the draft for grade-level writing conventions. [N/A for K]

Listening

Fill in a prewriting organizer, write a draft that includes a main idea and some details, make basic revisions, and edit the draft for some writing conventions. [N/A for K]

Read regular and irregular sight words fluently.

Copy familiar words, including words with capital letters.

Identify the characters, setting, and beginning, middle, and end of a story with picture clues, using simple sentences orally in response to prompting.

Follow simple two-step oral directions.

Identify the topic in grade-level text and sequence information in a logical order. [N/A for K]

Use capital letters in first name and other familiar proper nouns.

Write brief explanations of observations of real objects, persons, places, events, or processes using a sentence starter template with prompting. [N/A for K]

Read and determine the meaning of simple, familiar words.