Literacy Development

In Reading, most second grade children:                                              

• develop the skill of understanding main ideas, supporting details, cause and effect, and sequence of events,

• read to follow written directions,

• further develop and extend their ability to make predictions, inferences, and draw relevant conclusions,

• extend their knowledge of literary genre to include biographies,

• extend vocabulary through reading experiences and the study of word structure,

• develop the ability to use different strategies to identify unknown words, i.e. structural analysis, the sense of sentence, the letter-sound association,

• identify base words in words which contain affixes, prefixes, and suffixes,

• identify compound words, synonyms, and antonyms,

• extend sight vocabulary.

In Writing, most second grade children: 

• write simple sentences containing subject, verb, and descriptive detail,

• add written descriptive details to simple sentences,

• write a paragraph revealing who, what, when, where, and how,

• learn to write a cause/effect paragraph,

• complete research projects in the content areas.

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