For your information, here are second trimester benchmarks for second graders. These align to the common core state standards and are taken into consideration for determining student progress in the winter trimester.
2nd Trimester Second Grade Benchmarks
Language Arts
- Ask and answer appropriate and relevant questions
- Read aloud with accuracy and fluency ( grade level benchmark)
- Recognize and produce rhyming words
- Use phonics knowledge to read unknown or nonsense words
- Demonstrate understanding of genre/plot of story from title and pictures and/or other text features (captions,graphs)
- Retell a story’s beginning, middle and end
- Identify non-fiction vs. fiction
- Know and use text features (Table of Contents, glossary, bold prints)
- Identify and analyze main character
- Explain how specific images contribute to and clarify a text
- Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text
- Capitalize beginnings of sentences and proper nouns
- Use appropriate end marks in writing
- Create complete sentences
- In daily writing spell words that use common spelling patterns
- Write a story including characters, setting sequence of events and closure
- Include details in writing to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings
Math
- Count by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s from 2 digit numbers
- Compare 2 and 3 digit numbers
- Mentally add facts to 20
- Fluently add within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction
- Mentally add or subtract 10 or 100 from a given number
- Use appropriate operation to solve number stories (+ -)
- Estimate and measure to the nearest centimeter and inch
- Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes and measure and estimate lengths in standard units
- Understand and use a calendar
- Tell time to the half hour
- Create and read simple graphs
- Show coins/count money up to $1.00
- Represent whole numbers as lengths from 0 on a number line diagram with equally spaced points corresponding to the numbers 0, 1, 2, ..., and represent whole-number sums and differences within 100 on a number line diagram
- Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones
- Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members, e.g., by pairing objects or counting them by 2s; write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends
- Read and write numbers to 999 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form
- Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations
