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First Trimester Benchmarks



For your information, here are first trimester benchmarks for second graders. These align to the common core state standards and are taken into consideration for determining student progress in the fall trimester.

Second Grade Benchmarks
aligned with the Common Core

1st Trimester

MATH

  • Represent and solve word problems involving addition and subtraction.
  • Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions
            e.g., by using drawings and equations with a    symbol   for the unknown number to represent the problem.  
  • Add within a sum of 20 using mental strategies.
  • Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20)  has an odd or even number of members.
  • 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.
  • Count within 100; skip-count by 5s, and 10s
  • Read and write numbers to 999 using base-ten numerals, and number names.
  • Compare numbers under 100 using >, = , and <  symbols.
  • Fluently add within 20, using strategies based on place value, and properties of operations
  • Solve word problems involving dollar bills,
           quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using   
           $ and ¢ symbols appropriately

 Speaking and Listening

  • Participate in conversations about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

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

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

  • Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.
Language Arts   
  • Identify and analyze main character
  • Identify story structure, (beginning, middle and end).
  • Demonstrate understanding of characters and setting from title, pictures, and/or other text features
  • Use phonics knowledge to read unknown or nonsense words
  • Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.
  • Read aloud with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. (grade level benchmarks)
  • Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
  • Write a story including characters, setting, sequenced events and closure.
  • Capitalize beginnings of sentences, dates and names of people.
  • Use appropriate end marks in writing.
  • Use commas in dates.
  • Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g.,cage → badge; boy → boil).

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