Second Grade at Shaker Lane - Room 202

For your information, here are the third trimester benchmarks for second graders. These align to the common core state standards and are taken into consideration for determining student progress in the spring trimester. 3rd Trimester Second Grade Benchmarks LANGUAGE ARTS Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text and the main purpose of a text. Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text. Explain how specific images contribute to and clarify a text. Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text. Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable ...

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 procedu...

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 t...

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 th...