Grade 2 Curriculum

• Fluently add and subtract within 20
• Solve addition, subtraction, and multi-step word problems
• Determine whether a group of objects is even or odd
• Use arrays and repeated addition
• Read, write, and count numbers to 1,000
• Skip count by 2s, 5s, 10s, and 100s
• Apply place value concepts
• Apply number sense concepts
• Add and subtract within 1000
• Explain addition and subtraction strategies
• Mentally find numbers that are 10 more/less and 100 more/less than a given number
• Select and use appropriate tools to measure length
• Estimate lengths of objects
• Compare measurements of objects
• Solve measurement word problems
• Solve money word problems
• Tell and write time to the nearest 5 minutes
• Organize, represent, and interpret data using graphs and line plots
• Identify, draw, and describe 2-D shapes (triangle, quadrilaterals, pentagon, hexagon)
• Identify and describe 3-D shapes (sphere, cylinder, cone, pyramid, cube, prism)
• Find the area of rectangles
• Apply fraction concepts (halves, thirds, fourths/quarters)

Informational Text

• Identify the main idea
• Ask/answer questions about text
• Use text features to locate information
• Determine meanings of multi-meaning words
• Compare and contrast points from two texts on the same topic

Literature

• Recount stories and determine the message, lesson, or moral
• Answer who, what, where, when, and how questions
• Describe how characters respond to events and challenges
• Notice differences in point of view
• Describe story structure
• Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story

• Write routinely over extended times
• Write informative texts that introduce the topic, show ideas clearly, and develop topics with facts
• Write opinion pieces that identify the topic and support the opinion with organized reasons connected to the opinion
• Write narratives to develop real or imagined events that establish a situation, introduce a narrator and characters, and include thoughts and feelings to describe events
• Use words to describe event order
• Respond to literature
• Group information and provide concluding statements
• Choose words/phrases for effect
• Apply conventions of grammar, capitalization (proper nouns), punctuation (commas, apostrophes), and spelling
• Strengthen writing by revising and editing
• Use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing
• Participate in research and gather information from sources

• Distinguish long and short vowels
• Decode 2-syllable words with long vowels and words with prefixes and suffixes
• Read high frequency words and irregularly spelled words

• Participate in conversations with peers and adults
• Ask and answer questions
• Tell a story or experience
• Speak in complete sentences with appropriate English conventions

• Matter
• Earth changes
• Plants • Environments 

• View and discuss historic and contemporary works of art
• Interpret meaning in works of art
• Communicate ideas and what is observed and imagined through images and objects created
• Recognize the difference between 2-D and 3-D works of art
• Investigate architecture found in the community and world
• Explore artistic problem solving
• Share and discuss artwork

• Songs using So, Mi, La, Do
• Melody
• Reading rhythmic patterns and symbols
• Rhythmic and melodic ostinato patterns
• Instrument families
• Storytelling through music

• Using the Super 3 Research Process
• Knowing when to give credit to a creator
• Using search tools to locate, evaluate, and use sources of information
• Staying safe online

• Cooperation with others and competition against self
• Good sportsmanship
• Movement skills (locomotor, spatial awareness, coordination, chasing, fleeing)
• Team skills (dribbling, scoring, throwing, catching, passing, striking)
• Components of fitness
• Track and field events
• Cooperative games and activities