Common Core State Standards

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. (See grade 2 Language standards 1 and 3 here for specific expectations.)

Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.

Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.

Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.

Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.

Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.

Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.