RSU 5 Standards and Performance Indicators
Grade 2
Habits of Work
Respect
- Respect: respect for the ideas, feelings, and property of others
Preparedness
- Preparedness: timeliness, organization, homework completion
Engagement
- Engagement: participation, interpersonal involvement, group-work
Determination
- Determination: ability to self-assess; persistence, effective use of feedback
Reading
Foundational Skills
Phonics and Word Recognition
- Decodes by applying grade level phonics and word analysis skills
- Reads grade-appropriate high frequency words by sight
Fluency
- Reads grade level texts fluently with appropriate rate and expression
Writing Production
- Handwrites with appropriate alignment and size, form, neatness and spacing
Spelling
- Spells many long vowel pattern words correctly
Narrative Reading
Comprehends Stories
- Retell stories, including key details, such as setting and plot
- Determines the central message, lesson or moral
- Identifies characters' points of view and how they respond to challenges
- Compares and contrasts two or more versions of the same story
Informational Reading
Comprehends Informational Text
- Identifies the main topics throughout a multi-paragraph piece
- Determines the meaning of unknown words in context
- Uses various text features to locate key facts or information
- Compares and contrasts important points within two texts on the same topic
Writing
Narrative Writing
Structure
- Writing is organized according to purpose with a beginning, middle, and end
Development
- Pieces are elaborated to include a variety of details, talk, and action
Conventions
- Spelling, punctuation, handwriting
Informational Writing
Structure
- Writing teaches some important points about a subject, includes transition words, each part tells different information about the topic.
Development
- Writing includes different kinds of information such as facts, definitions, details and attempts to include expert words.
Conventions
- Spelling, punctuation, handwriting
Opinion Writing
Structure
- Writing includes an opinion identifying likes and dislikes and provides reasons.
- Pieces have different parts; and a lot of lines for each part.
Development
- Writing includes at least two reasons and at least a few sentences about each one.
Conventions
- Spelling, punctuation, handwriting
Speaking and Listening
Comprehension and Collaboration
- Participates in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
- Follows agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listens to others with care, speaks one at a time about the topic and text under discussion).
- Builds on others' talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others.
- Asks for clarification and further explanation as needed about the topics and texts under discussion.
- Recounts or describes key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
- Asks and answers questions about what a speaker is saying in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
- Tells a story or recounts an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaks audibly in coherent sentences.
- Creates audio recordings of stories or poems; adds drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
- Produces complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.
Math
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Solves addition and subtraction problems within 100
- Adds and subtracts within 20 using mental math strategies
- Uses equal groups to solve multiplication problems
Number and Operations in Base Ten
- Understands place value
- Uses place value to add and subtract
Measurement and Data
- Measures and estimates length in standard units
- Tells and writes time
- Finds the value of coins and bills
- Represents and interprets data
Geometry
- Reasons with shapes and their attributes
Communication and Reasoning
- Demonstrates Standards for Mathematical Practices
Science
Demonstrates Understanding of Science Content
Demonstrates Scientific Practices
Social Studies
Demonstrates understanding of social studies content
Applies social studies processes, knowledge and skills
Music
- Singing
- Playing Instruments
- Steady Beat
- Listening
Physical Education
- Participates in physical fitness activities
- Demonstrates a variety of movement and balance skills
- Identifies rules for physical education activities
Art
- Demonstrates understanding of art concepts
- Demonstrates creative problem solving
- Demonstrates art skills
Technology
- Demonstrates understanding of concepts taught