Learning Expectations
Second Grade

Language Arts

Reading :

• Uses a variety of decoding strategies (for example: letter-sounds, context clues, word chunks, re-reading, and self-correcting)
• Uses a variety of comprehension strategies (for example: using prior knowledge, re-reading, self monitoring, and using context clues)
• Identifies story elements (character, setting, main events, problem, and solution)
• Comprehends and understand the characteristics of a variety of genres (including fairy tales and tall tales)
• Makes text to text, text to self, and text to world connections
• Summarizes main idea and key points (Instructional Only)
• Understands cause and effect relationships (instructional only)

Writing:

• Writes pieces with a beginning, middle, and end that makes sense
• Creative stories
• Short informative reports
• Expressive pieces about own experiences
• Applies the trait of idea in writing
• Applies the trait of organization in writing
• Applies the trait of word choice in writing
• Uses pre-writing strategies (through guided instruction)
• Revises own writing to improve idea and word choice
• Edits own writing to improve capital letters, ending marks, spelling and sentences
• Understands parts of speech (nouns, verbs)
• Writes in complete sentences
• Uses capitalization correctly (beginning of sentences and proper nouns)
• Uses punctuation correctly (period, questions marks, exclamation points)
• Spells high frequency words correctly
• Uses spelling strategies to spell unfamiliar words correctly

Speaking & Listening:

• Speaks clearly to a group
• Follows basic directions
• Comprehends oral communication
• Uses active listening behaviors
• Participates effectively in discussions

Research:

• Uses a variety of informational sources for research (through guided instruction)
• Organizes information during research

Mathematics

Problem Solving:

• Uses a variety of problem solving strategies for real world problems and situations
• Explains mathematical thinking in a variety of ways (orally and with pictures, words, and numbers)

Number Operations and Relationships:

• Understands relationships between numbers and sets (to 999)
• Understands and uses fractions (with simple fractions such as ½, ¼, and ⅛)
• Understands place value (to 3-digits)
• Uses the skill of estimation
• Adds and subtracts whole numbers (2-digit numbers with re-grouping)
• Knows addition and subtraction facts
• Multiplies and divides whole numbers with manipulatives (Instructional Only)
• Knows the relationship between the addition and subtraction
• Selects appropriate operation in problem solving situations

Geometry:

• Understands and recognizes two- and three-dimensional figures in the real world
• Including cubes, cone, sphere, cylinder, and pyramid
• Understands the concepts of spatial sense (lines of symmetry and congruence)
• Understands characteristics of lines (parallel and perpendicular)
• Understands coordinate geometry

Measurement:

• Measures length, height, and width (to nearest inch)
• Measures liquid capacity (cups to pints to quart to gallons)
• Measures weight (to nearest pound)
• Measures time (to five minute interval –digital and analog)
• Measures money (mixed sets of coins to $3.00)
• Calculates perimeter (Instructional Only)

Statistics and Probability:

• Collects, organizes and displays data in bar and pictographs
• Reads and interprets data from bar graphs, pictographs, and tally charts

• Understands that future events are more, less, or equally likely, impossible, or certain to occur
• Conducts guided probability experiments

Algebraic Relationships:

• Solves for a variable in addition and subtraction equations
• Recognizes and extends number patterns and the relationship within them
• Understands a function describes a relationship of one quantity to another quantity when constant change occurs

 Social Studies

Map Skills:

• Creates maps
• Gather information from a variety of sources
• Locates places and features on a variety of maps and globes
• Compass rose, location of North America, USA, Wisconsin, seven continents, four oceans, map key)

A Study of Our Community- De Pere:

• Knows how human beings have changed their local community
• Knows the physical and human features of a location
• Knows how institutions contribute to society
• Knows the role of money
• Understands the concept of needs and wants
• Knows the concepts of goods and services
• Knows the economic roles of various institutions

Citizenship:

• Knows how people participate in civic activity
• Understands individual responsibilities with respect to family, peers, and the community
• Understands how there can be diverse viewpoints on an issue
• Knows the reasons that individuals respond differently to different situations

Self:

• Knows the factors that influence individual learning
• Knows how interactions among people influence individual and group behavior

Cultures of the World:

• Knows ways in which ethnic cultures influence the daily lives of people (Instructional Only)
• Knows how stories, music and other artistic creations are expressions of culture

Important People in History:

• Uses a historical timeline
• Understand the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people in relationship to historical events
• Knows how changes in communication have affected people
• Knows how various sources of information are used to construct an understanding of the past (Instruction Only)

 Science

Dinosaurs:

• Knows how fossils give evidence of past living organisms

Soils:

• Knows the physical properties of soils

• density, ability to hold water, texture, smell, color, and composition

Brain- The Control Center of the Body:

• Knows the nervous system of the human body

• Connection between the brain and the senses and how the brain sends and receives messages throughout the body

Changes:

• Knows that objects can be made of one substance or more than one substance
• Knows that substances react with other substances
• Knows the difference between physical and chemical reactions

Scientists:

• Knows how people contributed to major scientific discoveries

Science Investigations:

• Uses the scientific method to conduct investigations ( P roblem – H ypothesis - E xperiment - O bservation - C onclusion)
• Uses simple science equipment safely and effectively
• Communicates observations and conclusions from scientific investigation
• Asks additional questions that might help focus or further an investigation
• Uses a variety of sources to gather information for science-related questions