To answer the question, “What was the first message Charlotte wove into her web to help Wilbur?” your child may remember that is was “Some Pig,” but showing evidence is pretty literal: it means your child should flip through the pages and find the words - or the picture - to point out the answer. Related: Watch our Milestone video Does your 2nd grader read to learn like this? Show me the evidence!įor second graders, hunting for evidence means finding - and literally pointing to - answers to questions in text and pictures. Or your second grader looking up duck-billed platypuses on the National Geographic Kids website and using the navigation to find information for her report.
What do all these standards really look like? It might be your 7-year-old changing voices when reading Matilda to show characters’ different points of view. Cinderella versus Ella Enchanted, or civil rights as explained by a person versus a description in a text book).įinally, your second grader should learn to use a table of contents, glossary, and website navigation menus and icons to find information. Comparing two or more versions or accounts of the same story (e.g.Understanding that different characters, narrators, and authors tell stories from different points of view.Recognizing a book’s structure and how the beginning introduces what comes next and how the ending concludes the writing.Describing how characters respond to events and challenges.Being able to retell stories in a way that covers the central message or lesson.Reading quietly and aloud with enough accuracy, expression, and speed to support understanding.Key skills that’ll help your second grader build their knowledge bank: Think of it like using reading comprehension skills to build a knowledge bank: with every poem, story, passage, or book they read, there’s a main point, message, or key fact (or two) that your child learns, relates to their experiences or prior knowledge, and “banks” for future use. It’s important that kids learn big ideas from every book they read and relate that information to what they already know. Related: See our list of challenging books for 2nd graders. This year, the expectation is that second graders should get all the help they need with these texts, while next year they’ll ideally need less assistance from adults. In second and third grades, children are challenged to read text aimed at grades 2 and 3. Second graders split their time between fiction and nonfiction. Related: Watch our Milestone video Does your 2nd grader read smoothly like this? Exploring fiction and nonfiction When reading aloud, kids need to read grade-level text with expression and refine their delivery with each reading. Words with letters that don’t make their usual sounds, like said.)Īs for fluency, second graders need to read silently with enough accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. Second graders also need to recognize grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words, too. redo, retell) and use base words they know, such as add, as a clue to decoding new words, such as addition or additional. table, because, spider, open, and music) and decode words with common prefixes like un- (e.g. They should also decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels (e.g. ai in aid, oo in moon, ie in pie, oa in boat, ue in blue). This year kids will get more familiar with vowel teams (e.g. Tip: Here’s a cheat sheet to help your second grader remember the sound short vowels make: a as in apple, e as in egg, i as in igloo, o as in octopus, and u as in umbrella.) (Remember: long vowels sound just like the letter, like the a in ape. In the decoding department, second graders should be able to easily distinguish between short and long vowel sounds when reading common one-syllable words. Fluency is, quite simply, the ability to read quickly and accurately, something that many second graders begin to do by the end of the school year. Decoding is the ability to use patterns to decode words and decipher the separate sounds in words. In second grade, decoding and fluency are the most important skills for your child. Key 2nd grade reading skills The “D” and “F” of reading (decoding and fluency) Here are the second grade reading skills your child needs to learn this year.
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