Second Grade Reading Expectations

1.  The student understands and uses different skills and strategies to read.

1.1 Uses word recognition skills and strategies to read and comprehend text.

1.1.1 Apply phonetic principles to read including sounding out, using initial letters, and using common letter patterns to make sense of whole words.

Apply understanding of phonics.

• Use knowledge of phonics to read unfamiliar words in grade level text.
• Read words containing complex letter patterns/word families (E.G. –ought, -aught).
• Apply multi-syllabic decoding when reading two and three syllable words (e.g., super follows v/cv pattern; supper follows vc/cv).

1.2 Use vocabulary (word meaning) strategies to comprehend text.

1.2.1 Use word and sentence structure to understand reading materials including prefixes, suffixes, contractions, and simple abbreviations.

Apply knowledge of word and sentence structure to comprehend text.

• Identify the meanings of prefixes, suffixes, inflectional endings, and abbreviated words in grade level text.

1.2.2 Use a variety of reading strategies to comprehend words and ideas, including self-correcting, re-reading, reading on, and slowing down.

Apply word meaning strategies in grade level text.

• Reread to clarify, read on, ask for help, adjust reading rate, use knowledge of print conventions to determine meaning of unknown words.

1.2.3 Use dictionaries, glossaries, and other sources to understand and confirm word meanings.

Understand how to use resources to learn word meanings.

• Identify glossaries in informational text and use them to find word meanings.

1.3 Build vocabulary through wide reading.

1.3.1 Use pictures, graphics, word meaning, and context clues to comprehend text.

Apply strategies to predict, clarify, and expand word meaning in grade level text.

• Use pictures, illustrations, and diagrams to clarify/expand word meaning.
• Use context to predict/approximate meaning of unknown words.

1.3.2 Build reading vocabulary across content areas.

Understand and apply new vocabulary.

• Increase vocabulary through reading literary and informational text.
• Use new vocabulary in own speaking and writing.

1.3.3 Identify and interpret general and specialized vocabulary critical to the meaning of text.

Understand how to identify and use general and specialized vocabulary.

• Identify and define words that would be important to know in order to read a new text, with teacher guidance.

1.4 Apply word recognition skills and strategies to read fluently.

1.4.1 Read grade level text fluently.

Apply word and text structure knowledge to read fluently with comprehension.

• Read aloud familiar grade level text fluently and accurately with expression, using cues of punctuation to assist.
• Read aloud unpracticed grade level text at a target rate of 90-100 words correct per minute.

Know high frequency words.

• Increase number of common sight words read with automaticity.

1.4.2 Adjust reading rate to incorporate new skills or read unfamiliar text with understanding.

Understand how fluent readers apply different reading rates.

• Read aloud unfamiliar grade level text and adjust rate appropriately to retain meaning.

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