SECOND GRADE

Below are the Mastery Learning Targets, or priorities for all second grade students to be successful when they advance to third grade. Mastery (M) of these skills means the student has met the grade-level standard and is independently performing on grade level. Mastery may take time to reach, as foundational skills progress throughout the school year.

READING

  • Reads regularly spelled one syllable words with short vowels, long vowels, and vowel teams.

  • Reads regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.

  • Reads regularly spelled words with prefixes and suffixes.

  • Reads irregularly spelled words.

  • Reads and understands grade level text with ease, self-correcting as needed.

  • Makes and supports logical inferences to understand the text.

  • Determines the author’s message, lesson learned, and/or moral of a story. 

  • Describes how characters respond to major events and challenges.

  • Determines the central idea of a non-fiction text.

  • Describes different ways authors organize information in order to better understand the text. 

  • Describes how the author's claims are supported by their reasons.

  • Introduces a topic and states a claim in an opinion paragraph.

  • Supports the opinion with multiple reasons and evidence from the text.

  • Produces a conclusion for an opinion.

  • Produces complete simple and compound sentences.

  • Capitalizes proper nouns in sentences.

  • Uses spelling patterns when writing, including multisyllabic words. 

  • Determines the meaning of unknown and multi-meaning words and phrases.

MATH

  • Solves one-step addition and subtraction word problems.

  • Solves two-step addition and subtraction word problems.

  • Adds within 20 using mental strategies.

  • Subtracts within 20 using mental strategies.

  • Counts forward and backward to 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.

  • Reads and writes numbers to 1000.

  • Solves addition problems within 100.

  • Solves subtraction problems within 100.

  • Measures using appropriate tools and units to find the difference between lengths. 

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Understands how people in North America work together.

  • Answers questions about communities in North America.

  • Identifies characteristics of primary and secondary resources.

  • Decides between primary and secondary sources as fact or opinion.

  • Responds to questions with detail regarding the diversity of communities in North America.

  • Explains about a community in North America, using correct time sequence and relevant information.

  • Addresses a civic issue a community in North America may have with reasons and details.

  • Understands ways to participate as a citizen of Kentucky.

  • Understands information and develops ideas in a student group to benefit the local community or state of Kentucky.

SCIENCE

  • Describes and classifies materials by their observable properties.

  • Determines which materials have properties best suited for an intended purpose.

  • Describes what plants need in order to grow.

  • Demonstrates how plants reproduce through dispersing seeds or  pollination.

  • Compares the diversity of plants and animals in different habitats. 

  • Compares solutions to slow or prevent land changes.