Classes
2nd Grade

Subject: Elementary School

🧩 169 Practice Tests & Quizzes 📘 38 Study Guides

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Introduction

2nd Grade Curriculum

2nd Graders start to get skills in these areas:

1. More in-depth reading comprehension skills
2. Gaining further understanding and correct use of nouns and verbs
3. Learning multiple-meaning words
4. How to write a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end
5. Adding and subtracting more quickly and accurately
6. Solving more challenging word problems in math
7. Telling time and understanding units of time
8. Understanding the various physical and chemical changes in matter
9. Distinguishing between human wants and needs
10. Learning national symbols, historic places, and holidays

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2nd Grade Math Curriculum

2nd Graders should learn to:

1. Read and write numerals to 100 and to count objects to 100 or more
2. Addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers without regrouping, up to 100, using models and algorithms
3. Explore number patterns on a hundred chart and with a calculator
4. Combine shapes to form others shapes and find geometric shapes in real-life situations
5. Learn and compare money values including the quarter (25 cents), half-dollar (50 cents), and dollar (100 cents)

2nd Graders should focus on:

1. Understanding the meaning, uses, and representations for numbers
2. Computing addition and subtraction facts accurately
3. Analyzing and interpreting data
4. Using appropriate techniques, tools, units, and formulas in making measurements
5. Investigating the properties and characteristics of two and three dimensional geometric shapes

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2nd Grade Language Arts Curriculum

2nd Graders learn about:

1. Being able to answer a question about a story they have just read or listened to (who, what, when, why, where)
2. Reading simple stories, fables, and articles fluently and independently
3. Figuring out unfamiliar words using phonetic strategies
4. Identifying the main topic in a text

 

2nd Graders should know these topics in Reading:

1. Using the information in text to determine the characters, setting, or plot.
2. Identifying the meaning of words and phrases in appropriately-leveled text based on contextual cues
3. Anticipating, making inferences, and recognizing the author’s point of view of a story
    

2nd Graders should know these topics in Writing:

1. Learn to gather information from sources to answer a question.
2. Writing for different purposes and audiences such as creative, informational/expository, and persuasive forms
3. Creating written drafts that will be revised and edited, with guidance from a teacher
    

2nd Graders should know these topics in Grammar:

1. Distinguishing between complete and incomplete sentences
2. Identifying and correctly using parts of speech including nouns and verbs
3. Using quotation marks correctly
4. Spelling frequently used, but irregular words correctly (e.g.:  was, were, says, said)

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2nd Grade Science Curriculum

2nd Graders should know:

1. Life science (plants and animals and their habits and life cycles)
2. Earth/Space science (properties of suns, moons, planets, and stars)
3. Physical science (states of matter, electricity, and magnetism)

 

2nd Graders will focus on understanding the natural world around them:

1. Demonstrating scientific reasoning and logic
2. Learning to measure in both English and metric units
3. Applying scientific concepts, skills, and processes to everyday experiences
4. Describing/summarizing scientific processes both orally and in writing

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2nd Grade Social Studies Curriculum

2nd Graders should know:

1. What humans must have to survive (needs vs wants)
2. Their place in the world (basic geography skills)
3. Their national identity (American holidays, landmarks, and symbols)
4. Their community (what makes a community and the jobs that keep it operating)

2nd Graders will focus on:

1. Understanding basic economic concepts
2. Using geographic representations to process information
3. Understanding the roles of citizens
4. Recognizing key national symbols
5. Awareness of key national holidays

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