What Second-Graders Learn
- Intensive practice in guided and independent reading using both sight word recognition and decoding unfamiliar words using phonics and context cues
- Spelling rules
- Alphabetizing and using a dictionary
- Intensive writing in paragraph form with correct spelling, complete sentences, and basic punctuation
- Recognize basic parts of speech and sentence structure rules
- Cursive writing
- Memorize addition and subtraction facts to 20 and perform mental math operations without carrying and borrowing
- Column addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing on paper
- Place value, including 0, 10s, 100s, 1000s
- Extended practice in identifying and manipulating fractions
- Tell time to the quarter hour and use a calendar
- Use graphs and numerical operations to work math word problems
- Learn math families, the ways that different number combinations add up to the same number
- Precise measurements using a variety of everyday measuring tools
- Animal classifications and parts of plants and their functions
- Early physics and chemistry using familiar objects to explore gravity, matter, heat, air, magnetism
- Basic scientific skills of observation, recording, and asking questions
- Basic food groups and healthy nutrition facts
- Hygiene and its connection to germs and illness
- Notable people in history and current events
- Identify U.S. states on a map and globe skills
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Note to Parents...
Children, families, and schools vary so widely that it's possible only to state general guidelines for the skills needed to start the grade and those the child will learn in this grade. So, don't panic if your child or school doesn't match the list exactly. Just be aware of these skills and work on them with your child this year.
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