Alaska Content and Performance Standards 2nd Grade ELA Activities

AK.RL.2. Reading Standards for Literature

Key Ideas and Details

RL.2.1. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of a literary text using key details from the text.

RL.2.2. Retell stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine the author’s purpose (e.g., teach a lesson, make you laugh, tell a scary story, describe an imaginary place), lesson or moral.

RL.2.3. Describe how characters in a story, play or poem respond to major events, problems, and challenges.

Craft and Structure

RL.2.4. Identify words and phrases that supply rhythm or sensory images and meaning in a story, poem, or song (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) and describe how they make a reader feel or what a reader might see in his or her mind.

RL.2.5. Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story (who, what, why, where), the middle describes the problem (how characters react or feel and what they do), and the ending concludes the action or tells how the problem was solved.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

RL.2.7. Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot (e.g., problem-solution; chronology).

Range of Reading and Level of Complexity

RL.2.10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend a range of literature from a variety of cultures, within a complexity band appropriate to grade 2 (from upper grade 1 to grade 3), with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

AK.RI.2. Reading Standards for Informational Text

Key Ideas and Details

RI.2.1. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of informational texts using key details from the text.

RI.2.2. Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

RI.2.3. Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.

Craft and Structure

RI.2.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.

RI.2.5. Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, headings, charts, bulleted or numbered lists, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.

RI.2.6. Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

RI.2.7. Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

RI.2.10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend a range of informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts within a complexity band appropriate to grade 2 (from upper grade 1 to grade 3), with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

AK.RF.2. Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

RF.2.3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

RF.2.3.a. Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.

RF.2.3.b. Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.

RF.2.3.c. Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.

RF.2.3.d. Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.

Fluency

RF.2.4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

RF.2.4.c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

AK.W.2. Writing Standards

Production and Distribution of Writing

W.2.5. With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed (e.g., adding concrete and sensory details; elaborating on how the details chosen support the focus) by revising and editing.

AK.L.2. Language Standards

Conventions of Standard English

L.2.1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

L.2.1.b. Form and use frequently occurring irregular plural nouns (e.g., feet, children, teeth, mice, fish).

L.2.1.e. Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.

L.2.2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

L.2.2.c. Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.

L.2.2.d. Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil).

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

L.2.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.

L.2.4.a. Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

L.2.4.b. Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix is added to a known word (e.g., happy/unhappy, tell/retell).

L.2.4.c. Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., addition, additional).

L.2.4.d. Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words (e.g., birdhouse, lighthouse, housefly; bookshelf, notebook, bookmark).

L.2.4.e. Use glossaries and beginning picture dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases.

L.2.5. Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

L.2.5.a. Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe foods that are spicy or juicy).