Arkansas Curriculum Frameworks 2nd Grade ELA Activities

AR.RL.2. Grade 2 Reading Standards for Literature

Key Ideas and Details

RL.2.2. Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

RL.2.3. Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Craft and Structure

RL.2.4. Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

RL.2.5. Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

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.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity

RL.2.10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the Grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

AR.RI.2. Grade 2 Reading Standards for Informational Text

Key Ideas and Details

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, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, 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 year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the Grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

AR.RF.2. Grade 2 Reading Standards for Foundational Skills

Phonological Awareness

RF.2.2. This standard is taught in Grade 1 and should be reinforced as needed.

RF.2.2.A. Distinguish vowels (long, short, variant) in spoken one-syllable words.

Phonics and Word Recognition

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

RF.2.3.A. Identify words with inconsistent but common letter-sound correspondences (e.g., doll/roll, though/cough/rough, love/rove, have/save, some/dome, near/bear, soot/loot, were/here, shall/tall, own/town, hour/tour, want/plant).

RF.2.3.B. Know the letter/sound correspondences, including distinguishing long and short vowel sounds

RF.2.3.B.2. R-controlled vowels (e.g., er, ir, ur, ar, or)

RF.2.3.B.3. Additional common vowel teams (e.g., ei, ie, igh)

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

RF.2.3.E. Decode words that follow the six syllable types

RF.2.3.E.4. Vowel teams

RF.2.3.E.5. R-controlled vowel

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

Fluency

RF.2.4. Read grade-level text with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

RF.2.4.C. Use context in grade-level text to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

AR.W.2. Grade 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 by revising and editing.

Range of Writing

W.2.10. Write routinely over extended time frames, time for: research; reflection; revision and shorter time frames (e.g., a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

AR.L.2. Grade 2 Language Standards

Conventions of Standard English

L.2.1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage as appropriate for Grade 2 when writing or speaking.

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

L.2.1.C. Form and use regular and irregular verbs.

L.2.1.G. Use prepositions correctly.

L.2.2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling as appropriate for Grade 2 when writing.

L.2.2.B. 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).

L.2.2.D.2. Reference spelling patterns chart to clarify types of spelling patterns.

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

L.2.5.A. Sort words into categories based on multiple attributes (e.g., A large apple can be categorized by its color, size, and as a fruit.) to gain a sense of the concept that items can be categorized by more than one characteristic.

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