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SECOND GRADE
The Elementary Progress Report is based on Salem-Keizer Standards. For a full description please go to
www.salkeiz.k12.or.us/content/parents and click on the standards link or contact your child’s teacher.
Students will read a variety of grade level texts (e.g., fiction, non-fiction, poetry) with accuracy, fluency, and
READING comprehension. As the year progresses, so does the complexity of the text.
• Accuracy – students are able to read grade level text accurately • Comprehension – students listen to, read, and understand a wide
recognizing some words by sight and using clues to decode variety of informational and narrative text across the subject
unfamiliar words (e.g., text clues, picture clues and context areas at school and on own, applying comprehension strategies
clues). (e.g., visualizing, connecting, asking questions), skills (e.g.,
• Fluency – students read grade-level text with expression that is retell, identify main idea and supporting details) and vocabulary
beginning to sound conversational. as needed.
Students will experience writing in authentic ways, writing for real audiences in a variety of genres (e.g., personal
WRITING narratives, descriptive writing and simple research). Students will create writing by studying real authors and applying
strategies good writers use:
• The Writing Process – students generate ideas, create drafts, • Organization – students structure information in a clear sequence
revise/confer, edit and publish. including beginning, middle, and end. They make connections
• Ideas and Content – students communicate knowledge of the and transition among ideas, sentences, and paragraphs.
topic, write relevant examples, and convey clear main ideas, • Conventions – students use correct spelling, grammar,
facts, anecdotes, and details appropriate to the topic, audience, punctuation, capitalization, and paragraphing as appropriate to
and purpose. grade level standards.
Students will develop math skills that promote problem solving, reasoning, communication, and making
MATHEMATICS connections. Students will solve mathematical situations using a variety of methods and strategies to
communicate their learning. Experiences in math include the following:
• Number and Operations – students develop • Measurement – students develop an • Uses mathematical representations and
an understanding of place-value concepts understanding of linear measurement, facility communicates reasoning – students use
(e.g.,1000’s, 100’s, 10’s and 1’s). in measuring and telling time. manipulatives and models (e.g., connecting
• Number, Operation and Algebra – students cubes, charts, various fraction and decimal
develop fluency with addition facts, related models, base-ten pieces, number lines,
subtraction facts, multi-digit addition and arrays) to communicate understanding of
subtraction, and coins. mathematical concepts and operations.
Students will experience science in contexts that promote the scientific inquiry approach. Learning will
SCIENCE incorporate engineering and design and the scientific method through the use of evidence, critical thinking,
making connections and communications. Areas of study will include: