Second Grade
* Based on the American Speech-Language Hearing Association article: Your Child's Communication Development: Kindergarten Through Fifth Grade
Your Child's Communication: Second Grade By the end of 2nd grade your child should be able to do the following: Listening Follow 3-4 oral directions in a sequence Understand direction words (e.g., location, space, and time words) Correctly answer questions about a grade-level story Speaking Be easily understood Answer more complex "yes/no" questions Ask and answer "wh" questions (e.g., who, what, where, when, why) Use increasingly complex sentence structures Clarify and explain words and ideas Give directions with 3-4 steps Use oral language to inform, to persuade, and to entertain Stay on topic, take turns, and use appropriate eye contact during conversation Open and close conversation appropriately Reading Have fully mastered phonics/sound awareness Associate speech sounds, syllables, words, and phrases with their written forms Recognize many words by sight Use meaning clues when reading (e.g., pictures, titles/headings, information in the story) Reread and self-correct when necessary Locate information to answer questions Explain key elements of a story (e.g., main idea, main characters, plot) Use own experience to predict and justify what will happen in grade-level stories Read, paraphrase/retell a story in a sequence Read grade-level stories, poetry, or dramatic text silently and aloud with fluency Read spontaneously Identify and use spelling patterns in words when reading Writing Write legibly Use a variety of sentence types in writing essays, poetry, or short stories (fiction and nonfiction) Use basic punctuation and capitalization appropriately Organize writing to include beginning, middle, and end Spell frequently used words correctly Progress from inventive spelling (e.g., spelling by sound) to more accurate spelling HEALTHGRADES
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