1st and 2nd Grade Expectations

SECOND GRADE EXPECTATIONS

As your child ENTERS 2nd grade and/or EXITS 1st grade he/she should be able to do the following:

• Recognize short and long vowels
• Master basic 220 Dolch sight words
• Read and comprehend guided reading level I books
• Correctly use the basic sentence structure (naming and telling part)
• Write a basic story (stay on one topic... stage 3 of writing rubric)
• Spell phonetically (long and short vowels, blends, digraphs)
• Alphabetize words to the 2nd letter
• Follow oral and written directions
• Compute basic addition and subtraction problems to 18
• Use a number line correctly (addition and subtraction up to 100)
• Compute basic addition and subtraction word problems 1 and 2 digit numbers without regrouping
• Use counting on and counting back strategies when computing facts
• Recognize basic time to the hour and half hour
• Recognize and be able to count coins
• Identify place value (ones and tens)
• Write and identify numbers to 100
• Recognize odd and even numbers
• Obtain and use information from graphs
• Write legibly
• Identify the correct sequences in the writing process

As your child EXITS 2nd grade he/she should be able to do the following:

• Answer questions with a complete sentence
• Write a basic story... stage 4 of the writing rubric
• Identify and use parts of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, conjunction)
• Know and be able to write address and phone number correctly
• Alphabetize words to the 3rd letter
• Identify and use correct punctuation and capitalization consistently
• Use correct grammar (suffixes and subject/verb agreement)
• Copy from board correctly
• Read fluently and comprehend guided reading level L/M books
• Use self correcting strategies effectively
• Recall and identify main idea and details within a story
• Use reference skills and map skills
• Follow multiple oral/written directions
• Compute three digit addition and subtraction problems with and without regrouping
• Use multiple combinations of money/coins when counting up to one dollar and making change
• Tell time to 5 minute intervals
• Read, interpret, and apply information from graphs and charts
• Solve story problems independently
• Use basic measurement and geometry
• Identify 3 digit place value (ones, tens, hundreds)
• Find/solve missing addends
• Recognize number patterns
• Skip count by 2's, 5's, 10's up to 100; 3's up to 30; 4's up to 40
• Identify and use the writing process correctly

As your child ENTERS 1st grade he/she should be able to:

• Know upper/lower case letters
• Know beginning sounds
• Know numbers 0 to 20 (written and oral)
• Know color words
• Know number words to ten
• Know 50 sight words
• Understand left to right with writing, reading, and math
• Understand how to use handwriting paper
• Recognize and arrange pictures in sequence
• Recognize shapes, patterns, and coins
• Begin recognizing coin values up to 25 cents
• Recognize ordinal numbers 1st through 5th
• Demonstrate the ability to understand simple addition and subtraction concepts
• Write letters in random order
• Form letters correctly
• Write a complete sentence.