LANGUAGE ARTS/READING

Storytown Resources

Please click above to access stories and more from our Language Arts series. Username is student2, Password is reading.  Click on the library icon.  Be sure to click on Reading.  If you would like to read the weekly story, choose the Storytown Student Edition G2 icon.  You can also access all of our Workbooks for Language Arts at this site just in case your child forgets their book at school.

PA CORE STANDARDS

2nd Graders will:

Learn to read independently

Read critically in all content areas

Read, analyze, and interpret literature

Write clearly and effectively in various formats

Demonstrate speaking and listening skills

Write legibly in manuscript and cursive

1.1 Foundational Skills: phonics, word recognition, fluency

1.2 Reading Informational Text

*Main idea, ask and answer questions to show understanding of text, understand text features, multiple meaning words, graphic aids, author's purpose, compare and contrast, vocabulary

1.3 Reading Literature

*Make connections, self-monitoring comprehension strategies, read different genres, central message, character analysis, readers theatre, elements of story structure, compare and contrast, cause/effect, sequencing, multiple meaning words, vocabulary,

1.4 Writing

*how to pieces, informational pieces, paragraph writing, use simple and compound sentences, opinion pieces, research writing, narrative pieces, writing process

1.5 Speaking and Listening