Second Grade Fridge Curriculum
Skills to work on with your student throughout the year
English Language Arts
Read stories, including fables and folktales from different cultures, and identify the lesson or moral of the story
Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud
Read texts about history, social studies, or science and identify the main idea
Answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions about stories and books to demonstrate understanding of key details
Describe the reasons that an author gives to support a point
Learn and use new vocabulary
Use standard English when speaking and writing
Participate in discussions by listening and building on what others say
Write about a short series of events and describe actions, thoughts, and feelings
Write about a book, using important details and examples to support an original opinion
Introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section when writing informative texts
Mathematics
Solve one- and two-step word problems by adding or subtracting within 100
Understand that the place value of digits in a three-digit number represents hundreds, tens, and ones (e.g., 365 = 3 hundreds + 6 tens + 5 ones)
Add and subtract numbers through 1000 using place value
Add up to four two-digit numbers
Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s
Quickly and accurately add numbers that total 20 or less and subtract from numbers through 20
Estimate and measure lengths of objects in standard units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters
Solve addition and subtraction word problems involving length
Solve word problems involving money
Divide a rectangle into same-size squares
Divide circles and rectangles into halves, thirds, or fourths
Solve addition, subtraction, and comparison word problems using information presented in a bar graph