Elementary Curriculum for Second Grade - Communication Arts

"Writing"

Content

• Retells a story from personal experience that makes sense and stays on topic by speaking, drawing or writing.  (D)
• Retells a story that makes sense and stays on topic by speaking, drawing or writing.  (D)
• Communicates ideas that makes sense and stays on topic, by speaking, drawing or writing.  (D)
• Talks about a self-selected topic or a teacher prompt.  (D)
• Writes about a self-selected topic or a teacher prompt.  (D)
• Responds to literature using personal experience and opinion.  (I)
   

Style

• Speaks with own personality showing.  (D)
• Speaks in complete sentences. (D)
• Develops awareness of author’s voice and personality, word choice and interesting sentences.  (D)
• Writes complete sentences.  (I)
   

Organization

• Expresses a single thought.  (D)
• Stays on topic when speaking, drawing and/or writing.  (D)
• Tells or retells a story using story grammar with correct sequence of events.  (D)
• Integrates beginning, middle and end to communicate a sense of wholeness.  (I)
• Writes three connected thoughts focusing writing on one main idea.  (I)
   

Conventions

• Developing phonemic awareness.  (D)
• Uses phonemic awareness to spell.  (D)
• Uses emergent writing by drawing and scribbling, creating letter strings, words or letters.  (D)
• Learns to name and write upper and lower case letters.  (D)
• Writes from left to right, top to bottom.  (D, M)
• Leaves spaces between words.  (D, M)
• Uses developmental spelling with strategies towards conventional spelling.  (D)
• On final drafts, uses conventional spelling for age-appropriate words, with resources.  (I)
• Writes a complete sentence with a capital at the beginning and punctuation at the end.  (I)
• Capitals for proper nouns.  (I)