New York State Standards for Language Arts: Grade 2

NY.1. Reading: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.

1.1. Locate and use library media resources to acquire information, with assistance

1.2. Read unfamiliar informational texts to collect and interpret data, facts, and ideas, with assistance

1.3. Read and understand written directions

1.4. Locate information in a text that is needed to solve a problem, with assistance

1.5. Identify main ideas and supporting details in informational texts, with assistance

1.6. Recognize and use organizational features of texts, such as page numbers and chapter headings/subheadings, to locate information, with assistance

1.7. Relate data and facts from informational texts to prior information and experience, with assistance

1.8. Compare and contrast information on one topic from two different sources, with assistance

1.9. Identify a conclusion that summarizes the main idea, with assistance

1.10. Select books to meet informational needs, with assistance

1.11. Identify and interpret facts taken from maps, graphs, charts, and other visuals, with assistance

1.12. Use graphic organizers to record significant details from informational texts, with assistance

NY.2. Reading: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for literary response and expression.

2.1. Select literature on the basis of personal needs and interests from a variety of genres and by different authors, with assistance

2.2. Engage in purposeful oral reading in small and large groups

2.3. Read print-based and electronic literary texts silently on a daily basis for enjoyment

2.4. Recognize differences among the genres of stories, poems, and plays, with assistance

2.5. Relate characters in literature to own lives, with assistance

2.6. Explain the difference between fact and fiction, with assistance

2.7. Use previous reading and life experiences to understand literature, with assistance

2.8. Make predictions and draw conclusions and inferences about characters, with assistance

2.9. Recognize the value of illustration in literary text

2.10. Use specific evidence from stories to describe characters and relate sequences of events, with assistance

2.11. Use knowledge of story structure and story elements to interpret stories, with assistance

2.12. Use graphic organizers to record significant details to compare and contrast characters and events in stories, with assistance

2.13. Summarize main ideas and supporting details from literary text, both orally and in writing, with assistance

NY.3. Reading: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for critical analysis and evaluation.

3.1. Evaluate the content by identifying, with assistance, the author's purpose

3.2. Evaluate the content by identifying, with assistance, important and unimportant details

3.3. Evaluate the content by identifying, with assistance, whether events, actions, characters, and/or setting are realistic

3.4. Compare characters in literary works

3.5. Judge the accuracy of content, with assistance from teachers and parents/caregivers

NY.4. Reading: Students will read, write, listen, and speak for social interaction.

4.1. Share reading experiences to build relationships with peers or adults; for example, read together silently or aloud

4.2. Respect the age, gender, position, and cultural traditions of the writer

4.3. Recognize the types of language (e.g., formal and informal vocabulary) that are appropriate to social communication

3.6. Use effective vocabulary in expository writing, with assistance

3.7. Use details from stories or informational texts to predict events

3.8. Maintain a portfolio that includes written analysis and evaluation as a method of reviewing work with teachers and parents/caregivers

4.4. Maintain a portfolio that includes writing for social interaction as a method of reviewing work with teachers and parents/caregivers