Grade Level Reading Expectations - Second Grade

Recognizes more specialized vocabulary and figurative language
Makes inferences from illustrative and textual details
Understands the importance of the sequence of events or information
Recalls specific events, ideas, or information to explain meaning or reaction to text
Recognizes a number of characters, incidents, and scene changes within a text
Considers text more critically
Shows awareness of characterization and in oral reading and responses
Responds to text in more varied ways
Distinguishes between the features of fiction and nonfictional material
Summarizes text or content of illustrative material for a specific purpose
Locates information in a range of texts and illustrations to answer problems or pursue a topic
Compares forms and writing and illustrative styles
Reads orally with expression, reflecting personal interpretation of text

Uses increasing knowledge of letter clusters, syllabification, affixes, roots, and compound words for identifying and/or confirming words
Shows awareness of multiple meanings of some words
Uses dictionaries and glossaries to check meaning and spelling

Identifies and uses adverbs, homonyms, and similies
Uses table of contents and index to locate information
Integrates strategies of meaning, structure, and letter-sound relationships, almost automatically, focusing on text detail when meaning is lost

Meets new challenges with confidence, usually using a variety of strategies
Makes time to read for pleasure
Initiates own reading for information as well as pleasure and often returns to continue reading or to locate specific section
Describes reactions to books and considers ideas of others

	Fiction (Literary)	Non-fiction (Information, task, career)	Text Features
New to Grade Level	Narrative, folktales, legends Plays	Nonfiction texts should include technology Articles Dictionaries Maps Informational posters	Chapter headings Pie charts / bar graphs Acknowledgements Blurbs Index
Previously Introduced	Narrative - realistic, fantasy, traditional Recount Songs Letters Diaries Rhymes Poetry	Nonfiction texts should include science, social studies, math, the arts, health and fitness Procedural Exposition Recount Reports Question and Answer	Labels Captions Story maps Charts Cover information Title page Table of contents Glossary Diagrams Maps and map keys