Appendix – Implementing District Standards
Common Core State Standards
In second grade, students are expected to read and comprehend increasingly complex, grade level text. As students write and discuss their thinking with peers, they learn to organize their thoughts, confirm their understandings, clarify their thinking and use content related vocabulary. These activities also help students to remember and retain the content they are learning. The below standards will support them as they learn these skills. They will also challenge students to think critically and creatively as they compare and connect events within a time period and analyze current events through that history.
RL/RI.2.1 – Ask and answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. Students will read literary and informational text to ask and answer questions in order to comprehend and remember the content in text.
RL.2.2 Recount stories and determine their central message. Students will learn to organize details in text and identify the central message in order to connect the content to their own lives.
RI.2.2 – Identify the main topic of multi-paragraph text. This will help students comprehend informational text and remember the content they are learning.
RL.2.3 – Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
RI.2.3 – Describe the connection between a series of historical events in a text.
SL.2.1 – Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
Illinois Social Science Standards
Students in second grade are expected to engage in inquiry as they learn and research history. These standards will guide students as they learn about civilian and government roles in creating and sustaining legislation from the past and using this knowledge to analyze the present and plan for the future.
SS.H.2.2: Compare individuals and groups who have shaped a significant historical change.
SS.H.3.2: Explain how different kinds of historical sources (such as written documents, objects, artistic works, and oral accounts) can be used to study the past.
SS.IS.6.K-2. Use listening, consensus building and voting procedures to decide on and take action in their classroom.
SS.CV.1.2: Explain what governments are and some of their functions (e.g. making and enforcing laws, protecting citizens and collecting taxes).
SS.CV.2.2: Describe how communities work to accomplish common tasks, establish responsibilities and fulfill roles of authority.
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