Second Grade Objectives
- Correct penmanship habits and proper use of tools
- To form manuscript letters correctly
- The names of letters
- Capital and lower case correspondents
- Alphabetical order
- The common sounds of the common 70 phonograms
- Common spelling rules
- Rules of syllabication
- Over 500 high frequency, easy words
- Match capital and lower case correspondents
- Alphabetize spelling words to any letter
- Write phonograms from isolated dictation
- Give sounds for phonograms in isolation
- Use phonograms to sound out new words in print, reading
- Use phonograms to write new words, spelling
- Count syllables in a word and sounds in a word or syllable
- Blend sounds into words he/she recognizes
- Analyze words by syllables and sounds in order to write them, spelling
- Learn how to sound out words in print, reading
- Write words from dictation
- Spell grade appropriate words correctly
- Common suffixes, e.g., -able, -ous, -ly, -ion, -ive
- Common inflectional suffixes, -s and –es with nouns, -ed and –ing with verbs, -er and –est with adjectives
- Common prepositions
- The forms of common irregular verbs, e.g., go, going, went, gone
- What is a subject and what is a predicate
- How to begin and end a written sentence
- How to add descriptive words to a sentence
- How to use proof reader marks
- Find words with ease in the dictionary
- Find the meaning of a word, the part of speech, and irregular spellings in the dictionary
- To identify and create rhyming and alliteration patterns
- Identify common homophones, homographs, antonyms, and synonyms
- Use words with multiple meanings
- Identify the beginning and end of a sentence in print
- Classify spelling words according to parts of speech
- Form noun plurals and possessives
- Capitalize proper nouns
- Identify prepositional phrases in sentences
- Write complete sentences
- Classify sentences as declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory
- Classify sentences as simple, compound, and complex
- Use descriptive words and phrases to elaborate with adjectival elements
- Use descriptive words and phrases to elaborate with adverbial elements
- Diagram basic sentence elements
