LEARNER PROFILE
As members of Yarmouth Elementary School students work to become caring, respectful, and fair citizens.

A Responsible Classroom Citizen

  • Exhibits verbal self-control
  • Exhibits physical self-control
  • Respects community members
  • Accepts responsibility for work
  • Accepts responsibility for behavior
  • Is a collaborative worker


A Self-Directed Lifelong Learner

  • Is organized
  • Attentive during instruction
  • Works independently
  • Strives for personal best
  • Perseveres with challenges
  • Completes homework
  • Communicates effectively

READING

Foundational Skills

  • Decodes by applying grade level phonics and word analysis skills

  • Reads grade-appropriate high frequency words by sight

  • Reads grade level texts with accuracy to support comprehension

  • Reads grade level texts fluently with appropriate rate and expression


Literature


  • Retells stories, including key details, such as setting and plot

  • Determines the central message, lesson or moral

  • Identifies characters’ points of view and how they respond to challenges

  • Compares and contrasts two or more versions of the same story

  • Reads and comprehends literature independently at grade level


Informational Text


  • Identifies main topics throughout a multiparagraph text

  • Determines the meaning of unknown words

  • Uses various text features to locate key facts or information

  • Compares and contrasts important points within two texts on the same topic

  • Reads and comprehends informational texts independently at grade level

WRITING

Text Types and Purposes:

Narrative Writing

  • Writes a detailed narrative that includes actions, thoughts and feelings

  • Uses transitional words to sequence a narrative

  • Writes a lead that hooks the reader

  • Writes an ending that provides a sense of closure

Opinion/Persuasive Writing

  • States an opinion

  • Includes supporting reasons

  • Uses transitional words to link reasons

  • Writes a concluding statement or section

Information Writing

  • Uses an introduction to name a topic and interest readers

  • Uses facts and definitions to teach about a topic

  • Writes a concluding statement or section

Conventions in Daily Writing

  • Produces simple and compound sentences

  • Uses capitalization (beginning of sentences, I, and names)

  • Uses ending punctuation correctly

  • Spells grade level high frequency words correctly

  • Uses spelling patterns


Revising and Editing

  • With guidance, strengthens writing by revising and editing
MATHEMATICS
The following goals are expected to be secure by the end of Grade 2. Please note that these are secure goals, but they are not the only concepts to which students
will be exposed at this grade level. Students will have a rich curriculum, and their experiences in math will introduce them to many new concepts that will deepen 
over time. 
 

SECOND GRADE
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
  • Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction
  • Add and subtract within 20
  • Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication
Number and Operations in Base Ten
  • Understand place value
  • Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract
Measurement and Data
  • Measure and estimate lengths in standard units
  • Relate addition and subtraction to length
  • Work with time and money
  • Represent and interpret data
Geometry
  • Reason with shapes and their attributes
Basic Fact Fluency
  • Addition
  • Subtraction