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Colorado Standards

Colorado 2nd Grade ELA Standards

All 10 Colorado English language arts standards for 2nd grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Colorado Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

10 standards

Oral Expression and Listening

2 standards
RW.2.1.1
Join discussions by taking turns respectfully, linking your comments to what others said and asking for more explanation, and recount key ideas from a text read aloud.
RW.2.1.2
Tell a story or share an experience out loud with facts and vivid details, stay on topic in group talks, and record stories or poems with added pictures.

Reading for All Purposes

3 standards
RW.2.2.1
Read stories, fables and poems by checking your own understanding, retelling them with their lesson, explaining how characters face challenges, and comparing versions of one tale.
RW.2.2.2
Read nonfiction to find the main topic of a whole text and each paragraph, use captions and indexes, explain how diagrams and reasons help, and compare two texts on a topic.
RW.2.2.3
Decode vowel teams, two-syllable words, prefixes and suffixes, read grade-level text with smooth phrasing, and use roots, context and dictionaries to unlock word meanings.

Writing and Composition

4 standards
RW.2.3.1
Write an opinion about a book or topic, back it with reasons joined by words like because and also, and finish with a concluding sentence.
RW.2.3.2
Write to inform with a topic, main ideas backed by facts and definitions, transition words and an ending, and write letters and how-to steps, like a recipe, in order.
RW.2.3.3
Write a true or imagined story with events in order, time words like then and later, characters' thoughts and feelings, vivid word choice and an ending, plus simple poems.
RW.2.3.4
Revise and edit writing for clear ideas, using collective nouns, irregular past tense, adjectives and adverbs, capitals for holidays and places, apostrophes, and checked spellings.

Research Inquiry and Design

1 standard
RW.2.4.1
Research a question with the class using books, dictionaries and media, find facts with tables of contents and diagrams, and recall what you learned to answer it.

The official Colorado documents

The plain-English lines on this page are EMStudio's own explanations of Colorado's standards, not the official wording, which Colorado Department of Education publishes in the documents above. Codes and strand names identify each standard.