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Louisiana 2nd Grade ELA Standards

All 40 Louisiana English language arts standards for 2nd grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Louisiana Department of Education's document, linked at the end of this page.

40 standards

Reading Standards for Literature

9 standards
RL.2.1
Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions about a story on your own, like why the fox tricked the hen.
Common Core RL.2.1
RL.2.2
Retell a fable or folktale from another culture, like The Tortoise and the Hare, and say what lesson or moral it teaches.
Common Core RL.2.2
RL.2.3
Explain how a character deals with a big event or problem in a story, like what a lost puppy does to find its way home.
Common Core RL.2.3
RL.2.4
Describe how words and phrases add rhythm and meaning to a poem or song, like rhymes or repeated lines, and work out what words mean in the text.
RL.2.5
Describe how a story is built, with a beginning that sets things up, a middle where the action happens and an ending that wraps it up.
Common Core RL.2.5
RL.2.6
Notice that the characters in a story see things differently and show it by using a different voice for each one when reading their lines aloud.
Common Core RL.2.6
RL.2.7
Use both the pictures and the words of a book or e-book to explain who the characters are, where the story happens and what goes on in it.
Common Core RL.2.7
RL.2.9
Tell what is the same and what changes between two tellings of one story, like a Cinderella from Europe and one from China.
Common Core RL.2.9
RL.2.10
By year’s end, read and understand stories and poems written for 2nd and 3rd graders, with some help on the hardest ones.
Common Core RL.2.10

Reading Standards for Informational Text

10 standards
RI.2.1
Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions about a story on your own, like why the fox tricked the hen.
Common Core RL.2.1
RI.2.2
Name the main topic of a nonfiction text with several paragraphs and tell what each paragraph focuses on.
RI.2.3
Explain how the events, science ideas or steps in an informational text link up, like how each step in a recipe leads to the next.
Common Core RI.2.3
RI.2.4
Figure out what a subject word in a 2nd grade science or social studies text means, like habitat in a book about animals.
Common Core RI.2.4
RI.2.5
Use captions, bold words, subheadings, a glossary, an index or the menus and icons on a screen to find a fact quickly instead of rereading everything.
Common Core RI.2.5
RI.2.6
Say why the author wrote an informational text, like to answer a question, explain how something works or describe a place.
Common Core RI.2.6
RI.2.7
Explain what a diagram, photo or map adds to an informational text, like a labeled drawing that shows how a pulley lifts a load.
Common Core RI.2.7
RI.2.8
Describe how an author's reasons or facts back up particular points in a nonfiction text.
RI.2.9
Read two informational texts on one topic, like two books about volcanoes, and tell where their most important points agree and where they differ.
Common Core RI.2.9
RI.2.10
By year’s end, read and understand history, science and how-to texts written for 2nd and 3rd graders, with some help on the hardest ones.
Common Core RI.2.10

Reading Standards for Foundational Skills

2 standards
RF.2.3
Say the main sound of each consonant, know the long and short sounds of a, e, i, o and u, and read common sight words like the, of and you.
Common Core RF.K.3
RF.2.4
Read 1st-grade books aloud smoothly and accurately with expression, understand them, and reread when a word or sentence does not make sense.
Common Core RF.1.4

Writing Standards

7 standards
W.2.1
Write an opinion about a topic or book, give reasons for it linked with words like because and also, and finish with a closing sentence.
Common Core W.2.1
W.2.2
Write a short report that introduces a topic, like how plants grow, builds its points with facts and definitions, and ends with a closing sentence.
Common Core W.2.2
W.2.3
Write a story about one event or a few in a row, with details about what people did, thought and felt, order words like first and then, and a real ending.
Common Core W.2.3
W.2.5
With help from adults and classmates, stick to one topic and improve a piece of writing by revising the ideas and editing the mistakes.
Common Core W.2.5
W.2.6
With an adult's help, use digital tools like a tablet or classroom computer to write, polish and publish a piece, sometimes with a partner.
Common Core W.1.6
W.2.7
Join a class project that gathers information, like reading several books about insects to write a report together or keeping notes on a science experiment.
Common Core W.2.7
W.2.8
Answer a question by drawing on something you remember or by finding the facts in books or websites the teacher gives you.
Common Core W.2.8

Speaking and Listening Standards

6 standards
SL.2.1
Discuss 2nd grade topics and books in small and large groups, follow the rules, build on what others say and ask when something is unclear.
Common Core SL.2.1
SL.2.2
Retell the main ideas and details of a story read aloud, a talk or a video, like the steps shown in a video about making butter.
Common Core SL.2.2
SL.2.3
Ask a speaker questions to clear up a confusing part, learn more or go deeper into the topic, and answer questions about what was said.
Common Core SL.2.3
SL.2.4
Tell a story or share something that happened, like a trip to the zoo, with the right facts and vivid details, speaking clearly in sentences that hang together.
Common Core SL.2.4
SL.2.5
Record audio of stories or poems with help from adults or classmates, and add drawings or visuals to stories or retold experiences to make ideas and feelings clearer.
SL.2.6
Use complete sentences when the situation calls for them, giving the extra detail or explanation a listener asks for, like describing a pet.

Language Standards

6 standards
L.2.1
Print many letters, use everyday nouns, verbs and little words like in and on, make plurals like dogs and wishes, ask with who and where, and speak in full sentences.
Common Core L.K.1
L.2.2
Capitalize the first word of a sentence and the word I, name the period and question mark, and spell simple words the way they sound, like kat for cat.
Common Core L.K.2
L.2.3
Notice the difference between formal and casual English, like Good morning, Mrs. Lee versus Hey, and choose which fits the moment.
Common Core L.2.3
L.2.4
Figure out a new word in 2nd grade reading from its sentence, a prefix like un- in unhappy, a root like add in addition, its parts like birdhouse, or a dictionary.
Common Core L.2.4
L.2.5
Connect words to real life, like naming foods that are spicy or juicy, and tell apart close words like toss, throw and hurl or thin, slender and scrawny.
Common Core L.2.5
L.2.6
Put new words from talks, books and read-alouds to work, including describing words like gentle and quickly, when speaking and writing about what was read.
Common Core L.2.6

The official Louisiana documents

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