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Wisconsin Standards

Wisconsin 2nd Grade ELA Standards

All 32 Wisconsin English language arts standards for 2nd grade, each explained in plain English. The official wording is in Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's document, linked at the end of this page.

32 standards

Reading Foundational Skills

3 standards
RF.2.2
Hear and make rhymes, clap syllables, say the first, middle and last sounds in a short word like cat, and swap a sound to make a new word, like cat to hat.
Common Core RF.K.2
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

Reading

9 standards
R.2.1
Create and answer questions that prove you understood the key ideas and details, like who, what, where, and why in a story.
R.2.2
Sum up sections of a text to figure out what it is mostly about and which details matter most.
R.2.3
Describe how characters react to big events and challenges in stories, and how ideas or steps connect in nonfiction.
R.2.4
Explain how words and phrases show feelings or appeal to the senses, and figure out topic words, like habitat in a science book.
R.2.5
Describe how a text is built, including how its beginning sets things up and its ending wraps them up.
R.2.6
Find examples of how pictures, text features like headings, and details show a text's point of view or purpose.
R.2.7
Use what you learn from pictures and text features, like captions and diagrams, to show you understand story elements or topics.
R.2.8
Explain which reasons and evidence an author or illustrator gives to support each main point in a nonfiction text.
R.2.9
Compare the key points or viewpoints in two texts on one topic, noting likenesses and differences, and see how texts mirror different cultures, including your own.

Writing

9 standards
W.2.1
Write to reflect, inform, or create, for low-pressure practice like a reading log and for bigger pieces like a final report.
W.2.2
Write opinions with linked reasons and a conclusion, informative pieces with facts and definitions, and stories with details and time words.
W.2.3
Write with a connected beginning, middle, and end, use transitions to link ideas and events, and choose vivid words for feelings and images.
W.2.4
With adult help, shape and order writing to fit its task and purpose while honoring the writer's culture, like a family story for classmates.
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 adult help, use digital tools to create and publish writing with classmates, like a class blog, and keep building printing, cursive, or typing skills.
W.2.7
Take part in group and solo research and writing projects, like reading several books on one topic to write a report or recording science observations.
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
W.2.9
With help from adults and classmates, recall and use facts from stories and nonfiction to reflect on and explore characters, setting, and ideas.

Speaking and Listening

5 standards
SL.2.1
Join group talks by following discussion rules, getting a turn politely, linking comments to what others said, asking for clarification, and respecting differences.
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
Question a speaker and respond to questions about a talk to gather more facts, clear up confusion, or go deeper into the topic.
SL.2.4
Tell a story or share an experience out loud with clear, descriptive details, like losing a tooth or a visit to the zoo.
SL.2.5
Add digital media or visuals, like photos or a short recording, to a presentation to make ideas and feelings clearer.

Language

6 standards
L.2.1
Notice how language differs at home, in the community, and in writing and speech, and tell formal English from informal English.
L.2.2
Work out new words using prefixes, suffixes, root words, the two parts of compound words like birdhouse, and a dictionary.
L.2.3
Explain a nonliteral phrase like take steps, name someone who is friendly to link a word to real life, and rank knew, believed and suspected by how sure they are.
Common Core L.3.5
L.2.4
Grow your word knowledge alone and with others, use words that suit the setting, and describe things with adjectives and adverbs like quietly.
L.2.5
Use collective nouns, adjectives, adverbs, plurals, and irregular past tense verbs like went, and expand and rearrange simple and compound sentences.
L.2.6
Capitalize holidays, products, and places, use commas in letter greetings, apostrophes in contractions and possessives, and spelling patterns to spell words.

The official Wisconsin documents

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