Grade guides · Usually ages 7 and 8

What children usually learn in Grade 2

What the year usually covers, subject by subject, in our own words from the curriculum you choose, with games that practise it.

Curriculum: United States · Ontario · British Columbia · England

Math

  • Adding and taking away within 100 with ease, and within 20 from memory 2.OA, 2.NBT
  • Hundreds, tens and ones to 1000, and counting in 5s, 10s and 100s 2.NBT
  • Adding and taking away within 1000 2.NBT
  • Odd and even numbers, and equal groups in rows and columns 2.OA
  • Measuring with a ruler and estimating lengths 2.MD
  • Telling the time to five minutes, and solving problems with coins and notes 2.MD
  • Making and reading picture graphs and bar graphs 2.MD

Practise it with

Reading

  • Reading longer words: vowel teams and words of two syllables RF.2.3
  • Reading the year's books smoothly enough to understand them RF.2.4
  • How characters respond, and a story's beginning, middle and end RL.2.3, RL.2.5
  • Using headings and pictures to find facts in an information text RI.2.5
  • Writing a story in order, and an opinion with reasons W.2.1, W.2.3
  • Word parts and new words, and spelling common patterns L.2.2, L.2.4

Practise it with

Science

  • Materials and what they are like, and choosing the right one for a job 2-PS1
  • Heating and cooling, and changes that can or cannot go back 2-PS1
  • What plants need, seeds carried by animals, and life in different habitats 2-LS2, 2-LS4
  • How wind and water shape the land, and where water is found 2-ESS1, 2-ESS2
  • Comparing two designs to find which works better K-2-ETS1

Practise it with

Geography

  • Making and reading maps with a legend and a grid D2.Geo, K-2
  • The continents and the oceans D2.Geo, K-2
  • Where everyday things and food come from D2.Geo, K-2
  • How people change the land, and how the land shapes how people live D2.Geo, K-2
  • North, south, east and west D2.Geo, K-2

Practise it with

History

  • A timeline of their own life, oldest to newest D2.His, K-2
  • Why things changed: tools, travel and homes D2.His, K-2
  • How people lived long ago D2.His, K-2
  • Photos, objects and stories as evidence D2.His, K-2
  • How people decide things together, and what is fair D2.Civ, K-2

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Where this comes from

Written in our own words from the documents below. It says what the year usually covers; it is not the official text, which the curriculum's own pages hold.

  • Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Next Generation Science Standards (2013), by NGSS Lead States
  • College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (2013), by National Council for the Social Studies

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