Alabama 2nd Grade ELA Standards in Writing

Looking for free content that’s aligned to your standards? You’ve come to the right place!

Writing

• 37 Write legibly.
  • 37.a Write words and sentences fluently using correctly-formed manuscript letters with appropriate size and spacing.
  • 37.b Demonstrate cursive writing strokes, including undercurve, overcurve, downcurve, and slant.
  • 37.c Form uppercase and lowercase letters in cursive.
• 38 Apply knowledge of grade-appropriate phoneme-grapheme correspondences, multisyllabic word construction, syllable division principles, and spelling rules (or generalizations) to encode words accurately.
  • 38.a Encode grade-appropriate multisyllabic words using knowledge of syllable types, including open, closed, vowel-consonant-e, vowel teams, vowel-r, and consonant-le.
  • 38.b Apply knowledge of multisyllabic word construction and syllable division principles to encode grade-appropriate words correctly.
  • 38.c Encode words with final /v/ and /j/ sounds using knowledge that no English word ends with a v or j.
  • 38.d Encode one- and two-syllable words with long and short vowel patterns.
  • 38.e Encode words with two- and three-consonant blends, including those containing digraphs.
  • 38.f Encode words with consonant digraphs, trigraphs, and combinations.
  • 38.g Encode words with the common vowel teams, including diphthongs.
  • 38.h Encode words with vowel-r combinations.
  • 38.i Encode words that follow the -ild, -⁠ost, -old, -olt, and -ind patterns.
  • 38.j Encode words with a after w read /⁠ä⁠/ and a before l read /â/.
  • 38.k Encode words with or after w read /er/.
  • 38.l Encode words with hard and soft c and g.
  • 38.m Encode words with vowel y in the final position of one and two syllable words, distinguishing the difference between the long /ī/ sound in one-syllable words and the long /ē/ sound in two-syllable words, and words with vowel y in medial position, producing the short /ĭ/ sound for these words.
  • 38.n Encode words with prefixes and suffixes, including words with dropped e and y-to-i changes for suffix addition.
  • 38.o Encode grade-appropriate high frequency words that are spelled using predictable, decodable phoneme-grapheme correspondences, including those that contain only one irregularity.
  • 38.p Encode contractions with am, is, has, not, have, would, and will, using apostrophes appropriately.
  • 38.q Encode frequently confused homophones accurately, using knowledge of English orthography and meaning to facilitate learning.
• 39 Organize a list of words into alphabetical order according to first, second, and third letters.
• 40 Write a personal or fictional narrative using a logical sequence of events, including details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings and providing a sense of closure.
• 41 Write informative or explanatory texts, introducing the topic, providing facts and relevant details to develop points, and providing a conclusion.
• 42 Write an opinion piece about a topic or text with details to support the opinion, using transitional words and providing a sense of closure.
• 43 Write complete sentences demonstrating knowledge of punctuation conventions.
  • 43.a Utilize commas with words in a series in a sentence.
  • 43.b Use apostrophes to form contractions and possessives.
  • 43.c Use punctuation to set off interjections.
  • 43.d Expand sentences using frequently-occurring conjunctions.
• 44 With prompting and support, compose and develop a well-organized paragraph with a topic sentence, details to support, and a concluding sentence.
• 45 Demonstrate understanding of standard English language conventions when writing.
  • 45.a Identify the role of a noun, verb, adjective, and adverb within a sentence and explain the type of the information it conveys.
  • 45.b Form regular nouns and verbs by adding -s or -es.
  • 45.c Form and use simple present and past verb tenses.
  • 45.d Form plurals by changing -y to -ies.
  • 45.e Form and use frequently-occurring irregular plural nouns and verbs.
  • 45.f Use plural possessives.
• 46 Gather and use research to answer questions to complete a research product.
  • 46.a Create topics of interest for a research project.
  • 46.b Create questions to gather information for a research project.
  • 46.c Find information from a variety of sources.
  • 46.d Define plagiarism and explain the importance of using their own words.