Kansas 2nd Grade ELA Standards in Reading Literature

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RL Reading: Literature

• Key Ideas and Details
  • RL.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
  • RL.2.2 Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
  • RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• Craft and Structure
  • RL.2.4 Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
  • RL.2.5 Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
  • RL.2.6 Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
  • RL.2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
  • RL.2.9 Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures.
• Language in Reading: Literature
  • RL.2.10 Use knowledge of language and its conventions to compare formal and informal uses of English.
  • RL.2.11 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on Grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a variety of strategies.
    • RL.2.11.a Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
    • RL.2.11.b Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix is added to a known word (e.g., happy/unhappy).
    • RL.2.11.c Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root.
    • RL.2.11.d Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words (e.g., birdhouse).
    • RL.2.11.e Use glossaries and beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases.
  • RL.2.12 Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
    • RL.2.12.a Identify real-life connections between words and their use.
    • RL.2.12.b Distinguish shades of meaning among closely-related verbs and closely-related adjectives.
• Range of Reading and Level of Text
  • RL.2.13 Read and comprehend high quality literary text of appropriate quantitative and qualitative complexity for Grade 2.