Oklahoma 2nd Grade ELA Standards in Language

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2.5 Language

• Reading: Students will expand and apply knowledge of grammar, usage, mechanics, and style to comprehend, analyze, and/or evaluate a variety of texts.
  • 2.5.R.1 Students will recognize simple and compound sentences.
  • 2.5.R.2 Students will recognize parts of speech in sentences:
    • 2.5.R.2.a common, proper, and irregular plural nouns
    • 2.5.R.2.b tenses of verbs (i.e., past, present, future)
    • 2.5.R.2.c the simple subject and simple predicate of a sentence
    • 2.5.R.2.d descriptive adjectives and articles (i.e., a, an, the) as adjectives
    • 2.5.R.2.e prepositions
    • 2.5.R.2.f singular and plural personal pronouns and the nouns they replace
    • 2.5.R.2.g the conjunctions and, or, and but
    • 2.5.R.2.h -ly adverbs
• Writing: Students will expand and apply knowledge of grammar, usage, mechanics, and style to speak and write effectively, demonstrating standard usage when appropriate.
  • 2.5.W.1 Students will compose simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences that begin with a capital letter and conclude with an end mark.
  • 2.5.W.2 Students will use nouns, verbs, and adjectives to add clarity and variety to their writing.
  • 2.5.W.3 Students will punctuate initials and capitalize holidays, product names, initials, and months and days of the week.
  • 2.5.W.4 Students will use periods with declarative and imperative sentences, question marks with interrogative sentences, and exclamation points with exclamatory sentences.
  • 2.5.W.5 Students will use apostrophes to form simple contractions (e.g., isn’t, aren’t, can’t).
  • 2.5.W.6 Students will use commas in dates (e.g., September 6, 2020).
  • 2.5.W.7 Students will use a colon to indicate time (e.g., The bell rings at 3:15.).