South Carolina 2nd Grade ELA Standards in Reading Literary Text

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RL Reading – Literary Text

• RL.P Principles of Reading
  • RL.P.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
  • RL.P.2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds.
  • RL.P.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills when decoding words.
    • RL.P.3.1 Use knowledge of r-controlled vowels to read.
    • RL.P.3.2 Use knowledge of how syllables work to read multisyllabic words.
    • RL.P.3.3 Read irregularly spelled two-syllable words and words with common prefixes and suffixes.
    • RL.P.3.4 Use and apply knowledge of vowel diphthongs.
    • RL.P.3.5 Use and apply knowledge of how inflectional endings change words.
    • RL.P.3.6 Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
  • RL.P.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
    • RL.P.4.1 Read grade-level texts with purpose and understanding.
    • RL.P.4.2 Read grade-level texts orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, expression, intonation, and phrasing on successive readings.
• RL.MC Meaning and Context
  • RL.MC.5 Determine meaning and develop logical interpretations by making predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions, analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence, and investigating multiple interpretations.
    • RL.MC.5.1 Ask and answer literal and inferential questions to demonstrate understanding of a text; use specific details to make inferences and draw conclusions in texts heard or read.
    • RL.MC.5.2 Make predictions before and during reading; confirm or modify thinking
  • RL.MC.6 Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of thematic development.
    • RL.MC.6.1 Use information gained from illustrations and words in a print or multimedia text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
  • RL.MC.7 Analyze the relationship among ideas, themes, or topics in multiple media and formats, and in visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities.
    • RL.MC.7.1 Retell the sequence of major events using key details; determine the theme in a text heard or read.
    • RL.MC.7.2 Read or listen closely to compare and contrast multiple versions of the same story; compare and contrast texts in author and genre studies.
  • RL.MC.8 Analyze characters, settings, events, and ideas as they develop and interact within a particular context.
    • RL.MC.8.1 Read or listen closely to:
      • RL.MC.8.1.a compare and contrast characters’ actions, feelings, and responses to major events or challenges;
      • RL.MC.8.1.b describe how cultural context influences characters, setting, and the development of the plot; and
      • RL.MC.8.1.c explain how cause and effect relationships affect the development of plot.
• RL.LCS Language, Craft, and Structure
  • RL.LCS.9 Interpret and analyze author’s use of words, phrases, and conventions, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.
    • RL.LCS.9.1 Identify the literary devices of simile and metaphor and sound devices; explain how the author uses each.
    • RL.LCS.9.2 Explain how words, phrases, conventions, and illustrations communicate feelings, appeal to the senses, influence the reader, and contribute to meaning.
  • RL.LCS.10 Apply a range of strategies to determine and deepen the meaning of known, unknown, and multiple-meaning words, phrases, and jargon; acquire and use general academic and domain-specific vocabulary.
    • RL.LCS.10.1 Use context to determine the meaning of words and phrases.
    • RL.LCS.10.2 Determine the meaning of a newly formed word when a known affix is added to a known word.
    • RL.LCS.10.3 Use a base word to determine the meaning of an unknown word with the same base.
    • RL.LCS.10.4 Use the meanings of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words.
    • RL.LCS.10.5 Use print and multimedia resources to determine or clarify the precise meaning of words or phrases.
    • RL.LCS.10.6 Use general academic and domain-specific words and phrases acquired through talk and text; explore nuances of words and phrases.
  • RL.LCS.11 Analyze and provide evidence of how the author’s choice of point of view, perspective, or purpose shapes content, meaning, and style
    • RL.LCS.11.1 Identify and analyze the author’s purpose.
    • RL.LCS.11.2 Recognize differences between the points of view and perspectives of the narrator and various characters.
  • RL.LCS.12 Analyze and critique how the author uses structures in print and multimedia texts to shape meaning and impact the reader.
    • RL.LCS.12.1 Describe the overall structure of a narrative including how the beginning introduces and the ending concludes the action.
    • RL.LCS.12.2 Recognize characteristics of crafted text structures such as diary, seesaw texts, and circular texts.
• RL.RC Range and Complexity
  • RL.RC.13 Read independently and comprehend a variety of texts for the purposes of reading for enjoyment, acquiring new learning, and building stamina; reflect and respond to increasingly complex text over time.
    • RL.RC.13.1 Engage in whole and small group reading with purpose and understanding.
    • RL.RC.13.2 Read independently for sustained periods of time to build stamina.
    • RL.RC.13.3 Read and respond according to task and purpose to become self-directed, critical readers and thinkers.