Texas 2nd Grade ELA Standards in Oral and Written Conventions

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2 Oral and Written Conventions

• 21 Students understand the function of and use the conventions of academic language when speaking and writing. Students continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity.
  • A understand and use the following parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking:
    • i verbs (past, present, and future);
    • ii nouns (singular/plural, common/proper);
    • iii adjectives (e.g., descriptive: old, wonderful; articles: a, an, the);
    • iv adverbs (e.g., time: before, next; manner: carefully, beautifully);
    • v prepositions and prepositional phrases;
    • vi pronouns (e.g., he, him); and
    • vii time-order transition words;
  • B use complete sentences with correct subject-verb agreement; and
  • C distinguish among declarative and interrogative sentences.
• 22 Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions.
  • A write legibly leaving appropriate margins for readability;
  • B use capitalization for:
    • i proper nouns;
    • ii months and days of the week; and
    • iii the salutation and closing of a letter; and
  • C recognize and use punctuation marks, including:
    • i ending punctuation in sentences;
    • ii apostrophes and contractions; and
    • iii apostrophes and possessives.
• 23 Students spell correctly.
  • A use phonological knowledge to match sounds to letters to construct unknown words;
  • B spell words with common orthographic patterns and rules:
    • i complex consonants (e.g., hard and soft c and g, ck);
    • ii r-controlled vowels;
    • iii long vowels (e.g., VCe-hope); and
    • iv vowel digraphs (e.g., oo-book, fool, ee-feet), diphthongs (e.g., ou-out, ow-cow, oi-coil, oy-toy);
  • C spell high-frequency words from a commonly used list;
  • D spell base words with inflectional endings (e.g., -ing and -ed);
  • E spell simple contractions (e.g., isn’t, aren’t, can’t); and
  • F use resources to find correct spellings.