EVIDENCE OF LEARNING—Quarter 1
GRADE 2
Uses Key Ideas and
Details
READING/Literature
Common Core
Standards
RL.2.3
Describe using
details:
Characters
Settings
Major Events
Suggested Learning Targets
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Craft and Structure
RL.2.5.
Major
differences
between story
structure
RL.2.6.
Different points
of view
Read Dialogue
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Extends
Knowledge
RL.2.7.
Use illustrations
to describe:
Characters,
Settings, Major
Events
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Asks questions about details
Determines the central message/moral of
story
Understands central message of text
Contrasts main ideas in two texts
Recognizes patterns of characters
Notes similarities and differences in settings
Understands the importance of setting on
the plot
Compares plots
Identifies who is telling the story.
Notices when a narrator is telling the story.
Identifies who is speaking using
punctuation
Identifies illustrations that support a story
Explains how illustrations add meaning to
the words in a story.
ELA Evidence of Learning/October 2013
Assessment
Ideas
Response to
Literature—formal
entries from
Reading Response
Journal
Plot Map*
Compare and
Contrast Map**
Date/Task
EVIDENCE OF LEARNING—Quarter 1
GRADE 2
Key Ideas
and Details
READING/Informational Text
Common Core
Suggested Learning Targets
Standards
RI.2.1.
 Asks questions about details
Ask questions
 Answers questions about details
Answer questions
Assessment
Ideas
Short research
projects
Structure
Craft and
None in
quarter 1
Extends
Knowledge
RI.2.9
Specific images
clarify text (e.g.
graph, map,
chart)
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Identifies illustrations that support a story
Explains how illustrations add meaning to the
words in a story
Word Recognition
READING/Foundational Skills
RF.2.3
 Reads words with long and short vowel
Decoding of
patterns.
Syllables,
 Knows spelling-sound correspondences for
Sounds &
additional common vowel teams
Words
 Decodes common vowel teams
 Uses consonant sounds accurately in beginning,
medial and final positions
 Uses blends an, digraphs, and diphthongs
 Applies basic syllabication rules to decode
words in text
RF.2.4
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Fluency
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2
Reads on-level text with purpose and
understanding.
Reads on-level text orally with accuracy .
Reads with increasing rate and expression.
Uses a variety of strategies to “fix up” reading
miscues.
ELA Evidence of Learning/October 2013
Evidencebased
paragraph
writing in
content area
Record own
reading and
analyze
Fluency
Rubric**
Date/Task
EVIDENCE OF LEARNING—Quarter 1
GRADE 2
LANGUAGE ARTS/Writing
Suggested Learning Targets
Common Core
Standards
Multiple Types of
Writing
W.2.3
Narrative
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Produce and
Publish Writing
W.2.5
Review and
Revise Writing
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Use
Research
Skills
W.2.8
Shared
Research
Activity
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Places story events in the correct order
Writes my own story with events placed in the
correct order
Describes actions, thoughts, and feelings in my
story
Uses words to show changes in time (e.g. before,
during)
Creates an ending for my story
Revises own writing (e.g. reading aloud, checking
for misunderstandings, adding and deleting
details) with the help of others
Edits my writing by checking for errors in
capitalization, punctuation, spelling, etc.
Date/Task
Writing
Samples
Researches a topic with others
Works with others to write about a research topic
Conventions of English
LANGUAGE ARTS/Conventions
Common Core
Suggested Learning Targets
Standards
L.1.1
 Uses collective nouns.
Conventions of
 Identifies irregular plural nouns and use them
standard English
correctly.
 Capitalizes holidays, product names, and
geographic names.
 Uses commas in greetings and closings of
letters.
 Uses a dictionary to check and correct spelling.
 Uses common spelling patterns when writing
words.
 Uses formal and information English when
appropriate
3
Assessment
Ideas
Writing
Samples
ELA Evidence of Learning/October 2013
Assessment
Ideas
Writing
Sample
Date/Task
EVIDENCE OF LEARNING—Quarter 1
GRADE 2
Patterns of Spelling
LANGUAGE ARTS
L.2.2
Capitalization,
punctuation, and
spelling when
writing
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Uses end-punctuation for sentences.
Accurately spells words with common spelling
patterns.
Accurately spells words with irregular spelling
patterns that occur frequently.
Writes unknown words using the sounds I hear.
(representations approximate accurate
representation of consonant sounds)
Acquires New Vocabulary
L.2.3
Knowledge of
Language in
Speech
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Uses conventional Standard English in formal
settings
L.2.4
Clarify meaning
of unknown
words
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Uses context clues to determine the meaning of
a word or phrase.
Uses the meaning of a prefix to determine the
meaning of a word.
Uses a known root words to determine the
meaning of an unknown word with the same
root.
Uses the meaning of individual words to predict
the meaning of compound words.
Uses glossaries and dictionaries to determine
the meaning of words.
Uses words and their use (e.g. describe foods
that are spicy or juicy.)
Determines the shades of meaning between
similar words (e.g. thin, slender, skinny,
scrawny).
Discovers new words and phrases through
reading, listening, and conversation.
None in Quarter 1
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Clarify
definitions of
multi-meaning
words
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L.2.5
Figurative
Language
Presents Knowledge
and Ideas
SL.2.3. Ask and
answer questions
about information
from a speaker,
offering
appropriate
elaboration and
detail
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I can ask questions about information someone
shares from a book.
I can answer questions about information I share
from a book.
ELA Evidence of Learning/October 2013
*Plot Map: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/exploring-comparecontrast-structure-54.html?tab=6
**Fluency Rubric: http://books.heinemann.com/comprehending/pdfs/ScaleForAssessingFluency.pdf
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