2nd Grade American School Angeles City

Second grade is a year of highly visible progress in reading and language arts. The major milestones in second grade reading and language arts are:

• Developing an extensive sight word vocabulary
• Applying more complex phonics strategies
• Writing competently for many purposes
• Using punctuation appropriately
• Experiencing a variety of literary genres

Second grade is also a year of exploration and discovery of the numbers in the world around us. Major milestones for 2nd grade math include:

• Applying numbers sense to the four basic operations
• Understanding the use of money in real life situations
• Developing spatial reasoning in relation to geometric shapes
• Applying the various method s of measurement
• Exploring probability and using data