End-of-year targets What most 2nd graders can do by June. Every child grows at their own pace: use this list to celebrate progress and choose what to practice, not to rank.
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Reading Reads grade-level text accurately and fluently, with expression, rereading when something does not make sense Decodes two-syllable words with long vowels, and words with common prefixes and suffixes Reads tricky (irregularly spelled) words automatically Asks and answers who, what, where, when, why and how questions about a text Tells the main idea of a text and of each paragraph, and the key details that support it Makes inferences using clues from the text and what they already know Describes story structure: how the beginning introduces the story and the ending wraps it up Compares and contrasts two texts on the same topic Uses text features (headings, captions, glossary, index) to find facts quickly Math Adds and subtracts within 20 fluently and knows all sums of two one-digit numbers from memory Adds and subtracts within 100 fluently using place value Adds and subtracts within 1,000 using models, drawings and strategies, and explains why they work Understands hundreds, tens and ones; reads, writes and compares numbers to 1,000 Solves one- and two-step word problems Measures and estimates length in inches, feet, centimeters and meters Tells time to the nearest 5 minutes and solves money problems Makes and reads line plots, picture graphs and bar graphs Names shapes by their attributes and splits shapes into halves, thirds and fourths