2nd grade Instructional Guide

English Language Arts Standards

The ELA standards are presented in a variety of ways to help educators discern when particular standards demand more or less attention. Utah Core Standards are included to provide a reference of your grade-level standards in Speaking and Listening (SL), Reading (R), and Writing (W). These standards are included for your grade-level to support focus for instruction to ensure that students gain adequate mastery of a range of skills and applications. ELA Standards Vertical Alignment of Standards provides a K-6 overview of each ELA standard. The skills students should have mastered in previous grade levels are represented in black text, while red text indicates a skill or understanding that is new to each grade level. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade-level specific standards, and retain or further develop skills and understandings from the preceding grades. The vertical alignment of standards helps teachers to plan and support students on this learning continuum. Embedded ELA Grade Level Standards includes standards that are not represented as targeted standards during the learning progressions. Instead the ELA standard is used as a skill or application daily or weekly enabling work on standards to be frequent. The following embedded standards page outlines those standards and provides a rationale for not being represented in the instructional guide. Throughout the course of the school year, teachers should refer to these standards to ensure students develop an understanding of all grade-level standards. A tool for aligning standards to increase the number of students earning an ACT composite score of 18 or higher can be found here. ELA is a spiral curriculum that steps up in complexity of the standards therefore, all grade levels play an important part in ensuring college and career readiness. The attached document highlights important connections between the ACT and the Utah Core Standards. Teacher’s understanding and teaching the connections between the Utah Core Standards and the ACT will support students to be College and Career Ready.

Considerations for Educators —---------------------- ● Plan and teach

using the Utah Core standards

● Use district adopted

curriculum to teach the Utah Core standards.

● Set clear

standards based learning intentions and success criteria.

● Use frequent, ongoing assessment of standards to drive daily instruction.

● Provide

opportunities for practice and

extension basedon formative assessment outcomes.

● Communicate student

progress toward masteryof grade level standards.

Grade Level Standards Links: Kindergarten K-Core Guide

1stgrade 1-Core Guide 4thgrade 4-Core Guide

2ndgrade 2- Core Guide 5thgrade 5-Core Guide

3rdgrade 3- Core Guide