Language Arts - Grade 2

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ELO-3: Demonstrate a variety of ways to use background knowledge and interests to select and engage critically with a range of culturally diverse paper based, visual, and digital texts for pleasure and personal growth.

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Recognize the purpose and basic similarities and differences in paper-based and digital genres of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Develop an understanding that words may have similar meanings.
Continue to make connections between the language of text written with Home Language vocabulary and Standard English vocabulary.
Continue to notice and apply knowledge of how word order creates and maintains meaning.
Recognize that punctuation is used to enhance fluency, guide intonation, and demonstrate expression.
Understand that fluency assists comprehension, the mood of the text, and the intent of the text.

Apply a variety of comprehension strategies to create meaning: activating background knowledge, determining importance, visualization, prediction, inferring, synthesizing, analyzing questions, making connections.
Use illustrations and graphics in nonfiction text to ask questions, make inferences, and search for answers.
Use various tools to retell a narrative, referring to characters, the problem, and the solution.
Read simple mathematics or science problems to search for information, ask questions, and find solutions.
Demonstrate understanding through responses to text, such as artistic representations, discussions, graphic organizers, and written responses.
Follow written instructions to create an object or find a location.
Use background knowledge of community and culture to support comprehension of culturally relevant text.
Respond critically to texts by asking questions such as "what if," "is it possible that," or "what else."
Use context clues to solve unknown vocabulary.
Refer to personal and published dictionaries as a reference for new vocabulary.
Apply known oral vocabulary to text vocabulary by recognizing root words or rimes to solve unknown words.
Begin to understand the meaning of Early level prefixes and suffixes.
Create and use a personal word bank.
Continue to develop fluency by using knowledge of effective problem-solving strategies for unknown words and predictable language structures.
Self-check by using phonics, meaning, and structure clues.
Use picture cues to support or enhance graphophonic word solving.
Continue to develop meaningful use of graphophonic elements to decode.

Begin to understand how text language may describe in positive or negative ways.
Become more aware of how phrases and sentences in text language can impact meaning.

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