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Chicopee Public Schools:
English Language Learners Curriculum
Grade: 2 Subject: English Strand: Reading / Literature
Academic Benchmarks / Skills:
1. Demonstrate understanding of the various features of written English. (HM 7.4)
2. Demonstrate orally that phonemes exist (HM7.5)
3. Recognize common irregularly spelled words by sight. (HM 7.6)
4. Use letter-sound knowledge to decode written English. (HM 7.7)
5. Make predictions about what will happen next in a story, and explain whether they are confirmed or disconfirmed and why. (HM 8.6)
6. Retell a story’s beginning, middle, and end. (HM 8.7)
7. Distinguish cause from effect. (HM 8.8)
8. Make predictions about the content of the text using prior knowledge and text features, and explain whether they are confirmed or disconfirmed and why. (HM 8.9)
9. Restate main ideas. (HM 8.10)
10. Identify similarities in plot, setting, and character among the works of an author or illustrator. (HM 9.1)
11. Identify different interpretations of plot, setting, and character in the same work by different illustrators. (HM 9.2)
12. Distinguish among common forms of literature and identify such differences. (HM 10.1)
13. Relate themes in works of fiction and nonfiction to personal experience. (HM 11.1)
14. Identify the elements of plot, character, and setting in a favorite story. (HM 12.1)
15. Identify and use knowledge of common textual and graphic features in order to gain meaning from a variety of informational materials. (HM 13.1)
16. Identify a regular beat and similarities of sounds in words in responding to rhythm and rhyme in poetry. (HM 14.1)
17. Identify the senses implied in words appealing to the senses in literature and spoken language. (HM 15.1)
18. Identify familiar forms of traditional literature read (ex. Fairy tales) read aloud. (HM 16.1)
19. Retell or dramatize traditional literature. (HM 16.2)
20.Identify and predict recurring phrases (“Once upon a time”) in traditional literature. (HM 16.3)
21. Identify the elements of dialogue and use them in their own informal plays. (HM 17.1)
22.Rehearse and perform stories, plays, and poems for an audience using eye contact, volume, and clear enunciation appropriate to the selection. (HM 18.1)
ELL Benchmarks (ELPBO)
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R2.3d Identify upper- and lower-case letters, parts of words, and whole words.
R2.3e Locate distinctive features of words, letters, parts of words, and whole words.
R2.3f Recognize that written words are separated by spaces.
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R2.1d Participate in choral reading.
R2.1g Recognize that printed text can provide information.
R2.2c Read familiar high-frequency, irregularly spelled words by sight.
R2.2e Spell previously learned words and phrases.
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R1.4a Identify ways in which orthographic conventions signal meaning in various kinds of sentences.
R1.4b Identify the structures and functions of contractions.
R1.4e Identify subject-verb agreement in a simple sentence.
R2.1e Recite memorized parts of chants, pattern books, and familiar books. |
R1.4c Identify the four basic parts of speech.
R1.4d Recognize the subject – predicate relationship.
R1.4f Distinguish between a complete sentence and sentence fragment.
R1.4g Recognize verbs whose definitions change when prepositions are added to them.
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R2.3g Recognize that printed sentences are made up of separate words.
R2.4a Recognize that a phoneme is one distinct sound.
R2.4d Recognize rhyming words in English.
R2.4e Produce rhyming words in English using activities such as word games.
R2.4f Demonstrate understanding that words are made up of syllables.
R2.5a Identify the initial sounds of familiar words.
R2.5b Identify the final sounds of familiar words. |
R2.2e Spell previously learned words and phrases.
R2.3a Match symbols, pictures, and / or letters with words or ideas.
R2.5d Demonstrate knowledge of consonant blends, using recognizable words.
R2.5e Demonstrate knowledge of long- and short-vowel patterns, using recognizable words.
R2.6c Demonstrate knowledge of vowel diagraphs, vowel diphthongs, and r-controlled letter-sound association by reading.
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R2.1f Use text as well as illustrations to gain meaning of text.
R2.1h Recognize that printed text can provide entertainment.
R2.2d Read phrases containing previously learned words as units of meaning.
R2.7b Apply knowledge of letter patterns to identify syllables.
R2.7d Decode phonetically regular, multi-syllabic words.
R2.8a Comprehend a word in its context, using self-monitoring.
R3.1c Identify a main event from a story.
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R2.8b Rephrase information that has been read in order to demonstrate understanding of a word in its context.
R3.1e Retell a main event from a story.
R3.1f Restate important information, using prior knowledge and / or visual cues from an informational text.
R3.2b Identify facts that answer the reader’s questions in a text.
R3.3b Identify and select main ideas and important facts in a text.
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R2.5c Identify the medial sounds of familiar words.
R2.6a Recognize letter-sound matches by identifying and naming each letter of the alphabet.
R2.6b Demonstrate knowledge that written words are composed of letters that represent sounds.
R2.6e Match letters to sounds to decode simple unknown words.
R2.7a Decode unknown words using word patterns.
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R2.9b Recognize common abbreviations.
R3.1b Make predictions about important information before reading an informational text, using prior knowledge, text features, and visual cues.
R3.1g Identify the beginning, meddle, and end of a story.
R3.1i Identify the characters and setting of a story.
R3.4c Identify the speaker of a poem or a story.
R3.6b Preview text features to predict meaning. |
R3.4f Distinguish fact from opinion in a text.
R3.5b Relate fiction and non-fiction texts to personal experience and background knowledge.
R3.6c Pause while reading silently to check that information makes sense.
R4.1a Identify characteristics specific to common genres of literature.
R4.1b Identify differences in characteristics among genres in literature.
R4.2a Identify words that appeal to the senses in language and literature that is heard. |
R3.3c Rephrase main idea(s) and important facts in a text that is read.
R3.3d Identify differences between retelling and summarizing a text.
R3.4e Describe setting, characters, and / or events in a text, and support opinions about them with evidence from the text.
R3.4g Draw a conclusion from a text.
R3.5a Identify a theme as a lesson in folktales, fables, and myths.
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R4.3b Identify the elements of a story read in class.
R4.4b Identify various patterns of repetition in poems.
R4.5a Identify recurring phrases in nursery rhymes, fables, fairy tales, lullabies, and myths.
R4.5b Predict recurring phrases in nursery rhymes, fables, fairy tales, lullabies, and myths.
R5.4b Identify chronological order found in text.
R6.1b Generate questions to guide research on a topic of interest.
R6.3a Participate in small-group work to plan and complete a research project. |
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