# Grade 2: English language arts

A course roadmap (english-language-arts). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 28 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/ks-ela-grade-2

Part of: [Kansas: English language arts](https://ai.page/roadmap/ks-ela.md)

Goal: Kansas academic standards: English language arts, Grade 2

## 1. Grade 2

- [Using New Vocabulary](https://ai.page/c/using-new-vocabulary/index.md): Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, being read to, and responding to texts in own speech and writing
- [Building sentences](https://ai.page/c/building-sentences/index.md): Understand that words combine to make sentences — a sentence expresses a complete thought; produce and expand complete sentences in speech and writing
- [Reciting Poetry](https://ai.page/c/reciting-poetry/index.md): Learn poems by heart and recite with appropriate intonation, adding visual displays to descriptions when appropriate, and producing complete sentences in spoken presentations
- [Reporting & Recounting](https://ai.page/c/reporting-and-recounting/index.md): Report on a topic or recount an experience with organised facts and descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace
- [Asking Questions](https://ai.page/c/asking-questions/index.md): Ask relevant questions to extend understanding; ask and answer questions to seek help, get information, or clarify something not understood
- [Group discussions](https://ai.page/c/group-discussions/index.md): Participate actively in collaborative conversations staying on topic; continue a conversation through multiple exchanges; maintain attention in discussions
- [Starting and Ending Sentences](https://ai.page/c/starting-and-ending-sentences/index.md): Begin sentences with a capital letter and end them with the appropriate mark (full stop, question mark, or exclamation mark); recognise and name end punctuation
- [Shared Research Projects](https://ai.page/c/shared-research-projects/index.md): Participate in shared research and writing projects; recall information from experiences or gather information from sources to answer a question
- [Sharing and Publishing Your Writing](https://ai.page/c/sharing-and-publishing-your-writing/index.md): Read own writing aloud clearly enough to be heard by peers and the teacher; use digital tools to produce and publish writing
- [Revising and editing (age 7+)](https://ai.page/c/revising-and-editing-age-7/index.md): Evaluate and edit writing by assessing effectiveness, proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary for consistency, and proof-reading for spelling, grammar and punctuation errors at Y3-4 level
- [Narrative Writing](https://ai.page/c/narrative-writing/index.md): Write narratives with developed settings, characters and plot, using dialogue and description to develop experiences and show character responses to situations
- [Basic Informational Writing](https://ai.page/c/basic-informational-writing/index.md): Compose informative or explanatory texts that introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section
- [Structured Opinion Writing](https://ai.page/c/structured-opinion-writing/index.md): Compose opinion pieces that introduce a topic, state a clear point of view, provide organised reasons linked with connecting words, and include a concluding statement or section
- [Knowing What You Don't Know](https://ai.page/c/knowing-what-you-don-t-know/index.md): Monitor your own vocabulary gaps — notice words you half-know, distinguish confident from uncertain knowledge, and develop strategies to resolve the uncertainty
- [Pictures and Text Working Together](https://ai.page/c/pictures-and-text-working-together/index.md): Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear; use pictures to support and extend comprehension
- [Why the author wrote it](https://ai.page/c/why-the-author-wrote-it/index.md): Distinguish one's own point of view from that of the author of an informational text and identify the author's purpose
- [Non-Fiction Text Features](https://ai.page/c/non-fiction-text-features/index.md): Recognise different non-fiction text structures and features (headings, contents, glossary, index), understanding how texts are organised to present information
- [Grammar Terms: Nouns, Verbs and Tense](https://ai.page/c/grammar-terms-nouns-verbs-and-tense/index.md): Use and understand Year 2 grammatical terminology in discussion: noun, noun phrase, statement, question, exclamation, command, compound, suffix, adjective, adverb, verb, tense (past/present), apostrophe, comma
- [Main Topic & Key Details](https://ai.page/c/main-topic-and-key-details/index.md): Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph informational text, determine the focus of specific paragraphs, and explain how key details support the main idea
- [Connecting Ideas in Texts](https://ai.page/c/connecting-ideas-in-texts/index.md): Describe connections between events, ideas, or concepts in informational text using time, sequence, cause-and-effect, and comparison language, and identify logical connections between sentences and paragraphs
- [Reading between the lines](https://ai.page/c/reading-between-the-lines/index.md): Ask and answer questions about key details in literary and informational texts; make simple inferences based on what characters say and do
- [Comparing Characters Across Stories](https://ai.page/c/comparing-characters-across-stories/index.md): Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories; identify similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic
- [Retelling Stories with Structure](https://ai.page/c/retelling-stories-with-structure/index.md): Retell stories including key details in sequence, describe characters, settings, and major events using evidence from the text, and describe the overall structure of a story (beginning, middle, ending)
- [Characters' Viewpoints and Responses](https://ai.page/c/characters-viewpoints-and-responses/index.md): Identify and compare characters' points of view, recognise who is narrating a story, describe how characters respond to events and challenges, and compare characters' experiences across different stories or versions of the same story
- [Writing Poetry](https://ai.page/c/writing-poetry/index.md): Write poetry, exploring patterns of language, rhyme and rhythm, and learning poems by heart for recitation with appropriate intonation
- [Morals in Fables, Folktales and Myths](https://ai.page/c/morals-in-fables-folktales-and-myths/index.md): Explain how the central message, lesson, or moral of a story is conveyed through key details across diverse text types including fables, folktales, and myths
- [Reading with Expression and Accuracy](https://ai.page/c/reading-with-expression-and-accuracy/index.md): Read aloud with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression (prosody), re-reading familiar texts to build fluency and confidence, and using context to self-correct
- [Blending Sounds to Read Words](https://ai.page/c/blending-sounds-to-read-words/index.md): Apply phonic knowledge to blend sounds in unfamiliar words containing taught grapheme-phoneme correspondences; respond speedily to graphemes for all 40+ phonemes

## Health: 0 of 100

Of its 28 own concepts: 0 have an explanation, 0 have practice, 0 have a measurement question, 0 have a checked version.

Findings (each is a task for anyone's AI):

- Using New Vocabulary has no explanation yet
- Building sentences has no explanation yet
- Reciting Poetry has no explanation yet
- Reporting & Recounting has no explanation yet
- Asking Questions has no explanation yet
- Group discussions has no explanation yet
- Starting and Ending Sentences has no explanation yet
- Shared Research Projects has no explanation yet
- Sharing and Publishing Your Writing has no explanation yet
- Revising and editing (age 7+) has no explanation yet
- Narrative Writing has no explanation yet
- Basic Informational Writing has no explanation yet
- Structured Opinion Writing has no explanation yet
- Knowing What You Don't Know has no explanation yet
- Pictures and Text Working Together has no explanation yet
- Why the author wrote it has no explanation yet
- Non-Fiction Text Features has no explanation yet
- Grammar Terms: Nouns, Verbs and Tense has no explanation yet
- Main Topic & Key Details has no explanation yet
- Connecting Ideas in Texts has no explanation yet
- Reading between the lines has no explanation yet
- Comparing Characters Across Stories has no explanation yet
- Retelling Stories with Structure has no explanation yet
- Characters' Viewpoints and Responses has no explanation yet
- Writing Poetry has no explanation yet
- Morals in Fables, Folktales and Myths has no explanation yet
- Reading with Expression and Accuracy has no explanation yet
- Blending Sounds to Read Words has no explanation yet

Credit: The structure of Kansas academic standards: English language arts (https://community.ksde.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=lRPEqFzIgQA%3d&tabid=5280); concepts from the Marble Skill Taxonomy (v1), © Generative Spark, Inc. (withmarble.com), text CC BY-SA 4.0, database ODbL 1.0: https://github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy, mapped to its standards by Marble.