This checklist helps track essential reading skills that 2nd graders should develop.
- Phonemic Awareness
- Identify beginning sounds
- Identify ending sounds
- Blend sounds orally
- Segment sounds in words
- Rhyming words recognition
- Vocabulary
- Understand common sight words
- Learn basic antonyms
- Learn basic synonyms
- Understand homophones
- Use context clues
- Comprehension
- Answer who, what, where questions
- Retell main events
- Make predictions
- Identify main idea
- Recall details
- Fluency
- Read aloud smoothly
- Maintain appropriate pace
- Use expression while reading
- Recognize punctuation pauses
- Self-correct reading errors