Strand: Reading for Literature Anchor Standard:
1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
CCSS:
RL.2.1. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Correlated WA. Standard(s):
2.R.2.1.7 WA GLE DOES NOT mention these specific orienting questions
Clarify Standard: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to
demonstrate understanding of key details in a literary text. Pacing:
Task Analysis:
• (1st) Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Read/discuss expository/narrative text
Develop an understanding of story, main idea, details and problem/solution.
Use textual evidence to support thinking.
Ask and answer questions (who, what, when, where, why, and how) to demonstrate understanding of key details.
Relate explicit key details from the text.
• (2nd) Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and
how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Vocabulary:
Prior: beginning, middle, end, characters, detail, text, question, ask, answer,
Explicit: who, what, when, where, why, and how, evidence,
sentence, plot, problem/solution, infer/inference, conclusion, main idea, genre
Introductory: passage, selection
Assessment Prompt:
• Teacher observation (formative) • Graphic organizer: GLAD story
map (summative) • DRA2/EDL2 retell format
Strand: Reading for Literature Anchor Standard:
2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
CCSS:
RL.2.2. Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Correlated WA. Standard(s): WA.2.R.2.1.3, 2.1.7, 2.2.1, 2.2.3 Clarify Standard: Retell stories, including fable and folktales from different cultures and determine the
message, lesson or moral. Pacing:
Task Analysis:
• (1st) Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of
their central message or lesson.
Read, listen to, retell stories and determine the central message using literature from diverse cultures, including folktales and fables.
Understand that characters are people who are involved in a story.
Discuss character development in terms of the characters reaction to what is taking place in the story.
Retell the story in the correct sequence, and explain the message, lesson or moral of the story.
• (2nd) Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Vocabulary:
Prior: stories, key details, message, lesson, retell Explicit:: character, literature, fables, folktales, diverse cultures, message, lesson, moral, recount, details, summarize, genre
Introductory:
Assessment Prompt:
• Teacher observation (formative) • Graphic organizer: GLAD story
map (summative) • DRA2/EDL2 retell format
Strand: Reading for Literature Anchor Standard:
3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
CCSS:
RL.2.3. Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. Correlated WA. Standard(s): WA.2.R.2.2.3 GLE DOES NOT mention character response to events
Clarify Standard: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. Pacing: Task Analysis:
• (1st) Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key
details. Determine:
o Name the characters in the story.
o State the most important events that happened in the story.
o Cite evidence of how characters in the story react to the main events. o Identify various cause/effect examples throughout the story.
o Summarize how the characters solve the problem in this story.
• (2nd)Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and
challenges.
Vocabulary:
Prior: character, setting, major event, story, key details
Explicit: challenges, cause/effect, event, analyze, interact
Introductory: sequence, order
Assessment Prompt:
• Teacher observation (formative) • Graphic organizer: GLAD story
map (summative)
• Reading Response Journal • DRA2/EDL2 retell format
Strand: Reading for Literature Anchor Standard:
4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and
figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
CCSS:
RL.2.4. Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
Correlated WA. Standard(s):
WA.2.R. 2.3.3 GLE is more sophisticated, naming literary devices.
Clarify Standard: . Describe how regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, and repeated lines supply rhythm
and meaning in a story, poem, or song. Pacing:
Task Analysis:
• (1st) Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or
appeal to the senses.
Listen to/read to a variety of text that illustrates regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, and repeated lines.
Tell how words and phrases provide meaning to a story, poem, or song. Identify and demonstrate words and phrases that provide alliteration to a story,
poem, or song.
Identify and demonstrate words and phrases that provide rhythm and beat to a story, poem, or song.
Identify and demonstrate words and phrases that provide rhyme to a story, poem, or song.
Identify and demonstrate repeated lines that provide rhyme and/or rhythm to a story, poem, or song.
• (2nd) Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration,
rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
Vocabulary:
Prior: poems, rhyme, stories, feelings, senses, words, phrases
Explicit: beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines, rhythm, meaning, song, fluency, author’s purpose
Introductory:
Assessment Prompt:
• Teacher observation (formative) • Poem Frames
Strand: Reading for Literature Anchor Standard:
5. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
CCSS:
RL.2.5. Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
Correlated WA. Standard(s):
WA.2.R.2.1.3, 2.1.7.c, 2.2.3 Asks students to use strategies to identify and understand story elements, but DOES NOT isolate story structure.
Clarify Standard: Describe how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the
action. Pacing:
Task Analysis:
• (1st) Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that
give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types. State that the purpose of the beginning/introduction is to introduce the story. State that the purpose of the ending/conclusion is to conclude the action. • (2nd) Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the
beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
Vocabulary:
Prior: beginning, middle, end
Explicit: action, story structure, introduces, concludes body, paragraph
Introductory: chapter, stanza
Assessment Prompt:
Strand: Reading for Literature Anchor Standard:
6. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
CCSS:
RL.2.6. Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
Correlated WA. Standard(s):
WA.2.R.2.3.c Asks students to identify the speaker in a story, but DOES NOT connect this to reading strategies and comprehension.
Clarify Standard: Demonstrate each character’s point of view by using different voices when reading
aloud. Pacing:
Task Analysis:
• (1st) Identify who is telling the story at various points in the text.
Identify all characters within the story.
Identify all characters’ point of view within the story.
Differentiate each character’s point of view/opinion by using a different voice when reading aloud.
• (2nd) Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including
by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
Vocabulary:
Prior: text, points (places in the story); point of view
Explicit: voice of the speaker (expression), characters, dialogue, opinion
Introductory: narrator, fluency
Assessment Prompt:
• Teacher observation (formative) • Readers Theatre
• Reading Response Journal • DRA2/EDL2
Strand: Reading for Literature Anchor Standard:
7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.*
*Please see “Research to Build and Present Knowledge” in Writing and “Comprehension and Collaboration” in Speaking and Listening for additional standards relevant to gathering, assessing, and applying information from print and digital sources.
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
CCSS:
RL.2.7. Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
Correlated WA. Standard(s):
WA.2.R.2.2.2.a DO NOT emphasize engagement with illustrations; GLE asks to use text features to understand text.
Clarify Standard:
Use illustrations and print to demonstrate understanding of characters, setting, or plot. Pacing: Task Analysis:
• (1st) Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting,
or events.
Discuss that the purpose of an illustration is to help the reader infer additional details not explicitly stated in the text.
Demonstrate understanding of the characters mood, feelings and motivation using illustrations and text.
Describe the setting using illustrations and text.
Demonstrate understanding of the plot using sequence of events, prediction, inference and/or problem and solution using illustrations and text.
• (2nd) Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or
digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
Vocabulary:
Prior: illustrations, details, character, setting, events Explicit: plot, digital, sequence,
infer/inference, predict, problem and solution, mood/feelings, motivation, graphic organizer, captions
Introductory:
Assessment Prompt:
• Graphic organizer to demonstrate an understanding of the
characters, setting, or plot of the story.
Strand: Reading for Literature Anchor Standard:
8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
CCSS:
RL.2.8. (Not applicable to literature) Correlated WA. Standard(s):
Clarify Standard: Pacing:
Task Analysis: Vocabulary:
Prior: Explicit:
Introductory:
Strand: Reading for Literature Anchor Standard:
9. Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
CCSS:
RL.2.9. Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
Correlated WA. Standard(s):
WA.2.R.2.3.1 WA does not specify that comparison is of versions of the same story.
Clarify Standard: Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella
stories) by different authors or from different cultures. Pacing:
Task Analysis:
• (1st) Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in
stories.
Compare (find similarities) in different versions of the same story. Contrast (find differences) in different versions of the same story.
• (2nd) Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g.,
Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
Vocabulary:
Prior: adventures, experiences, characters, compare and contrast, similarities/differences Explicit: versions, cultures,
compare/contrast, similarities/differences Introductory: theme
Assessment Prompt:
• Graphic organizer (e.g., VENN Diagram, T-Chart, table chart)
Strand: Reading for Literature Anchor Standard:
10. Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
Grade Level: 2nd Grade
CCSS:
RL.2.10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Correlated WA. Standard(s):
EALR WA.2.R.1, 2.R.4 Each GLE within WA EALR 1 relates to this CC standard
Clarify Standard: By the end of the year students will read and comprehend 2nd – 3rd grade text using
scaffolding as needed. Pacing:
Task Analysis:
• (1st) With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate
complexity for grade 1.
Listen to/read a variety of literary genres, including poetry.
Demonstrate comprehension of literature by identifying and interpreting essential story elements.
Read and comprehend literature at the 2nd grade level proficiently.
Read and comprehend literature at the 3rd grade level with scaffolding as needed. • (2nd) By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories
and poetry, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Vocabulary:
Prior: prose (non-verse text), poetry
Explicit: literature, comprehend, fluency, genre, variety, interpret Introductory: drama
Assessment Prompt: • Running Records • DRA2/EDL2