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English Language Development — Grade 2

Goal 3. Reading — Superior

Goal 3. Reading

The learner will comprehend written English in personal, social, and academic contexts from print and non-print materials.

Level: Superior

Students will interpret conversational and academic expressions of grade-level concepts when spoken at a normal speed with no difficulties. Learning objectives focus on retelling grade-level text by using facts and details, comprehending oral presentations on all topics, narrating without difficulty, paraphrasing with fluency, speaking with correct intonation and modulation without errors, producing rhyming words independently, recognizing environmental print, demonstrating familiarity with a variety of types of literature, following three-step directions with no difficulties, composing written work in response to grade-level text, increasing reading stamina, and reading or interpreting own writing with very few errors.

Objective SU 3.01
Name all letters of the English alphabet without assistance.
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Objective SU 3.02
Identify and pronounce correctly all blends and digraphs without assistance.
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Objective SU 3.03
Use phonics knowledge of sound letter relationships sufficiently to decode regular multi-syllable words when reading grade-level text.
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Objective SU 3.04
Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of books and selections using grade-level text (e.g., storybooks, short chapter books, newspapers, telephone books, every day print such as signs, labels, poems, word plays using alliteration and rhyme, skits, short plays).
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Objective SU 3.05
Increase vocabulary, concepts, and reading stamina by reading self-selected grade-level texts independently.
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Objective SU 3.06
Demonstrate sense of story from a grade-level text (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, setting, details).
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Objective SU 3.07
Discuss and explain responses to how, why, and what if questions in sharing narrative and expository texts.
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Objective SU 3.08
Recognize all high frequency and/or common irregularly spelled words in grade-level text (e.g., where, said, two).
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Objective SU 3.09
Read aloud and self-monitor independently with fluency and comprehension any grade appropriate text.
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Objective SU 3.10
Interact with text before, during, and after reading to formulate questions that a text might answer (e.g., What will happen in this story?, Who might this be?, or Where do you think this happens?).
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Objective SU 3.11
Predict the story and explain what will happen next.
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Objective SU 3.12
Use pronunciation, sentence meaning, story meaning, and syntax to confirm accurate decoding or to self-correct errors independently.
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Objective SU 3.13
Self-monitor decoding by using one or two decoding strategies independently (e.g., beginning letters, rhymes, length of word, ending letters).
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Objective SU 3.14
Compose a variety of products in response to grade-level text (e.g., stories, journal entries, letters, response logs simple poems, oral retellings).
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