• Develop an increasingly extensive sight word vocabulary
• Learn to recognize and apply more complex phonics strategies
• Write  competently for a variety of purposes and using various formats
• Students learn to differentiate between formal and informal writing
• Use more complex forms of punctuation
• Experience a variety of literary genres, understand author's purpose
• begin to think more deeply about text using comprehension strategies such as predicting, connecting, inferring, questioning, and monitoring for meaning
  

Second grade is also a year of exploration and discovery of the numbers in the world around us.

Students:

• Utilize their understanding of numbers and how they work to solve increasingly difficult problems
• Build strategies for learning basic facts and gain fluency and 'fact power' for problem solving
  
• Apply number sense to the four basic operations
• Understand the value of coins and the use of money in real life situations
• Develop spatial reasoning in relation to geometric shapes
• Understand the processes of measurement using standard and nonstandard tools
  
• Explore probability and use data
• Explore fractions and parts of whole sets and numbers