English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 2
Strand - Speaking and Listening
Cluster - Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
[SL.2.4] - Tell a story or recount an experience or explain how to solve a mathematical problem with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences and using appropriate vocabulary. (See grade 2 Language Standards 4-6 for specific expectations regarding vocabulary.)
- Recount
Tell about something, especially a personal experience. - Vocabulary
Words known or used by a person or group, representing concepts or ideas and meanings mutually understood; also, all the words of a language. See Academic language/vocabulary, Domain-specific language/vocabulary.
[L.2.4] -
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
[L.2.5] -
Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
[L.2.6] -
Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, activities in the grade 2 curriculum, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives to describe. (See grade 2 Reading Literature Standard 4 and Reading Informational Text Standard 4 on applying knowledge of vocabulary to reading; see grade 2 Writing Standard 5 and Speaking and Listening Standard 4 on strengthening writing and presentations by applying knowledge of vocabulary.)
[2.LS.2.3] -
Develop and use models to compare how plants and animals depend on their surroundings and other living things to meet their needs in the places they live.Clarification Statement: Animals need food, water, air, shelter, and favorable temperature; plants need sufficient light, water, minerals, favorable temperature, and animals or other mechanisms to disperse seeds.