This text resource illustrates the Standards Map for the Grade 2 Reading Informational Text domain in the Common Core State Standards.
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
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Key Details
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1 - Ask (Questions)
1 - Answer (Questions)
1 - Demonstrate (Understanding to key text details)
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1 - I can ask questions [such as who, what, where, when, why, and how].
1 - I can answer questions [such as who, what, where, when, why, and how].
1 - I can demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
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A. Asking and answering informational questions (who, what, where, when, why, how) demonstrates reading understanding.
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A.1 How do I show I understand reading details?
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Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
Content | Skills | Learning Targets | Big Ideas | Essential Questions |
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Multi paragraph Text
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2 - Identify (Main topic)
2 - Identify (Focus of specific paragraphs)
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2 - I can identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text.
2 - I can identify the main topic of specific paragraphs within a multi-paragraph text.
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A. With a given multi-paragraph text it will have a main topic while the individual paragraphs have a specific focus.
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A.1 How do I find the main idea of multi-paragraph texts?
A.2 How does a specific paragraph focus contribute to the main topic of the total text?
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Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
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3 - Describe (Connection)
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1 - I can describe the connection of events, ideas, concepts, or procedural steps found in a given text.
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A. Authors produce texts that have a variety of characteristics and structures.
B. Good readers understand the connection between events, ideas/concepts or steps and use those connections to better understand text(s).
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A.1 What are the different features in information texts?
A.2 What words signal connections in informational texts?
B.1 What are the events, key ideas/concepts, or steps?
B.2 How can you show how events, key ideas/concepts, or steps are related?
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Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.
Content | Skills | Learning Targets | Big Ideas | Essential Questions |
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Meaning
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2 - Determine (Meaning)
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2 - I can determine the meanings of words/phrases.
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A. Good readers actively seek the meaning of unknown words/phrases to clarify understanding of informational text(s).
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A.1 When one reads words and phrases how do they determine the meaning presented?
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Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
Content | Skills | Learning Targets | Big Ideas | Essential Questions |
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Text Features
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1 - Know (Text features)
1 - Use (Text features)
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1 - I can know various text features to locate key facts in a text.
1 - I can use various text features to locate key facts in a text.
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A. Authors include text features to help the reader understand the text.
B. Good readers use text features to locate key facts or information in a text.
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A.1 What are the various features of a text?
B.1 How do we use the different text features to locate information?
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Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
Content | Skills | Learning Targets | Big Ideas | Essential Questions |
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Author's Text
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1 - Identify (Main purpose)
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1 - I can identify the author's purpose.
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A. Authors have different reason for writing texts.
B. The author's purpose affects what and how he/she writes.
C. Good readers identify the main purpose of a text.
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A.1 What are the different reasons a writer writes?
B.1 How does the author's purpose affect what is written?
C.1 How does one identify the main purpose found in text?
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Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.
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4 - Explain (Image contributions)
4 - Explain (Image clarification)
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4 - I can explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to a text.
4 - I can explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) clarify a text.
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A. Images can clarify a text.
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A.1 Why do texts have images?
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Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
Content | Skills | Learning Targets | Big Ideas | Essential Questions |
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Reasons
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3 - Describe (Reasons)
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3 - I can describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
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A. Reasons are used to support points of view.
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A.1 How do reasons support the author’s points?
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Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
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3 - Compare (Most important points)
3 - Contrast (Most important points)
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3 - I can compare the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
3 - I can contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
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A. Comparing and contrasting important points reveals similarities and differences in two texts on like topics.
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A.1 Why do I compare and contrast two texts on like topics?
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By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Content | Skills | Learning Targets | Big Ideas | Essential Questions |
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Informational Texts
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1 - Read (Informational texts)
2 - Comprehend (Informational texts)
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1 - I can read informational texts that are between the second and third grade level.
2 - I can comprehend informational texts that are between the second and third grade level.
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A. Scaffolding assists informational text reading.
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A.1 How can I read informational texts?
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