Second grade: What your child should know
Keep tabs on your second-grader's development with this handy checklist.
No two kids are alike, especially when it comes to hitting developmental benchmarks. But it helps to have a rough idea of which academic and social skills your child should acquire at his or her grade level. Learn more about the second-grade classroom in these subject areas: reading, writing, language arts, math, science, technology, social studies, art, music, and physical education.
By the end of the year, you can expect your child to:
- Begin to reason and concentrate
- Improve his ability to process information
- Work cooperatively with a partner or small group
- Understand the difference between right and wrong
- Make connections between concepts so he will be better able to compare and contrast ideas
- Expand his vocabulary
- Read fluently with expression
- Recognize most irregularly spelled words such as because and upon
- Begin to use a dictionary
- Add single- and multi-digit numbers with regrouping
- Tell time to the quarter-hour
- Know the concept of multiplication (for example, 2 x 3 is two rows of three)
