1. RCPS Grade 2 ELA Updates Quarter 3 Elementary Collaborative
RCPS Department of English Language Arts
Sherry Boudreaux, Reading Coach
Andrea McMahan, Reading Coach
Dr. Erika Tucker, Coordinator

2. Topics Q2 ELA Benchmark Target Standards for Growth
Activities to Re-teach Target Standards for Growth
Q3 Required Tasks
Q3 Benchmark Format
Activities for Opinion Writing

3. Q2 ELA Benchmark Target Standards for Growth
Percentage of Students Beginning/ Developing
Standard
78.7%
ELAGSE2RL1: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
78.9%
ELAGSE2RL5: Describe the overall structure of a story including describing how the beginning introduces the story, the middle provides major events and challenges, and the ending concludes the action
78.6%
ELAGSE2RL7: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot

4. Activities to Re-teach Target Standards for Growth
Activities from
Reading Wonders
Activities from The Reading Strategies Book by J. Serravallo
Comprehension Skill Interactive: Main Idea and Key Details Mini- Lesson
Interactive Games and Activities- Comprehension Practice: Main Idea and Key Details
Tier 2 Intervention Workbook- Comprehension Books
Chapter 8: Main Idea
o 8.1 One Text, Multiple Ideas (or Topics)
o 8.3 Topic/Subtopic/Details
o 8.11 Add Up Facts to Determine Main
Idea
o 8.19 Consider Structure
Chapter 9: Determining Key Details
o 9.13 Importance versus Interesting
o 9.19 Event Connections
Chapter 5: Story Structure
o 5.1 Lean on the Pictures
o 5.3 Summarizing What’s the Most
Essential
o 5.4 Uh-oh…Phew
o 5.16 Summarizing with “Somebody...Wanted...But...So”

5. Q3 Required Tasks Reading: Writing: 1 Extended Text
Suggested Literary: Sarah, Plain & Tall; The Fire Cat, My Father’s Dragon
Suggested Informational: MLK & The March on Washington; So You Want to Be President; Art Around the World; Boy, Were We Wrong about Dinosaurs
2-3 Thematically Connected Short Literary Texts (See Pacing Guide)
2- 3 Thematically Connected Informational Texts (See Pacing Guide)
Writing:
2 Opinion Pieces (only one should be a formal essay)
1 Shared Research Task (Social Studies/Science Integration)

6. Q3 Benchmark Format Q3 Benchmark Topics 40 Multiple Choice Questions
Cumulative
Q3 Standards
Q1 & Q2 Target Standards for Growth(Low Performance)
Poetry
Paired Informational Passages on the Same Topic

7. Where can I find the Suggested Reading Wonders Selections?
Paired Anthology Selections
Paired Leveled Reader Selections

8. Opinion Writing Activities
Reading Wonders
See Writers Workspace (on-line) Unit 3 Writing Tasks: Opinion
Opinion Letter Lesson (See Collab Folder)
Book Review Lesson (See Collab Folder)