- Does your child read and understand second grade fiction and nonfiction?
- Does your child explore topics of interest on their own?
- Can your child answer “how,” “why,” and “what-if” questions, and recall information, main ideas, and details after reading?
- Can your child interpret information from diagrams, charts and graphs?
- Does your child pay attention to how words are spelled and correctly spells words he has studied?
- Does your child spell a word how it sounds if she doesn’t know its spelling?
- Does your child learn new words and share them at school and home?
- Does your child learn new words from independent reading>
- Is your child increasing their vocabulary with synonyms and antonyms>
- Does your child use parts of speech correctly; nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives?