2nd Grade CCSS: Reading: Literature

For second graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the deeper tasks involved in reading a fictional text like a storybook or poem. No matter what they are reading, the standards require students to increase the complexity in the texts they read and deepen their understanding of the connections within and between texts. Among the complete standards for this grade, second graders will be asked to: recount stories from diverse cultures, understand how alliteration, rhyme and repeated lines work in stories, songs and poems, understand basic story structure and illustrations, recognize how characters react to events in stories and the different points of view and voice among characters, read grade appropriate literature.