Pennridge School District Elementary Progress Report Student and Parent Guide

Grade 2

Purpose of the Progress Report The Elementary Progress Report is intended as a way to communicate a student’s classroom achievement during the school year. In addition to an overall rating in each subject, the district strives to provide feedback to students and parents focused on academic and social strengths and areas where a student should strive for improvement. This document is intended to serve as a guide for students and parents as they interact with the progress report.

Core Subjects Students receive a “letter grade” using the primary grading scale (O, S, N, U) as an overall score for each of the four core subjects. There is additional information provided for each subject in the form of standards. This feedback is intended to help the students and parents understand whether each standard is an area where the student is demonstrating a strength (exceeding expectations), meeting expectations, or needs improvement.

Reading Grade Students will earn an overall grade based on the primary grading scale referenced above. The standards listed below will be described as an area of strength, meeting expectations, or needing improvement. Applies skills to decode words Evidence: short and long vowels, consonant blends, endings, contractions, plurals, syllables, prefixes, suffixes, abbreviations, silent consonants Reads with fluency Evidence: reading rate, reading accuracy, attending to punctuation, reading with expression/intonation, expressing characterization Applies vocabulary skills and strategies Evidence: high frequency words, using context clues, using word structure, using a dictionary/glossary Applies comprehension skills and strategies Evidence: questioning, communicating background knowledge, text structure, visualizing, predicting, setting purpose, communicating important ideas, sequencing, communicating character, setting, plot and theme, drawing conclusions, identifying cause/effect, identifying fact/opinion, Applies strategies to analyze literature and informational texts Evidence: summarizing, communicating story structure, inferring, communicating main idea and details, generalizing, comparing and contrasting, communicating author’s purpose, using/citing text evidence to support ideas

Pennridge School District Elementary Progress Report Student and Parent Guide

Grade 2

Language Arts Grade Students will earn an overall grade based on the primary grading scale referenced above. The standards listed below will be described as an area of strength, meeting expectations, or needing improvement. Uses appropriate grammar and conventions in writing Evidence: subjects, predicates, nouns, singular and plural nouns, verbs, verbs and tense (past, present, future), adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, contractions, capital letters Writes with style, organization, focus, and content Evidence: personal narratives, expository paragraph, realistic story, word choice, narrative nonfiction, biography, voice, folk tale, narrative poem, friendly letter, thank you note, journal entry Verbally communicates information Evidence: narrating in sequence, dramatizing, giving directions, answering questions, making introductions, verbally summarizing, giving a description, making an announcement, characteristics of speaking well Effectively listens to speakers Evidence: characteristics of attentive listening, following directions, summarizing information (listening), listening for facts and opinions

Math Grade Students will earn an overall grade based on the primary grading scale referenced above. The standards listed below will be described as an area of strength, meeting expectations, or needing improvement. Applies math facts and skills Evidence: counting, reading, writing, and modeling whole numbers, identifying place-value, counting by 1s, 2s, 5s, 10s, and 100s past 1,000 and back by 1s, 10s, and 100s from any number less than 1,000, comparing whole numbers up to 10,000, modeling and describing fractions, demonstrating automaticity with all addition facts through 10+10 and fluency with related subtraction facts, estimating and solving problems involving addition and subtraction of multi-digit whole numbers, estimating length with and without tools to the nearest inch and centimeter, reading and writing money amounts in dollars-and-cents notation, making exchanges between coins and bills, calculating and comparing values of coin and bill combinations, reading temperature on both the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales, telling and showing time to the nearest five minutes on an analog clock Uses appropriate strategies to reason, solve problems, and justify solutions Evidence: modeling multiplication and division problems using various strategies, working with fact families, interpreting data using tables, charts, line plots, and graphs, describing strategies used, applying strategies such as drawing a diagram/picture, making a table, etc., explaining answers Communicates and represents mathematical ideas and data Evidence: collecting, organizing, and representing data using tables, charts, line plots, and graphs, exploring and describing number patterns, rules for number sequences, relations between numbers, and attributes, using math vocabulary to explain ideas

Pennridge School District Elementary Progress Report Student and Parent Guide

Grade 2

Science Grade Students will earn an overall grade based on the primary grading scale referenced above. The standards listed below will be described as an area of strength, meeting expectations, or needing improvement. Demonstrates knowledge of content and concepts in science Evidence: demonstrating understanding of key concepts related to weather, states of matter, and plants through discussion and writing, understanding and using scientific vocabulary to describe ideas, observations, and explanations, applying scientific knowledge during investigations and to solve problems Applies scientific skills (e.g., classification, observation, prediction) Evidence: observing, comparing, and contrasting objects, organisms, and events using multiple senses and simple tools (e.g., hand lens, ruler, balance), describing observations quantitatively and qualitatively using descriptive referents and measurements, grouping objects by one or more properties and explaining the rule used for groups, regrouping objects based on a new property, predicting the outcome of an investigation using prior knowledge or evidence and explaining the reasons for predictions, drawing reasonable inferences based on observed patterns and relationships, using standard units (e.g., inches, centimeters) and nonstandard units of measure (e.g., paper clips) to measure and estimate size, weight, and temperature, communicating observations, data, and findings using pictures, drawings, graphs, and verbal/written descriptions Applies scientific processes (e.g. experimentation, inquiry) Evidence: asking “what happens when…” questions based on prior experiences and observations of objects, organisms, or events in the classroom and outside environment, generating simple hypotheses by stating the expected outcome of an investigation or experiment (e.g., I think…because…), following simple procedures to investigate science questions, identifying and describing patterns and relationships, comparing what happened in an investigation with what was predicted to happen, representing and interpreting data in bar graphs and pictographs, summarizing and explaining observations/data

Social Studies Grade Students will earn an overall grade based on the primary grading scale referenced above. The standards listed below will be described as an area of strength, meeting expectations, or needing improvement. Demonstrates knowledge of content and concepts in social studies Evidence: understand geography, government and services, needs and wants, traditions, rules and laws, and culture for the community, the United States, and other countries around the world Understands and accepts ideas from different sources of information Evidence: explore and use varied media (print materials, maps, diagrams, text, pictures, digital images, videos, artifacts, and people) to learn about the community and other places around the world Communicates and supports personal ideas and opinions Evidence: communicate information about different places, compare and contrast different cultures, geography, traditions, needs and wants, and rules of different places, express ideas and opinions about different places and people

Pennridge School District Elementary Progress Report Student and Parent Guide

Grade 2

Core Subject Teacher Comments Purpose: Teachers provide comments as a way to communicate important feedback to the student and parent that is not already on the progress report. The comments provide additional input about academic achievement and social growth during the marking period.

Skills Used Across Subjects (Integrated Skills) The Pennridge elementary program encourages the development and use/application of research and computer skills in all classes. Uses research skills Evidence: exploring information, collecting information, stating the title and author of print materials, finding evidence from text, summarizing information, comparing texts, communicating learning from different resources Uses computer skills Evidence: communicating through writing and visuals, simple keyboarding, opening appropriate programs, saving, comprehension of digital media, simple searches (Internet, databases)

Behaviors and Social Growth Purpose: The development of effective and appropriate work habits and social behaviors is an important part of the experience for all elementary students. We also feel it is important to provide you with feedback about behavioral and social growth. The teacher comments may also include information about behavior and social growth. Works and cooperates with others Completes assignments accurately and uses time wisely Participates in classroom activities and stays on task Follows directions Accepts suggestions and advice Shows respect for property, self, and others

Special Area Subjects Art Uses appropriate communication skills to discuss artwork Evidence: identifying different subject matter, using symbols in art, describing color, texture, lines, and symmetry, Uses creative thinking and problem-solving skills to develop artwork Evidence: representing ideas through art, creating art inspired by other art, music, poetry, or stories, using symbols in art

Pennridge School District Elementary Progress Report Student and Parent Guide

Grade 2

Applies appropriate skills, techniques, and processes to create artwork Evidence: understanding line, shape, position, size, and symmetry, identifying primary and secondary colors, mixing colors, understanding warm and cool colors, creating texture through sculpture, working with fibers and textiles, developing shapes for use in mixed media, using textures

Health Understands concepts related to health Evidence: understands safety (bus, pedestrian, emergency, stranger, sun, bites/stings, water safety), fitness and nutrition, growth and development (skeletal, circulatory, and respiratory systems), personal health, dental health, effects of drugs, relationships and self-esteem (social skills, differences) Demonstrates healthy communication and decision making skills Evidence: classroom discussions, role play, communicate healthy choices, practice decision-making skills

Music Demonstrates effective skills in reading and writing music Evidence: identifying notes (whole, half, quarter, eighth) and rests, compose two and four beat rhythm patterns, identifying standard notation and melodic contour, describing sections of music – verse/refrain, AB, and ABA form Applies learned skills when performing music Evidence: performing a variety of beats and rhythms, echo singing, responding to melody with movement, responding to harmony with movement, playing instrumental accompaniments, tracking songs that contain musical symbols

Physical Education Actively and effectively participates in a variety of physical activities Evidence: develop throwing, catching, and kicking skills, participation in fitness activities, demonstrate movement skills (skipping, swinging, kneeling, twisting), completing elements of challenge courses Understands and uses concepts related to physical activities and sportsmanship Evidence: demonstrating cooperation skills and respecting choices of classmates, following signal and verbal commands and directions, moving within boundaries or markers

Special Area Subject Teacher Comments Special area subject teachers have the opportunity to provide comments as a way to communicate important feedback to the student and parent that is not already on the progress report. The comments provide additional input about academic achievement and social growth during the marking period. The comment will be accompanied by the subject/class so it is clear to the student and parent where the comment is coming from.