Alabama: Second Grade and your state's standards

Alabama's standards by subject

Grade 2 topics your state adds or places differently

• ELA: children practice cursive writing strokes (undercurve, overcurve, downcurve and slant) in Grade 2.

  Add at home

  Add 10 minutes of cursive practice 3 times a week from Week 19: on lined paper, practice one stroke a session (undercurve, overcurve, downcurve, slant) with a row of each, then start the lowercase letters that use it, such as i and t for the undercurve.

• Social studies: children find examples of goods made in Alabama that are traded with other places.

  Partly covered

  Weeks 26 and 30 teach goods and trade. Add a 15-minute hunt: look up a few goods made or grown in Alabama in a library book or on the state's website, then talk about where they might travel and what Alabama gets back in trade.

• Social studies: children explain how Alabama's natural resources, such as cotton and food crops, are used in its economy.

  Partly covered

  Week 11 teaches natural resources and how people use them, and Week 20 shows how George Washington Carver helped farmers with their crops. Add a 15-minute talk: using a state book or website, list Alabama crops such as cotton and draw how one goes from the field to something people buy.

• Social studies: children learn Alabama's connections to national holidays, such as Veterans Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

  Partly covered

  Week 17 teaches Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Veterans Day. Add 15 minutes that week to look up with your child how each holiday connects to Alabama (for example, Dr. King lived and led the bus boycott in Montgomery) and add the facts to the calendar strip.