Second Grade is built on the national frameworks that most state standards are based on or closely resemble: the Common Core State Standards for math and English language arts, the national K-12 science framework (the Next Generation Science Standards*), and the C3 Framework for social studies. Every lesson lists the standard it teaches.
Arkansas Mathematics Standards (2023)
The state's own standardsAdopted 2023
Revised in 2023 and in effect since 2023-24. They replace Arkansas's earlier Common Core-based standards and use Arkansas's own strands (number and place value, computation and algebraic reasoning, geometry and measurement, data analysis).
Official standards (opens in a new tab)Arkansas English Language Arts Standards (2023)
The state's own standardsAdopted 2023
Revised in 2023 and in effect since 2023-24. They are organized into Arkansas's own strands, with a large foundational reading strand that includes handwriting.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)Arkansas K-12 Science Standards
Based on the national science framework, with the state's own changesAdopted 2015
K-8 standards were adopted in June 2015 and built on the Next Generation Science Standards*. The K-2 expectations were kept unchanged; changes were made in the upper grades.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)Arkansas Social Studies Standards (2022)
The state's own standards, informed by the C3 Framework
Approved in December 2022 and fully in effect by 2024-25. Grades K-4 share one document with grade-level expectations. The introduction ties its skills to the C3 Framework. Grade 2 includes the nation's founding documents, jobs and skills, natural resources and settlement, and timelines of a community's growth.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)ELA: children learn to form upper- and lowercase cursive letters in Grade 2.
Add at homeAdd 10 minutes of cursive practice 3 times a week from Week 19, starting with the lowercase letters c, a, d and g, then joining them into short words like cat and dad. Add the uppercase letters once the lowercase ones are steady.
Verified: 2026-09-30. Standards change; always check your state's official page.