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    Maryland: Second Grade and your state's standards

    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.

    Maryland's standards by subject

    Math

    Revised Maryland College and Career Ready Standards (MCCRS) for Mathematics

    Based on the Common Core, with the state's own changesAdopted 2025

    Adopted July 29, 2025 and now in use for PreK-8; a revision of Maryland's Common Core-based standards with new domain names and codes (e.g., 2.NOS) and more emphasis on strategies.

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    English Language Arts

    Maryland College and Career Ready Standards (MCCRS) for Literacy/English Language Arts

    Based on the Common Core, with the state's own changes

    Maryland has adopted revisions that keep the Common Core strands; the adoption date was not confirmed.

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    Science

    Maryland's Next Generation Science Standards*

    Uses the Next Generation Science Standards*

    Maryland uses the Next Generation Science Standards*; the adoption year was not confirmed from an official page.

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    Social Studies

    Maryland Social Studies Standards and Framework

    The state's own standards, informed by the C3 Framework

    Approved by the State Board in 2020. Grade 2 units cover communities, locations (including finding Maryland on maps), economic choices and change over time; the skills standard uses the C3 inquiry arc.

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    Grade 2 topics your state adds or places differently

    • Grade 2 math adds elapsed time to the hour and half hour (2.GR.C.8).

      Covered

      Covered in Week 23, where your child solves elapsed-time problems by counting hours and half hours on a paper clock.

    • Grade 2 math adds line symmetry, which Common Core places in grade 4 (2.GR.B.6).

      Add at home

      Add a 15-minute fold test: cut out paper shapes (a heart, a square, a circle, a letter A) and have your child fold each to find a line where both halves match, then draw that line of symmetry.

    • Grade 2 math adds problems with mixed coins and bills up to $20 (2.GR.C.9).

      Partly covered

      Week 24 teaches coins and dollar bills. Add a 15-minute pretend store with play $1, $5 and $10 bills and coins, and have your child pay for items that add up to no more than $20.

    • Grade 2 social studies has students locate Maryland on maps and globes (2.2.1.a).

      Covered

      Covered in Week 35 (locating home, town, state and country) and the My State, Part 1 add-on lesson (finding your state and capital on a map).

    Sources

    Verified: 2026-09-30. Standards change; always check your state's official page.