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.
New York State Next Generation Mathematics Learning Standards
Based on the Common Core, with the state's own changesAdopted 2017
Adopted by the Board of Regents in September 2017 as a revision of New York's Common Core standards; several Grade 2 standards were split, clarified or narrowed.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards
Based on the Common Core, with the state's own changesAdopted 2017
A 2017 revision of New York's Common Core ELA standards.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)New York State P-12 Science Learning Standards
Based on the national science framework, with the state's own changesAdopted 2016
Adopted December 2016 and effective July 1, 2017. NYSED says they are based on the Framework and the Next Generation Science Standards*, adapted for New York.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)New York State K-12 Social Studies Framework
The state's own standards
Grade 2 is 'My Community and Other Communities': urban, suburban and rural communities, rules and laws, community leaders, geography and resources, change over time, and jobs and needs. New York State itself is studied in Grade 4.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)Math: telling time adds the everyday terms quarter past, half past and quarter to (NY-2.MD.7).
Partly coveredWeek 23 teaches times such as 1:15, 2:30 and 9:45. Add 5 minutes a day that week saying those times as 'quarter past,' 'half past' and 'quarter to.'
Math: money problems stay within one dollar using the cent sign; New York waits until Grade 4 for decimals and the dollar sign (NY-2.MD.8). Common Core Grade 2 also includes dollar bills and the $ sign.
CoveredCovered in Week 24, which teaches coins and the cent sign. For New York, focus on the cents problems within one dollar; the dollar-sign problems are extra.
Math: the Grade 2 shape standard is sorting flat shapes into polygons and non-polygons (NY-2.G.1), in place of Common Core's standard on drawing shapes with given attributes.
Partly coveredWeek 27 names shapes by sides and vertices. Add a 10-minute sort of drawn shapes into polygons (closed, with straight sides) and non-polygons (circles, open shapes, shapes with curves).
Verified: 2026-09-30. Standards change; always check your state's official page.