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.
Ohio's Learning Standards for Mathematics
Based on the Common Core, with the state's own changesAdopted 2017
Adopted February 2017. Keeps the Common Core structure and codes, with added detail such as limits on array size and money problems.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts
Based on the Common Core, with the state's own changesAdopted 2017
The 2017 standards are the current version. Revised K-8 standards were adopted in 2026, with 2026-27 as a transition year and full use from 2027-28; they add Reading Foundations and Writing Foundations (spelling and handwriting) through Grade 8.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)Ohio's Learning Standards for Science
Based on the national science framework, with the state's own changesAdopted 2018
Adopted February 2018. Ohio says its standards and the Next Generation Science Standards* were both developed from the same Framework research, but Ohio uses its own structure and places many topics in different grades.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)Ohio's Learning Standards for Social Studies
The state's own standards
Adopted February 2018. Grade 2 theme is 'People Working Together': work and jobs today and long ago, maps, rules, scarcity, and earning income.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)Science: Grade 2 covers forces and motion, which the Next Generation Science Standards* place in Kindergarten and Grade 3.
Add at homeAdd a 15-minute test: push a toy car gently and then harder, then block its path, and have your child say how each push or pull changed its motion.
Science: Grade 2 covers the air around Earth and how uneven heating by the sun changes weather, topics the Next Generation Science Standards* place in Kindergarten and Grade 3.
Partly coveredWeek 23 teaches wind as moving air. Add 10 minutes to put one thermometer (or a cup of water) in the sun and one in the shade, and compare them to see how the sun heats places unevenly.
Math: money word problems use dollars with dollars or cents with cents, never both together, and no decimals (2.MD.8).
CoveredCovered in Week 24. For Ohio, keep the dollar problems and the cent problems separate, and skip writing amounts like $1.00.
ELA (revised standards, full use from 2027-28): Grade 2 handwriting in manuscript and/or cursive (WF.2.1).
Partly coveredYour child practices manuscript in the neat final copies made each week in Publishing (for example Weeks 3, 4 and 8). If you choose cursive, add 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.
Verified: 2026-09-30. Standards change; always check your state's official page.