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.
2025 South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards
The state's own standardsAdopted 2023
Approved December 12, 2023 (small corrections July 2026), replacing the 2015 standards. Uses South Carolina's own strands: Numerical Reasoning; Patterns, Algebra and Functional Reasoning; Measurement, Geometry and Spatial Reasoning; Data, Probability and Statistical Reasoning.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)2024 South Carolina College- and Career-Ready ELA Standards
The state's own standardsAdopted 2023
Approved January 17, 2023 (amended August 2025). State law requires cursive to be taught so children can write legibly in cursive by the end of Grade 5.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards 2021
Based on the national science framework, with the state's own changesAdopted 2021
Approved June 14, 2021, and informed by the Framework and the Next Generation Science Standards*. Grade 2 matches the national list plus one added standard.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)2019 South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Standards for Social Studies
The state's own standards
K-3 approved May 14, 2019. Grade 2 is 'Life in the United States': U.S. symbols and events, landforms, cultures, founding documents, and money. Revised Social Studies and Civics standards were out for public review in September-October 2026.
Official standards (opens in a new tab)Science: design solutions to human impacts on natural resources in the local environment (2-ESS3-1). The Next Generation Science Standards* cover this in Kindergarten and Grade 5.
CoveredCovered in Week 28, where your child designs a device to keep litter or oil out of a model pond, and Week 11, which plans a way to conserve a natural resource.
Math: make a one-step adding or subtracting rule for number patterns within 100. Common Core starts number-pattern work in Grade 3.
Partly coveredWeek 4 finds skip-counting patterns and Week 10 adds and subtracts 10. Add a 10-minute 'What's My Rule?' game: you say 3 numbers in a pattern (12, 15, 18) and your child names the rule (add 3) and the next number.
Social studies: Grade 2 includes budgeting, wants and needs, income, saving and spending.
CoveredCovered in Week 25 (needs and wants), Week 28 (saving, spending and earning money for work) and Week 31 (a limited budget).
Verified: 2026-09-30. Standards change; always check your state's official page.