Grade 2 writing skills that are assessed

 

Here are the Grade 2 writing skills that are assessed, based on the sources provided:

Writing Opinion and Informative Pieces: Students should be able to write opinion and informative pieces by introducing a topic, supplying supporting facts and reasons, and providing a sense of closure.

 
Writing Narratives: Students should be able to write narratives using appropriate words and sequencing, including details, transitional words, and a sense of closure.

 
Using Appropriate Grammar and Usage: Students should demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing. This includes:

• Using collective nouns.
• Forming and using the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs.
• Using reflexive pronouns.
• Producing, expanding, and rearranging complete simple and compound sentences.

Applying Mechanics: Students should demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. This includes:

• Capitalizing holidays, product names, and geographic names.
• Using an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives.
• Using generalized learned spelling patterns when writing words.

The sources also indicate that certain Grade 2 writing skills will continue to be developed and assessed in later grades, including:

Gathering Information from Sources: Students are expected to begin recalling information from experiences or gathering information from provided sources to answer a question in Grade 2, a skill that will continue to be developed in Grade 4.
Range of Writing: Students are expected to begin demonstrating a range of writing in Grade 2, a skill that will continue to be developed in Grade 4.

The sources focus primarily on writing skills within the context of English Language Arts. Information regarding writing skills assessed in other subject areas, such as science or social studies, is not available in the sources. circa 2003