2nd Grade SAT Objectives:

The student will be able to:

1. determine explicit supporting details (SAT 9)

2. determine explicit action or sequence of events (SAT 9)

3. draw conclusions from details

4. extract implicit theme or main idea

5. provide support for conclusions

6. discern reality from make-believe

7. identify characteristics of genre

8. select an appropriate reading strategy in a given situation

9. set purpose for reading

10. form hypotheses from ideas in text

11. analyze author’s purpose, assumptions, or viewpoint

12. determine likely source of text

13. determine unknown words from context

14. discern speaker’s voice

15. apply ideas from text to a new situation

16. generalize beyond text

17. determine author’s purpose

18. determine if needed information is within text


The above standards apply to literary (stories), informational (textbook) and functional (newspaper, schedules, etc.) reading.