Kentucky Reading and Writing RF.2.1

ELA2nd GradeReading Foundational Skills

The Standard

No Print Concepts Standard for grade 2.

Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Print Concepts

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students who need a review track words across a short passage and move to the next line without skipping. They use spaces, capital letters, and end marks to find sentences.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student points to each word in a short passage without skipping or repeating a line. They show where a sentence starts and ends.
Common Misconceptions: Some students point to a whole line instead of each word or skip a line when moving back to the left. Others overlook spaces or treat punctuation as a word.
How to Assess It: Hand students a three-line passage. Ask them to point to each word as you read, then circle the first word of a sentence and its end mark.

Lesson moves

Give pairs word cards and punctuation cards, then have them build two sentences with spaces between the words.
Write 'thecatran' on the board and ask partners where to add spaces and how they know.
Play pointer relay with a four-line poem, taking turns pointing to each word as a partner reads.
Post a sign that says 'Wash your hands.' Have students point to each word and name the end mark.

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