Grade 2 Reading Rubric
Grade 2 Reading Rubric
Grade 2 Reading Rubric
Outcome (indicator)
Comprehension
4 - Mastery
3 - Proficient
2 - Approaching
1 - Beginning
Ineffectively or inappropriately
attempts to select and use taskrelevant before, during, and after
strategies to construct meaning when
reading.
Before:
Activates and builds upon prior
knowledge and experience
Previews text
Sets a purpose
Predicts
Before:
Activates and builds upon prior
knowledge and experience
Previews text
Sets a purpose
Predicts
Before:
Activates and builds upon prior
knowledge and experience
Previews text
Sets a purpose
Predicts
Before:
Activates and builds upon prior
knowledge and experience
Previews text
Sets a purpose
Predicts
During:
During:
During:
During:
Reading Grade 2
After:
After:
After:
After:
Recalls,
paraphrases,
and
summarizes
Recalls,
paraphrases,
and
summarizes
Recalls, paraphrases, and
Recalls, paraphrases, summarizes,
summarizes
Interprets (identifying new knowledge
Interprets (identifying new knowledge
and synthesizes
Interprets (identifying new knowledg
and insights)
and insights)
Interpreting (identifying new knowledge
Evaluates authors/creators message(s)
Evaluates authors/creators message(s) and insights)
and insights)
Evaluates authors/creators
Responds personally, giving support
Evaluates authors/creators message(s) Responds personally, giving support
message(s)
from text
from text
Responds personally, giving support
Responds personally, giving support
Views, listens, reads again, speaks, writes, and
Views, listens, reads again, speaks, writes,
from text
from text
and use other forms of representing to
Views, listens, reads again, speaks, writes, uses other forms of representing to deepen
Views, listens, reads again, speaks,
understanding and pleasure
deepen understanding and pleasure
and use other forms of representing to
writes, and use other forms of
deepen understanding and pleasure
representing to deepen
understanding and pleasure
Reading Grade 2
Pragmatic
Identifies and states reasons for reading
Textual
Recognizes and uses different text forms, features and elements
Syntactic
Recognizes and comprehends simple, compound, and complex sentences and their related punctuation including quotation marks
Uses knowledge of sentence structure to determine meaning of a sentence,
Uses punctuation to help understand what they read
Semantic/Lexical/Morphological
Recognizes basic sight vocabulary
Uses context clues
Uses knowledge of simple prefixes and suffixes and recognize the same words in different forms;
Uses individual words to predict meaning of compound words
Recognizes word play.
Phonological/Graphophonic
Uses phonics to decode individual
words
Segments all sounds of a word into individual sounds
Deletes beginning or ending sounds and tell the remaining word
Decodes individual words and sounds heard in multisyllabic words
Recognizes features of words including possessives, double vowels, multi-syllabic words
Recognizes long vowel sounds, contractions, y as a vowel sound, consonant clusters, consonant digraphs, and double vowels.
Other Cues and Conventions
Interprets and responds appropriately to non-verbal cues including facial expression and gestures
Uses and interprets conventions of texts
Recognizes and uses discernible features such as labels, headings, sounds, colours.