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Research and Oral Communication

bookbag on sandThese skills, based on educational standards, outline state requirements for your child’s learning program and what Second Grade students across the state should be able to do in this subject.

For each Research and Oral Communication skill, we have listed several online activities that your child can explore themselves or that you and your child can do together.

Skill:

Gather information from books, newspapers, pictures, charts, graphs, diagrams, picture dictionaries, and nonprint sources (e.g., television, Internet)

Activities:
  • Listen & Read

    Read these interesting articles about social studies topics.

  • Learning From Websites

    Can you answer these questions on American symbols by reading websites?

  • Glossopedia

    Learn about places, animals, science facts, and more.

  • Xpeditions Atlas

    You can print maps of the world, countries, or a state.

  • Kids Have Pets

    Check out these graphs about pets.  Can you make your own graph?

Skill:

Put information into categories, such as solids or liquids

Activities:
  • Flood

    Help Cleo save the books from getting wet! Sort the books into categories.

  • Odd One Out

    Pick the odd one out from each set of words.

  • Playing Shakespeare

    Use the descriptions of Shakespeare characters to pick the right one!

Skill:

Understand and follow multi-step directions

Activities:
 
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