| California Content Standards |
| English and Language Arts |
| Grade Two |
| Strand II. Writing |
| ELA-2.II.1.0 Writing Strategies |
| Organization and Focus |
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ELA-2.II.1.1. Group related ideas and maintain a consistent focus.
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| Strand III. Listening and Speaking |
| ELA-2.III.1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies |
| Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication |
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ELA-2.III.1.9. Report on a topic with supportive facts and details.
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| ELA-2.III.2.0 Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) |
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ELA-2.III.2.2. Report on a topic with facts and details, drawing from several sources of information.
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| Science |
| Grade Two |
| Life Sciences |
| SCI.2.2 Plants and animals have predictable life cycles. |
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SCI.2.2.a. Students know that organisms reproduce offspring of their own kind and that the offspring resemble their parents and one another.
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SCI.2.2.c. Students know many characteristics of an organism are inherited from the parents. Some characteristics are caused or influenced by the environment.
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| CSLA Standards for School Libraries |
| Standard 3 The student who is information literate uses information accurately and creatively. |
| 3.3 Communicates and Synthesizes Ideas in Logical and Creative or Novel Ways |
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3.3.1. Presents information in a variety of formats, such as word processed texts (narative, essay, poetry, drama) charts, graphs, computer graphics, and multimedia, using appropriate information and communication technology tools.
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3.3.2. presents information that visually conveys the main idea and supporting details about a topic.
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3.3.6. Presents information with both factual and conceptual understanding, drawing from multiple sources of information,and using handwritten or computer-generated notes.
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