OGE.3.RL
Open Global English Standards 2026™ · 2nd Grade
Reading: Literature, Literary Analysis & Poetics
Grade2nd Grade
SubjectELA
Levelstrand
Child standards (9)
- OGE.3.RL.1Ask and answer literal and inferential questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate in-depth understanding of key details and explicit ideas in literary texts.
- OGE.3.RL.2Recount stories, fables, legends, and folktales from diverse cultures and global traditions; summarize key narrative sequences and determine the central message, lesson, or moral.
- OGE.3.RL.3Describe characters, their traits, motivations, feelings, and relationships in prose and drama, analyzing how they respond to major plot events, conflicts, and challenges.
- OGE.3.RL.4Identify and describe how words and phrases, including regular beats, rhyme schemes, alliteration, repeated refrains, sensory details, and sound patterns, supply rhythm, mood, and meaning in poems, songs, chants, and stories.
- OGE.3.RL.5Describe the overall structural elements of stories, picture books, poems, and plays, explaining how beginnings introduce characters and settings, sequential events build tension, and endings provide resolution or closure.
- OGE.3.RL.6Acknowledge and distinguish differences in the points of view of characters and narrators, including altering vocal expression and intonation to reflect different character perspectives when reading dialogue aloud.
- OGE.3.RL.7Analyze how illustrations, digital media, comic strips, and visual elements combine with printed words to develop characters, depict settings, clarify mood, and advance plot events.
- OGE.3.RL.8Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story, myth, or folktale across different authors, historical periods, and world cultural traditions.
- OGE.3.RL.9Read, appreciate, and comprehend stories, poems, and dramatic texts of appropriate grade-level complexity, formulating reasoned personal preferences about literary features and themes.