Welbeck Primary School
Year 2 English Objectives

Year 2 English Objectives

Year 2

 

Children learn to:

 

Speak and listen for a wide range of purposes in different contexts

1.         Speaking

  • speak with clarity and use intonation when reading and reciting texts
  • tell real and imagined stories using the conventions of familiar story language
  • explain ideas and processes using language and gesture appropriately

 

2.         Listening and Responding

  • listen to others in class, ask relevant questions and follow instructions
  • listen to talk by an adult, remember some specific points and identify what they have learned
  • respond to presentations by describing characters, repeating some highlight and commenting constructively

 

3.         Group discussion and interaction

  • ensure everyone contributes, allocate tasks, and consider alternatives and reach agreement
  • work effectively in groups by ensuring each group member takes a turn challenging, supporting and moving on
  • listen to each other’s views and preferences, agree the next steps to take and identify contributions by each group member

 

 

4.         Drama

  • adopt appropriate roles in small or large groups and consider alternative courses of action
  • present part of traditional stores, own stories or work from different parts of the curriculum for members of their own class
  • consider how mood and atmosphere are created in live or recorded performance

 

Read a wide range of texts on screen and on paper

5.         Word reading skills and strategies

  • recognise less common digraphs and trigraphs, exploring word families
  • routinely apply phonic knowledge for reading unknown or difficult words
  • use syntax, context and word structure when reading for meaning
  • use knowledge of word structure to support reading, including polysyllabic words

 

6.         Understanding and interpreting texts

  • draw together ideas and information from across a whole text, using simple signposts in the text
  • give some reasons for why things happen or characters change
  • explain organisational features of texts, including alphabetical order, layout, diagrams, captions, hyperlinks and bullet points
  • explore how particular words are used, including words and expressions with similar meanings

 

7.         Engaging with and responding to texts

  • read whole books on their own, choosing and justifying selections
  • engage with books through exploring and enacting interpretations
  • explain their reactions to texts, commenting on important aspects

 

 

Write a wide range of texts on paper and on screen

 

8.         Creating and shaping texts

  • draw on knowledge and experience of texts in deciding and planning what and how to write
  • sustain form in narrative, including use of person and time
  • maintain consistency in non-narrative, including purpose and tense
  • make adventurous word and language choices appropriate to style and purpose of text
  • select from different presentational features to suit particular writing purposes on paper and on screen

 

9.         Text structure and organisation

  • use planning to establish clear sections for writing
  • use appropriate language to make sections hang together

 

10.       Sentence structure and punctuation

  • write simple and compound sentences and begin to use subordination in relation to time and reason
  • use tense consistently (present, past and imperative)
  • use question marks and use commas to separate items in a list

 

11.       Word structure and spelling

  • spell new words using phonics and a range of self-checking strategies
  • spell correctly common inflections, including plurals, tenses (-ing, -ed), words with double letters and common prefixes

 

12.       Presentation

  • write legibly, with ascenders and descenders distinguished
  • use upper and lower case letters appropriately within words
  • word process short narrative and non-narrative texts