Year 2 English Curriculum
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Reading Daily individual reading, story time Stories with familiar settings – ‘Press Play’- Anne Fine ‘The Hodgeheg’ – D King-Smith Fairy tales Poetry presentation features Comprehension skills Writing Multi-modal texts – Fairy tales, non-fiction Story settings Writing instructions Sentence writing Christmas poems Nelson Handwriting Skills Sentences & basic punctuation Alphabetical order Speech marks Question marks, Exclamation marks Commas in lists Nouns Adjectives Plurals Possessive pronouns homophones |
Reading Daily individual reading, story time Non-fiction texts Play scripts Poetry Comprehension skills Writing Multi-modal texts - Play scripts, non-fiction Writing instructions Play scripts Flow charts Skills Alphabetical order Sentences Adverbs Verb – ‘to be’ Regular & irregular past tenses Proofreading Expanding a sentence Conjunctions Plurals Dictionary work |
Reading Daily individual reading, story time Stories by a significant author – Dick King-Smith ‘Treasure Island’ Usborne version Comprehension skills Writing Story writing Rhyming couplets Drama texts Skills Using a thesaurus Proofreading Prefixes Apostrophe for possession Contractions Prepositions Homophones Suffixes – ‘-ing’, ‘-er’, ‘-est’ Revising parts of speech – nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions |