English Year 2 Language Language for Interacting With Others

Explore how language can be used for appreciating texts and providing reasons for preferences

Code AC9E2LA02

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39 resources

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Types of Texts

    This engaging unit for lower primary students explores how language shapes preferences and text appreciation. Students compare text organisa...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Verbs

    This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 2 Verbs Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understanding...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Types of Texts -Presentation

    This engaging presentation for lower primary explores text types, comparing narratives, informative texts, poems and brochures. Students lea...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Action Verbs - Presentation

    The Action Verbs Presentation introduces students to the concept of action verbs. It provides examples and different types of questions in r...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Achievement Standards - English

    This full-colour printable resource displays English achievement standards for Foundation to Year 6, organised by strand and ACARA code. Eac...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Types of Texts - Grading Rubric

    This marking guide provides a 5-point rubric for assessing Year 2 student responses to the Exploring and Comparing Texts assessment. It focu...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Types of Texts - Assessment

    This assessment supports Year 2 students in analysing texts to appreciate language use, identify organisational differences and compare pres...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Types of Texts - Quiz

    This quiz helps upper primary students explore how language is used to appreciate texts, express preferences and understand different text t...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Tell Me About It!

    This worksheet helps students explore how language is used to appreciate texts by identifying the title, author and type of text, summarisin...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Appreciating Texts

    This worksheet helps students develop skills in expressing opinions about texts using precise language. Featuring a poem about a water dropl...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Exploring Preferences

    This collaborative worksheet helps students learn and record their classmates' preferences using guided question stems. It focuses on practi...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Express Your Preference

    This worksheet guides students in exploring their likes, dislikes and indifference about activities, songs and movies. It includes structure...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Say it Your Way!

    This creative activity engages lower primary students in deciding how to inform or persuade the community about a new beachside resort. Stud...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Comparing and Contrasting Texts

    This graphic organiser supports students in comparing two text types, focusing on their organisation, features and purpose. It encourages cr...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Same, Same but Different

    This worksheet helps lower primary students compare narrative and informational texts by exploring their purpose, organisation and language...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Match the Features - Non-Fiction

    This matching puzzle activity helps students connect titles, descriptions and examples of common non-fiction texts. It encourages understand...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Match the Features - Fiction

    These engaging puzzles help students match common features of fictional texts, such as characters, setting, dialogue and illustrations, with...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Troublesome Texts

    This worksheet helps middle primary students distinguish between fiction and non-fiction texts. It guides them to identify text features, or...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Text Feature Finders - Colour

    Encourage critical thinking with these vibrant magnifying glass templates! Teachers can print them on thick cards or let students cut them o...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Text Feature Finders - B&W

    This resource includes a checklist for fictional and non-fictional texts and printable B&W magnifying glass templates. Students assemble the...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Feature Finder - Non-Fiction

    This interactive worksheet helps lower primary students identify non-fiction text features, such as diagrams, glossaries and captions, in a...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Feature Finder - Fiction

    This interactive worksheet helps lower primary students identify fiction text features, such as diagrams, glossaries and captions, in a fun...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Features of Texts

    Students identify the purpose of text snippets- recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, poetry and explain- by colour-coding them. This r...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Sorting Text Types

    This sorting activity lower primary students identify the main purposes of different text types: to persuade, inform, or entertain. Students...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    What is the Purpose?

    This activity introduces students to text purposes- persuade, inform and entertain- by sorting text titles into categories. It’s an engaging...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Exploring and Comparing Texts - Student Reference Card

    This student reference card provides Year 2 students with a simple overview of the unit, including key concepts such as appreciating texts,...

  • Resource Year: P F 1 2 +4

    Gesture Guess

    Similar to a game of charades, Gesture Guess challenges students to guess where and in what context they might encounter these actions, from...

  • Resource Year: P F 1 2 +4

    Expression Explorer Poster Set

    Unlock the power of emotional literacy with our Expression Explorer Poster Set! Crafted in landscape A4 format, these vibrant posters depict...

  • Resource Year: P F 1 2 +4

    Expressive Encounters

    Engage your students with our "Expressive Encounters" scenario cards! Each card features two roles and a scene, inviting students to dive in...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Wheel of Emotions Spinner

    This handy mood and emotion wheel, is a great way for students to express a variety of emotions and share how they’re feeling in a simple wa...

  • Resource Year: P F 1 2

    Fairy Tale Nouns and Adjectives Board Game

    This game is designed to practise building descriptive vocabulary and understanding the purpose of a noun and an adjective.

  • Resource Year: 2

    Verbs - Assessment

    This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 2 Verbs Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understanding...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Verb - Student Reference Card

    This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 2 Verbs Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understanding...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Verbs Are Action Words

    Engage students in the world of verbs with this dynamic resource. Through engaging examples and interactive activities, students will learn...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Verbs

    This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 2 Verbs Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understanding...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Verb Hunt

    This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 2 Verbs Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understanding...

  • Resource Year: P F 1 2

    Narrative Characterisation - Lower

    Students will explore how language is used to construct characters in narratives, including choice of nouns and choice of adjectives.

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Common Noun Activity Cards - Lvl 1

    Students will consolidate their understanding that common nouns represent people, places, animals and things. This set of activity cards...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Emotion Sketch Cards

    Emotion Sketch Cards were developed to assist lower primary students in understanding that language is used in combination with other means...

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