English · Year 2

Understand that spoken, visual and written forms of language are different modes of communication with different features and their use varies according to the audience, purpose, context and cultural background ACELA1460 Understand that language varies when people take on different roles in social and classroom interactions and how the use of key interpersonal language resources varies depending on context ACELA1461 Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things ACELA1462

Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose ACELA1463 Understand how texts are made cohesive through language features, including word associations, synonyms, and antonyms ACELA1464 Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists ACELA1465 Know some features of text organisation including page and screen layouts, alphabetical order, and different types of diagrams, for example timelines ACELA1466

Understand that simple connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with two or more clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction ACELA1467 Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives ACELA1468 Identify visual representations of characters’ actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words ACELA1469 Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose ACELA1470

Understand how to use knowledge of digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words including some compound words ACELA1471 Build morphemic word families using knowledge of prefixes and suffixes ACELA1472 Orally manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words through knowledge of blending and segmenting sounds, phoneme deletion and substitution in combination with use of letters in reading and writing ACELA1474 Use knowledge of letter patterns and morphemes to read and write high-frequency words and words whose spelling is not predictable from their sounds ACELA1823 Use most letter-sound matches including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, letter clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllable ACELA1824 Understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations ACELA1825

Discuss how depictions of characters in print, sound and images reflect the contexts in which they were created ACELT1587

Compare opinions about characters, events and settings in and between texts ACELT1589 Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences ACELT1590

Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways ACELT1591 Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic, sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songs ACELT1592

Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts ACELT1593 Innovate on familiar texts by experimenting with character, setting or plot ACELT1833

Discuss different texts on a similar topic, identifying similarities and differences between the texts ACELY1665

Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others' ideas in discussions ACELY1666 Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics ACELY1667 Use interaction skills including initiating topics, making positive statements and voicing disagreement in an appropriate manner, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately ACELY1789

Identify the audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts ACELY1668 Read less predictable texts with phrasing and fluency by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge using text processing strategies, for example monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correcting ACELY1669 Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures ACELY1670

Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose ACELY1671 Re-read and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure ACELY1672 Write legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper case and lower case letters ACELY1673 Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs ACELY1674