English · Year 2

Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose VCELA212 Know some features of text organisation including page and screen layouts, alphabetical order, and different types of diagrams VCELA213 Understand how texts are made cohesive by the use of resources, including word associations, synonyms, and antonyms VCELA224 Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists VCELA225

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 VCELA214 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 VCELA215 Understand that nouns represent people, places, things and ideas and include common, proper, concrete or abstract, and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives VCELA216 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 VCELA237

Learn some generalisations for adding suffixes to words VCELA217 Recognise most letter–sound matches including silent letters, trigraphs, vowel digraphs and common long vowels, and understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations VCELA218 Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends, silent letters and syllabification to spell simple words including compound words VCELA226 Use visual memory to write high-frequency words and words where spelling is not predictable from the sounds VCELA227 Manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words through knowledge of blending and segmenting sounds, phoneme deletion and substitution VCELA238

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 VCELA234 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 VCELA235 Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things VCELA236

Identify all Standard Australian English phonemes, including short and long vowels, separate sounds in clusters VCELA239 Analyse how different texts use nouns to represent people, places, things and ideas in particular ways VCELY223 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 VCELY230 Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure VCELY231 Write words and sentences legibly using upper- and lower-case letters that are applied with growing fluency using an appropriate pen/pencil grip and body position VCELY232 Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs VCELY233

Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways VCELT219 Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic, sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes and songs VCELT243

Create events and characters using different media that develop key events and characters from literary texts VCELT228 Build on familiar texts by experimenting with character, setting or plot VCELT229

Discuss how depictions of characters in print, sound and images reflect the contexts in which they were created VCELT240

Identify aspects of different types of literary texts that entertain, and give reasons for personal preferences VCELT241 Compare opinions about characters, events and settings in and between texts VCELT242

Discuss different texts on a similar topic, identifying similarities and differences between the texts VCELY220

Read familiar and some unfamiliar texts with phrasing and fluency by combining phonic, semantic, contextual and grammatical knowledge using text processing strategies, including monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correcting VCELY221 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 VCELY222

Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions, and extend students’ own and others' ideas in discussions through initiating topics, making positive statements, and voicing disagreement in an appropriate manner VCELY244 Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately, and using supportive props VCELY245