Year 2 English

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Reading foundations Foundations

Reading strategies Reading

Vocabulary Vocab

Grammar and mechanics Grammar

Reading foundations

Consonants and vowels

A.1
Sort consonants and vowels
A.2
Find the vowels in a word

Syllables

Rhyming

Blending and segmenting

Consonant sounds and letters

Consonant blends and digraphs

Short a

Short e

Short i

Short o

Short u

Short vowels

Short and long vowels

Silent e

Vowel digraphs

Diphthongs: oi, oy, ou, ow

Two-syllable words

Sight words

Reading strategies

Reality vs fiction

S.1
Which could happen in real life?

Main idea

T.1
What is the picture about?

Inference and analysis

U.1
Which feeling matches the picture?
U.2
What will happen next?
U.3
What am I?
U.4
Use actions and dialogue to understand characters

Vocabulary

Nouns and adjectives

Categories

Synonyms and antonyms

X.1
Choose the synonyms
X.2
Choose the antonyms

Multiple-meaning words

Y.1
Multiple-meaning words with pictures

Shades of meaning

Prefixes and suffixes

Context clues

BB.1
Use context to identify the meaning of a word

Reference skills

CC.1
Put the letters in ABC order
CC.2
Put the words in ABC order

Grammar and mechanics

Sentences

DD.1
Identify statements
DD.2
Identify questions
DD.3
Identify exclamations
DD.4
Identify commands
DD.5
Choose the right end mark
DD.6
Statement, question, command or exclamation?
DD.7
Who, what, when, where or why?
DD.8
Is it the naming or action part of the sentence?
DD.9
Find the complete sentences
DD.10
Complete the sentence
DD.11
Unscramble the words to make a complete sentence

Nouns

EE.1
Is the noun a person, animal, place or thing?
EE.2
Select the nouns
EE.3
Identify nouns in a sentence
EE.4
Sort common and proper nouns
EE.5
Identify proper nouns
EE.6
Regular plurals: select the word that matches the picture
EE.7
Form regular plurals with -s and -es
EE.8
Use singular and plural nouns
EE.9
Irregular plurals: select the word that matches the picture
EE.10
Select the possessive noun that matches the picture
EE.11
Form the singular possessive

Pronouns

Verbs

GG.1
Complete the sentence with an action verb to match the picture
GG.2
Identify action verbs
GG.3
Use action verbs

Subject-verb agreement

Verb tense

II.1
Select the sentence that tells about the present
II.2
Select the sentence that tells about the past
II.3
Select the sentence that tells about the future
II.4
Place sentences on a timeline
II.5
Form and use the regular past tense
II.6
Identify the irregular past tense
II.7
Place sentences with irregular verbs on a timeline
II.8
Complete the verb with the ending that you hear
II.9
Match the -ed and -ing sentences to the pictures
II.10
To be: use the correct present tense form
II.11
To be: use the correct past tense form
II.12
To be: use the correct form
II.13
To have: use the correct form

Articles

JJ.1
Use the correct article: a or an
JJ.2
Identify articles

Adjectives

Prepositions

Linking words

Contractions

NN.1
Match the contractions
NN.2
Form pronoun-verb contractions
NN.3
Form contractions with 'not'
NN.4
Complete the sentence with the correct contraction

Capitalisation

OO.1
Capitalise the names of people and pets
OO.2
Capitalise days and months
OO.3
Capitalise sentences and the pronoun 'I'