Year 2 English

The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the strands focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding …

Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Achievement Standard English Year 2

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 2, students understand how similar texts share characteristics by identifying text structures and language features used to describe characters and events, or to communicate factual …

Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELA1461

exploring culturally specific greetings and expressions of politeness

Elaboration (2) | ACELA1461 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELA1462

exploring how language is used to construct characters and settings in narratives, including choice of nouns such as ‘girl’, ‘princess’ or ‘orphan’, and choice of adjectives such as ‘gentle’, ‘timid’ or ‘frightened’

Elaboration (2) | ACELA1462 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELA1468

exploring names of people and places and how to write them using capital letters

Elaboration (2) | ACELA1468 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELA1471

drawing on knowledge of letter-sound relationships, for example breaking a word into syllables, then recording the sounds heard and thinking about the letter patterns that represent the sounds

Elaboration (2) | ACELA1471 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1587

discussing moral and teaching stories from varied cultures, identifying and comparing their central messages

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1587 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1590

drawing, writing and using digital technologies to capture and communicate favourite characters and events

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1590 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1591

identifying features of imaginary or fantasy texts, for example magic powers, shifts in time

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1591 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1593

orally, in writing or using digital media, constructing a sequel to a known story

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1593 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELY1666

listening to, remembering and responding to detailed instructions

Elaboration (2) | ACELY1666 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELY1789

participating in pair, group and class speaking and listening situations, including informal conversations, class discussions and presentations

Elaboration (2) | ACELY1789 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELY1667

listening and responding to presentations, including those using multimedia, on familiar and learned topics, recording key information, and connecting new and existing knowledge about a topic

Elaboration (2) | ACELY1667 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELY1669

using knowledge of sound–letter relationships and high frequency sight words when decoding text

Elaboration (2) | ACELY1669 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELY1670

building on and using prior knowledge and vocabulary

Elaboration (2) | ACELY1670 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELY1671

using appropriate simple and compound sentence to express and combine ideas

Elaboration (2) | ACELY1671 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELY1672

checking for inclusion of relevant punctuation including capital letters to signal names, as well as sentence beginnings, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks

Elaboration (2) | ACELY1672 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELY1672

reading their work and adding, deleting or changing words, prepositional phrases or sentences to improve meaning, for example replacing an everyday noun with a technical one in an informative text

Elaboration | ACELY1672 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACELT1591

describing features of text settings including time, colours used to portray year, season, and place (country or city) and how this impacts on the characters

Elaboration | ACELT1591 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum