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

Structure English

Strands, sub-strands and threads The Australian Curriculum: English Foundation to Year 10 is organised into three interrelated strands that support students' growing understanding and use of Standard Australian English (English). Each strand interacts …

Structure | 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) ACELA1428

learning to ask relevant questions and to express requests and opinions in ways that suit different contexts

Elaboration (2) | ACELA1428 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELA1430

repeating parts of texts, for example characteristic refrains, predicting cumulative storylines, reciting poetic and rhyming phrases

Elaboration (2) | ACELA1430 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELA1433

learning about front and back covers; title and author, layout and navigation of digital/screen texts

Elaboration (2) | ACELA1433 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELA1437

bringing vocabulary from personal experiences, relating this to new experiences and building a vocabulary for thinking and talking about school topics

Elaboration (2) | ACELA1437 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELA1439

identifying syllables in spoken words, for example clapping the rhythm of ‘Mon-day’, ‘Ja-cob’ or ‘Si-en-na’

Elaboration (2) | ACELA1439 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELA1438

breaking words into onset and rime to learn how to spell words that share the same pattern, for example ‘p-at’, ‘b-at’, ‘t-all’ and ‘f-all’

Elaboration (2) | ACELA1438 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELA1819

blending phonemes to form one-syllable spoken words, for example ‘s-u-n’ is orally expressed as ‘sun’ and ‘b-a-g’ is orally expressed as ‘bag’

Elaboration (2) | ACELA1819 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1575

comparing experiences depicted in stories with students’ own

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1575 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1577

returning to preferred texts and commenting on reasons for selection

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1577 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1783

talking about people, events and ideas in texts, enabling students to connect them to their own experiences and to express their own opinions about what is depicted

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1783 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELT1580

using digital technologies to retell events and recreate characters from favourite print and film texts

Elaboration (2) | ACELT1580 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELY1646

listening for specific things, for example the main idea of a short statement, the details of a story, or to answer a given question

Elaboration (2) | ACELY1646 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELY1784

participating in speaking and listening situations, exchanging ideas with peers in pairs and small groups and engaging in class discussions, listening to others and contributing ideas

Elaboration (2) | ACELY1784 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELY1649

attempting to work out unknown words by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge

Elaboration (2) | ACELY1649 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELY1650

providing a simple, correctly-sequenced retelling of narrative texts

Elaboration (2) | ACELY1650 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELY1651

creating short spoken, written and multimodal observations, recounts and descriptions, extending vocabulary and including some content-specific words in spoken and written texts

Elaboration (2) | ACELY1651 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACELY1653

following clear demonstrations of how to construct each letter (for example where to start; which direction to write)

Elaboration (2) | ACELY1653 | Content Descriptions | Foundation Year | English | F-10 curriculum