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
ACELA1462
Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things
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ACELA1462 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1461
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
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ACELA1461 | Content Descriptions | 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 information. They …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1463
Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purpose
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ACELA1463 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1464
Understand how texts are made cohesive through language features, including word associations, synonyms, and antonyms
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ACELA1464 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELT1591
Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used to present these features in different ways
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ACELT1591 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELA1460
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
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ACELA1460 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1670
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
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ACELY1670 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
ACELY1671
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
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ACELY1671 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELY1666
using spoken language for problem solving, and exploring ideas and concepts
Elaboration | ACELY1666 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELA1462
exploring how language is used to express feelings including learning vocabulary to express a gradation of feeling, for example ‘happy’, ‘joyful’, ‘pleased’, ‘contented’
Elaboration | ACELA1462 | 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 (3) ACELT1591
investigating Aboriginal stories, found from online sources, that explain physical features of the landscape and identify and describe the common features of language used
Elaboration (3) | ACELT1591 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACELA1462
exploring in stories, everyday and media texts moral and social dilemmas; such as right and wrong, fairness/unfairness, inclusion and exclusion; learning to use language to describe actions and consider consequences
Elaboration (1) | ACELA1462 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACELT1590
describing features of texts from different cultures including recurring language patterns, style of illustrations, elements of humour or drama, and identifying the features which give rise to their personal preferences
Elaboration | ACELT1590 | Content Descriptions | Year 2 | English | F-10 curriculum