Year 2 Science

The science inquiry skills and science as a human endeavour strands are described across a two-year band. In their planning, schools and teachers refer to the expectations outlined in the achievement standard and also to the content of the science understanding …

Year 2 | Science | F-10 curriculum

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

Year 2 HASS

Our past and present connections to people and places The Year 2 curriculum extends contexts for study beyond the personal to the community and to near and distant places that students are familiar with or aware of, exploring connections between the …

Year 2 | HASS | Humanities and Social Sciences | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration (2) ACMNA122

understanding that if a number is divisible by a composite number then it is also divisible by the prime factors of that number (for example 216 is divisible by 8 because the number represented by the last three digits is divisible by 8, and hence 216 …

Elaboration (2) | ACMNA122 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

Year 2 Mathematics

The proficiency strands understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning are an integral part of mathematics content across the three content strands: number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability. The proficiencies …

Year 2 | Mathematics | F-10 curriculum

Elaboration ACMNA124

understanding that integers are ...-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3,.....

Elaboration | ACMNA124 | Content Descriptions | Year 6 | Mathematics | 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