Year 2 English lesson resources
Every Year 2 English content descriptor in the Australian Curriculum v9. Pick a descriptor to see aligned, classroom-ready resources, or generate a full lesson set from any of them in minutes.
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- AC9E2LA01Investigate how interpersonal language choices vary depending on the context, including the different roles taken on in interactions
- AC9E2LA02Explore how language can be used for appreciating texts and providing reasons for preferences
- AC9E2LA03Identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes
- AC9E2LA04Understand how texts are made cohesive by using personal and possessive pronouns and by omitting words that can be inferred
- AC9E2LA05Navigate print and screen texts using chapters, tables of contents, indexes, side-bar menus, drop-down menus or links
- AC9E2LA06Understand that connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with 2 or more independent clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction
- AC9E2LA07Understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups
- AC9E2LA08Understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text
- AC9E2LA09Experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic
- AC9E2LA10Recognise that capital letters are used in titles and commas are used to separate items in lists
Literature
- AC9E2LE01Discuss how characters and settings are connected in literature created by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
- AC9E2LE02Identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences
- AC9E2LE03Discuss the characters and settings of a range of texts and identify how language is used to present these features in different ways
- AC9E2LE04Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic sound and word patterns in poems, chants, rhymes or songs
- AC9E2LE05Create and edit literary texts by adapting structures and language features of familiar literary texts through drawing, writing, performance and digital tools
Literacy
- AC9E2LY01Identify how similar topics and information are presented in different types of texts
- AC9E2LY02Use interaction skills when engaging with topics, actively listening to others, receiving instructions and extending own ideas, speaking appropriately, expressing and responding to opinions, making statements, and giving instructions
- AC9E2LY03Identify the purpose and audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
- AC9E2LY04Read texts with phrasing and fluency, using phonic and word knowledge, and monitoring meaning by re-reading and self-correcting
- AC9E2LY05Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning
- AC9E2LY06Create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words
- AC9E2LY07Create, rehearse and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations for familiar audiences and purposes, using text structure appropriate to purpose and topic-specific vocabulary, and varying tone, volume and pace
- AC9E2LY08Write words legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper-case and lower-case letters
- AC9E2LY09Manipulate more complex sounds in spoken words and use knowledge of blending, segmenting, phoneme deletion and phoneme substitution to read and write words
- AC9E2LY10Use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter/s) matches, including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, consonant clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllables, including compound words
- AC9E2LY11Use knowledge of spelling patterns and morphemes to read and write words whose spelling is not completely predictable from their sounds, including high-frequency words
- AC9E2LY12Build morphemic word families using knowledge of prefixes and suffixes
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