Year 2 English Content Descriptions - Literacy
Texts in context
Identify how similar topics and information are presented in different types of texts
WA2ELYT1
For example:
- exploring and identifying different features in texts of the same text type which vary in their organisation, such as different types of procedures
- comparing two or more texts on a common topic
Interacting with others
Use 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
WA2ELYI1
Analysing, interpreting and evaluating
Identify the purpose and audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
WA2ELYA1
For example:
- describing the purpose and audience of some child-friendly advertisements
Read texts with phrasing and fluency combining phonic, word and grammatical knowledge, and monitor meaning using text processing strategies
WA2ELYA2
For example:
- blending and segmenting new words using known letter patterns and phonic knowledge
- reading high-frequency words with increasing automaticity to develop fluency
- drawing on topic word knowledge to make meaning in informative texts
- recognising a base word within a larger word to aid decoding
- using knowledge of sentence structure, including punctuation and word order to read with phrasing and fluency
- drawing on personal knowledge and experiences to construct and monitor meaning
Use comprehension strategies, such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning when listening, reading and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning in a range of texts for different purposes
WA2ELYA3
For example:
- making connections to own experiences to understand the motives or feelings of a character
- making predictions about the type of characters who are likely to be in a text, such as a fable or Aboriginal tale
- participating in conversations to share ideas, and ask and answer questions about texts
- sharing the clues from the text when discussing inferences during shared reading
- monitoring understanding by asking questions and/or checking information in another text
Creating texts
Plan, create 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 correct spelling of some common two-syllable words
WA2ELYC1
For example:
- creating a written text, selecting and including elements appropriate to purpose and audience, such as including diagrams in an informative text and detailed descriptions in a narrative
Create, rehearse and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations to inform or tell stories for familiar audiences and purposes, using text structure appropriate to purpose and topic-specific vocabulary, and varying tone, volume and pace
WA2ELYC2
Write words legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined lower‑ and upper-case letters
WA2ELYC3
Use features of digital tools to create or add to texts
WA2ELYC4
For example:
- creating a story using a suitable app