AC9E2LA08
Official content description
understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text
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What Year 2 English students should achieve
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- They use text structures to organise and link ideas for a purpose.
- They share ideas, topic knowledge and appreciation of texts when they recount, inform or express an opinion, including details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts.
- They write words using consistently legible unjoined letters.
- They create written and/or multimodal texts including stories to inform, express an opinion, adapt an idea or narrate for audiences.
- They use phonic and morphemic knowledge, and grammatical patterns to read unfamiliar words and most high-frequency words.
- They organise and link ideas, and use language features including topic-specific vocabulary and features of voice.
The Language progression either side of AC9E2LA08
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Taught before · Year 1
- AC9E1LA01understand how language, facial expressions and gestures are used to interact with others when asking for and providing information, making offers, exclaiming, requesting and giving commands
- AC9E1LA02explore language to provide reasons for likes, dislikes and preferences
- AC9E1LA03explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
Builds towards · Year 3
- AC9E3LA01understand that cooperation with others depends on shared understanding of social conventions, including turn-taking language, which vary according to the degree of formality
- AC9E3LA02understand how the language of evaluation and emotion, such as modal verbs, can be varied to be more or less forceful
- AC9E3LA03describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose
Other Year 2 Language codes
- 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
- AC9E2LA09experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic
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