AC9E2LY06
Official content description
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 common 2-syllable words
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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 Literacy progression either side of AC9E2LY06
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Taught before · Year 1
- AC9E1LY01discuss different texts and identify some features that indicate their purposes
- AC9E1LY02use interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours and responding to the contributions of others, and contributing ideas and questions
- AC9E1LY03describe some similarities and differences between imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
Builds towards · Year 3
- AC9E3LY01recognise how texts can be created for similar purposes but different audiences
- AC9E3LY02use interaction skills to contribute to conversations and discussions to share information and ideas
- AC9E3LY03identify the audience and purpose of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts through their use of language features and/or images
Other Year 2 Literacy codes
- 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
- 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
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