Spoken Language: Pupils will be taught to: a) listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers b) ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge c) use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary d) articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions e) give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings f) maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments g) use spoken language to develop understanding h) speak audibly and fluently i) participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates j) gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s) k) consider and evaluate different viewpoints l) select and use appropriate registers for effective communication.
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Reading Word Reading - Recognition: Pupils will be taught to: a) continue to apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words until automatic decoding has become embedded and reading is fluent b) read accurately by blending the sounds in words that contain the graphemes taught so far, especially recognising alternative sounds for graphemes c) read accurately words of two or more syllables that contain the same graphemes as above d) read words containing common suffixes e) read further common exception words, noting unusual correspondences between spelling and sound and where these occur in the word f) read most words quickly and accurately, without overt sounding and blending, when they have been frequently encountered g) read aloud books closely matched to their improving phonic knowledge, sounding out unfamiliar words accurately, automatically and without undue hesitation h) re-read these books to build up their fluency and confidence in word reading
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Reading Comprehension
Pupils will be taught to:
Develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by:
Listening to, discussing and expressing views about a wide range of contemporary and classic poetry, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently,
discussing the sequence of events in books and how items of information are related.
Becoming increasingly familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales.
Being introduced to non-fiction books that are structured in different ways.
Recognising simple recurring literary language in stories and poetry.
Discussing and clarifying the meanings of words, linking new meanings to known vocabulary.
Discussing their favourite words and phrases.
Continuing to build up a repertoire of poems learnt by heart, appreciating these and reciting some, with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear.
Understand both the books that they can already read accurately and fluently and those that they listen to by:
Drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher
Checking that the text makes sense to them as they read and correcting inaccurate reading
Making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done
Answering and asking questions
Predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far
Participate in discussion about books, poems and other works that are read to them and those that they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say
Explain and discuss their understanding of books, poems and other material, both those that they listen to and those that they read for themselves
Writing Transcription
Pupils will be taught to spell by:
a) segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly
b) learning new ways of spelling phonemes for which one or more spellings are already known, and learn some words with each spelling, including a few common homophones
c) learning to spell common exception words
d) learning to spell more words with contracted forms
e) learning the possessive apostrophe (singular) [for example, the girl’s book]
f) distinguishing between homophones and near-homophones
Add suffixes to spell longer words, including –ment, –ness, –ful, –less, –ly
Apply spelling rules and guidance, as listed * Spelling List
Write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words using the GPCs, common exception words and punctuation taught so far
Writing Composition
Pupils will be taught to:
Develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by:
a) writing narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and fictional)
b) writing about real events
c) writing poetry
d) writing for different purposes
Consider what they are going to write before beginning by:
e) planning or saying out loud what they are going to write about
f) writing down ideas and/or key words, including new vocabulary
g) encapsulating what they want to say, sentence by sentence
Make simple additions, revisions and corrections to their own writing by:
h) evaluating their writing with the teacher and other pupils
i) re-reading to check that for sense and that verbs to indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the continuous form
j) proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]
Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear
Writing Composition: Writing, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
Pupils will be taught to:
Develop their understanding of the concepts
a) learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly, including full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks, commas for lists and apostrophes for contracted forms and the possessive (singular)
Learn how to use:
b) sentences with different forms: statement, question, exclamation, command
c) expanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly]
d) the present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive form
e) subordination (using when, if, that, or because) and co-ordination (using or, and, or but)
f) the grammar for year 2
g) some features of written Standard English
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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