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Year 2 English – England

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What Year 2 English covers

Children in Year 2 are 6 to 7 years old. The national curriculum for Year 2 English covers:

  • Reading: reading aloud with fluency, and talking about stories, poems and information books.
  • Spelling: suffixes such as -ment, -ness and -ful, and contractions such as "can't".
  • Punctuation: commas in lists, and apostrophes for missing letters and for owning something.
  • Grammar: noun phrases, the past and present tense, and joining words such as "when", "because" and "or".

FutureSchool covers these topics with video lessons, worksheets and tests. To see which Year 2 topics your child already knows, start your FutureSchool plan.

Year 2 English

# TOPIC TITLE
1 It’s time to learn your A B C! It’s time!
Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a short text about asking and telling the time on the hour and half hour.
2 It’s time to learn how to tell the time! No school! It’s Sunday!
Objective: Students will increase their vocabulary and develop their reading skills by reading a short text about daily routines.
3 It’s time to learn how to tell the time! Where are my clothes?
Objective: Students will increase their vocabulary and develop their reading skills by reading a short text about items of clothing. They will learn about the prepositions – ‘on’, ‘under’, ‘in’.
4 School and Play I have lots of subjects! Full lesson available
Objective: Students will practise reading, and saying words and simple sentences to describe school subjects and the days of the week.
5 School and Play On the Weekend
Objective: Students will practise reading and recognising simple sentences about weekend activities.
6 It’s Christmas time! It’s time for Maths!
Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a short text in which quarter past, quarter to, 5 past, 5 to, 10 past and 10 to the hour are used.
7 It’s Christmas time! Festivals are fun!
Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a short text about Christmas and Chinese New Year.
8 I walk in the summer. The Seasons
Objective: Students will develop their reading skills and practise new words to describe the seasons.
9 I walk in the summer. How do you go to school?
Objective: Students will develop their reading skills and practise new words that describe modes of transport. They will also ask and answer questions about transport to different places.
10 What’s the weather like today? It’s a sunny day!
Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story about the weather.
11 What are you doing now? Shhhh! Dad is sleeping!
Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story in which the present continuous tense is used.
12 What are you doing now? We are having a picnic!
Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story in which the present continuous tense is used to ask and answer questions.
13 They’re usually in the lounge room. Hide and Seek
Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story about finding people.
14 They’re usually in the lounge room. An Unusual Day
Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story in which the simple present and the continuous present tenses are used. They will also learn the little words that help to sequence a story.
15 Left! Right! Let’s go! Where’s the shop?
Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story in which simple directions are given using the imperative.
16 Left! Right! Let’s go! Ladies and Gentlemen!
Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story in which the present continuous tense is used to talk about a concert.
17 Up, down and around we go! Roller-coaster Ride
Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story in which routes are described using the present continuous tense.
18 Up, down and around we go! Catch that car!
Objective: Students will develop their comprehension skills by reading a story which focuses on street directions and places.
19 Sentences The Sentence
Objective: To identify and use complete sentences.
20 Spelling Spelling
Objective: To use the ‘Look, Say, Write’ method for learning spelling. Plus 300 spelling words.
21 Capitalisation Capital Letters 1
Objective: To use capital letters correctly: to begin sentences, for proper nouns.
22 Vowels and Consonants Vowels and Consonants
Objective: To identify and use vowels and consonants.
23 Common Nouns Common Nouns
Objective: To show a common noun names an object or thing.
24 Punctuation Sentence Endings
Objective: To use full-stops, question marks, exclamation marks and capital letters correctly.
25 Verbs Simple Verbs
Objective: To identify and use verbs. To understand a verb can be: an action or doing word, a state of being or ownership.

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