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Year 2 english lesson plans (national curriculum)

Every Year 2 english statement from the national curriculum programme of study, grouped by strand. Choose "Plan this" and Heapso plans a lesson that covers it.

Spoken language

  • ENG-NC-EN-Y16-001

    listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers

    Taught across Years 1 to 6

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y16-002

    ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge

    Taught across Years 1 to 6

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y16-003

    use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary

    Taught across Years 1 to 6

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y16-004

    articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions

    Taught across Years 1 to 6

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y16-005

    give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings

    Taught across Years 1 to 6

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y16-006

    maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments

    Taught across Years 1 to 6

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y16-007

    use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas

    Taught across Years 1 to 6

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y16-008

    speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English

    Taught across Years 1 to 6

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y16-009

    participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play/improvisations and debates

    Taught across Years 1 to 6

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y16-010

    gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s)

    Taught across Years 1 to 6

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y16-011

    consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others

    Taught across Years 1 to 6

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y16-012

    select and use appropriate registers for effective communication

    Taught across Years 1 to 6

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Reading - word reading

  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-001

    continue to apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words until automatic decoding has become embedded and reading is fluent

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-002

    read accurately by blending the sounds in words that contain the graphemes taught so far, especially recognising alternative sounds for graphemes

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-003

    read accurately words of two or more syllables that contain the same graphemes as above

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-004

    read words containing common suffixes

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-005

    read further common exception words, noting unusual correspondences between spelling and sound and where these occur in the word

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-006

    read most words quickly and accurately, without overt sounding and blending, when they have been frequently encountered

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-007

    read aloud books closely matched to their improving phonic knowledge, sounding out unfamiliar words accurately, automatically and without undue hesitation

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-008

    reread these books to build up their fluency and confidence in word reading

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Reading - comprehension

  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-009

    develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by:

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-009.1

    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

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-009.2

    discussing the sequence of events in books and how items of information are related

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-009.3

    becoming increasingly familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-009.4

    being introduced to non-fiction books that are structured in different ways

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-009.5

    recognising simple recurring literary language in stories and poetry

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-009.6

    discussing and clarifying the meanings of words, linking new meanings to known vocabulary

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-009.7

    discussing their favourite words and phrases

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-009.8

    continuing to build up a repertoire of poems learnt by heart, appreciating these and reciting some, with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-010

    understand both the books that they can already read accurately and fluently and those that they listen to by:

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-010.1

    drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-010.2

    checking that the text makes sense to them as they read, and correcting inaccurate reading

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-010.3

    making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-010.4

    answering and asking questions

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-010.5

    predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-011

    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

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-012

    explain and discuss their understanding of books, poems and other material, both those that they listen to and those that they read for themselves

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Writing - transcription: Spelling - see English appendix 1

  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-013

    spell by:

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-013.1

    segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-013.2

    learning new ways of spelling phonemes for which 1 or more spellings are already known, and learn some words with each spelling, including a few common homophones

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-013.3

    learning to spell common exception words

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-013.4

    learning to spell more words with contracted forms

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-013.5

    learning the possessive apostrophe (singular) [for example, the girl’s book]

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-013.6

    distinguishing between homophones and near-homophones

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-014

    add suffixes to spell longer words including –ment, –ness, –ful, –less, –ly

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-015

    apply spelling rules and guidance, as listed in English appendix 1

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-016

    write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words using the GPCs, common exception words and punctuation taught so far

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Writing - transcription: Handwriting

  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-017

    form lower-case letters of the correct size relative to one another

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-018

    start using some of the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join letters and understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left unjoined

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-019

    write capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower-case letters

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-020

    use spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters

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Writing - composition

  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-021

    develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by:

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-021.1

    writing narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and fictional)

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-021.2

    writing about real events

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-021.3

    writing poetry

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-021.4

    writing for different purposes

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-022

    consider what they are going to write before beginning by:

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-022.1

    planning or saying out loud what they are going to write about

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-022.2

    writing down ideas and/or key words, including new vocabulary

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-022.3

    encapsulating what they want to say, sentence by sentence

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-023

    make simple additions, revisions and corrections to their own writing by:

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-023.1

    evaluating their writing with the teacher and other pupils

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-023.2

    rereading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the continuous form

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-023.3

    proofreading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation (for example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly)

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-024

    read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear

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Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-025

    develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by:

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-025.1

    learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly - see English appendix 2, including full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks, commas for lists and apostrophes for contracted forms and the possessive (singular)

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-025.2

    learn how to use:

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-025.3

    sentences with different forms: statement, question, exclamation, command

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-025.4

    expanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly]

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-025.5

    the present and past tenses correctly and consistently, including the progressive form

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-025.6

    subordination (using when, if, that, or because) and co-ordination (using or, and, or but)

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-025.7

    the grammar for year 2 in English appendix 2

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-025.8

    some features of written Standard English

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  • ENG-NC-EN-Y2-026

    use and understand the grammatical terminology in English appendix 2 in discussing their writing

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