Grade 2 English Home Language Term 4 Activity Book 10-12

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Grade 2 English Home Language Term 4 Activity Book 10-12

• Listens to a complex sequence of instructions and responds appropriately
• Participates in discussions, suggesting topics for discussion and asking questions for information and reporting back on the group’s work
• Tells jokes and riddles using appropriate volume and intonation
• Listens and responds to a speaker the child cannot see
• Listens for the detail in stories and answers higher-order questions.
• Answers open-ended questions and justifies answer.
• R-controlled Vowel digraphs e.g. -ar; -er; -ir; -or; -ur
• Vowel digraphs and diphthongs e.g. -ay; -ai; -ea; -ee; -ie; -oa; -oe; -oo; -ui; -ue
• Recognises and uses suffixes e.g. -ly, -ies
• Synonyms & Antonyms
• Revises ‘silent -e’
• Builds words using the phonic sounds taught during the year.
• Builds sentences using phonics vocabulary
• Writes two short sentences dictated by the teacher
• Reads poems and songs as a whole class with teacher (Shared Reading) and discusses the different formats and the poet’s choice of words
• Recognises apostrophes in contractions showing both possession and contractions such as John’s car, don’t
• Experiments with words: writes a simple poem or song
• Writes at least two paragraphs (ten sentences) on personal experiences or events such as a family celebration
• Drafts, writes and publishes own story of at least two paragraphs, using language such as ‘once upon a time’ and ‘in the end’
• Uses informational structures when writing such as writes recipes
• Sequences text by using words like ‘first’, ‘next’ and ‘finally’
• Uses correct punctuation, e.g. full stops, commas, question marks and exclamation marks.
• Uses present, past and future tenses correctly