Reading Comprehension
Word Reading:
By the end of Year 2, children are expected to:
• Decode automatically and fluently.
• Blend sounds in words that contain the graphemes we have learnt.
• Recognise and read alternative sounds for graphemes.
• Read accurately words of two or more syllables that contain the same GPCs.
• Read words with common suffixes.
• Read common exception words.
• Read and comment on unusual correspondence between grapheme and phoneme.
• Read most words quickly and accurately when I have read them before without sounding out and blending.
• Read most suitable books accurately, showing fluency and confidence.
Develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by:
• Talking about and giving an opinion on a range of texts.
• Discussing the sequence of events in books and how they relate to each other.
• Using prior knowledge, including context and vocabulary, to understand texts.
• Retell stories, including fairy stories and traditional tales.
• Reading for meaning and checking that the text makes sense.
- Going back and re-read when it does not makes sense.
• Finding recurring language in stories and poems.
• Talking about my favourite words and phrases in stories and poems.
• Reciting some poems by heart, with appropriate intonation.
• Answering and asking questions.
• Making predictions based on what I have read.
• Drawing (simple) inferences from illustrations, events, characters’ actions and speech.
Writing: Transcription
By the end of Year 2, children are expected to be able to:
Spelling:
• Segment spoken words into phonemes and record these as graphemes.
• Spell words with alternatives spellings, including a few common homophones.
• Spell longer words using suffixes such as ‘ment’, ‘ness’, ‘ful’, ‘less’, ‘ly’.
• Use my knowledge of alternative phonemes to narrow down possibilities for accurate spelling.
• Identify phonemes in unfamiliar words and use syllables to divide words.
Handwriting
• Form lower-case letters of the correct size relative to one another.
• Begin to use some of the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join letters.
• Show that I know which letters are best left unjoined.
• Use capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower case letters.
• Use spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters.
Composition:
• Write narratives about personal experiences and those of others, both real and fictional.
• Write for different purposes, including real events.
• Plan and discuss the content of writing and record my ideas.
• Orally rehearse structured sentences or sequences of sentences.
• I can evaluate my own writing independently, with friends and with an adult.
• Proof-read to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation.
Sentence structure:
• Use subordination and co-ordination.
• Use expanded noun phrases.
• Say how the grammatical patterns in a sentence indicate its function.
Text structure:
• Consistently use the present tense and past tense correctly.
• Use the progressive forms of verbs in the present and past tense.
Punctuation:
• Use capital letters for names of people, places, day of the week and the personal pronoun ‘I’.
• Correctly use question marks and exclamation marks,
• Use commas to separate items in a list.
• Use apostrophes to show where letters are missing and to mark singular possession in nouns.
Year 2 Mathematician end of year expectations:
Number & Place Value
• Count in steps of 2, 3 and 5 from 0, and in tens from any number, forward and backward.
• Read and write numbers to at least 100 in numerals and in words.
• I can compare and order numbers from 0 up to 100; using < > = signs.
• I recognise the place value of each digit in a 2-digit number.
• Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations, including the number line.
• Use place value and number facts to solve problems.
Addition and Subtraction
• Recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100.
• Add and subtract mentally, including:
o A 2-digit number and ones
o A 2-digit number and tens
o Two 2-digit numbers
o Adding three 1-digit numbers
• Add and subtract numbers using concrete objects and pictorial representations, including:
o A 2-digit number and ones
o A 2-digit number and tens
o Two 2-digit numbers
o Three 1-digit numbers
• Recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and missing number problems.
• Solve problems with addition and subtraction using concrete objects and pictorial representations, including those involving numbers, quantities and measures.
• Solve problems with addition and subtraction applying my increasing knowledge of mental and written methods.
Number: Multiplication & Division
• Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10x tables, including recognising odd and even numbers.
• Calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division within the multiplication tables and write them using the multiplication, division and equals signs.
• Solve problems involving multiplication and division, using materials, arrays, repeated addition, mental methods, and multiplication and division facts, including problems in context.
• Show that addition of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and subtraction of one number from another cannot.
• Show that multiplication of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and division of one number by another cannot.
Fractions:
• Recognise, find, name and write fractions 1/3, 1/4, 2/4 and 3/4 of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity.
• Write simple fractions.
• Recognise the equivalence of 2/4 and 1/2.
Measurement:
• Compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results using > < and =.
• Choose and use standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction in m and cm using rulers.
• Choose and use standard units to estimate and measure mass in kg and g using scales.
• Choose and use standard units to estimate and measure temperature in ºC using thermometers.
• Choose and use standard units to estimate and measure capacity in l and ml using measuring vessels.
• Recognise and use symbols for £ and p and combine amounts to make a particular value.
• Find different combinations of coins that equal the same amount of money.
• Tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter to/past and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times.
• Compare and sequence intervals of time.
• Know the number of minutes in an hour.
• Know the number of hours in a day.
• Solve simple problems in a practical context involving addition and subtraction of money of the same units, including giving change.
Geometry: Properties of Shapes
• Compare and sort common 2D shapes and everyday objects.
• Compare and sort common 3D shapes and everyday objects.
• Identify and describe the properties of 2D shapes, including the number of sides and line of symmetry in a vertical line.
• Identify and describe the properties of 3D shapes including the number of edges, vertices and faces.
• Identify 2D shapes on the surface of 3D shapes.
Geometry: Position & Direction
• Order and arrange combinations of mathematical objects in patterns and sequences.
• Use mathematical vocabulary to describe position, direction and movement (including movement in a straight line and distinguishing between rotation as a turn and in terms of right angles for quarter, half and three-quarter turns (clockwise and anti-clockwise).
Statistics:
• Interpret and construct simple pictograms.
• Interpret and construct tally charts.
• Interpret and construct block diagrams.
• Interpret and construct simple tables.
• Ask and answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity.
• Ask and answer questions about totalling and comparing categorical data.
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