AC9E2LY05 Year 2 English

This Content Descriptor from Year 2 English provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning

Elaborations

• 1 listening for specific information and providing key facts or points from an informative or persuasive text
• 2 listening and responding to detailed instructions
• 3 integrating information from print, images and prior knowledge to make supportable inferences
• 4 identifying the main idea of a text
• 5 predicting vocabulary that is likely to be in a text, based on the topic and the purpose of the text; for example, predicting that “station” and “arrive” would be in a text recounting a train journey
• 6 using prior knowledge to make and confirm predictions when reading a text
• 7 using graphic organisers to represent the connections between characters, order of events or sequence of information

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