About / Supporting the curriculum / Year 2 literacy skills
Strand |
Objective |
|---|---|
| 1 Speaking | Tell imagined stories using the conventions of familiar story language |
| 1 Speaking | Explain ideas using imaginative and adventurous vocabulary and non verbal gestures to support communication |
| 2 Listening and responding | Listen to others in class ask relevant questions and follow instructions |
| 3 Group discussion and interaction | Work effectively in groups by ensuring that each group member takes a turn challenging, supporting and moving on |
| 4 Drama | Adopt appropriate roles in small or large groups and consider alternative courses of action |
| 4 Drama | Consider how mood and atmosphere are created in live or recorded performance |
| 7 Understanding and interpreting texts | Give some reasons why things happen or characters change |
| 9 Creating and shaping texts | Sustain form in narrative, including use of person and time |
| 9 Creating and shaping texts | Make adventurous word and language choices appropriate to the style and purpose of the text |
| 9 Creating and shaping texts | Select from different presentational features to suit particular writing purposes on paper or on screen |
| 10 Text structure and organisation | Use planning to establish clear sections for writing |
| 11 Sentence structure and punctuation | Compose sentences using tense consistently (present and past) |
Links to the Department for Education and skills' Primary Framework for Literacy website: