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Year 2 Literacy and Maths Overview

This overview provides a summary of the literacy and maths curriculum for Year 2 students, including reading, writing, spelling, punctuation, grammar, phonics, handwriting, and maths topics like number and place value, calculations, problem-solving, and reasoning.

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Year 2 Literacy and Maths Overview

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  1. Alban City School Year 2

  2. Year 2 Literacy

  3. Overview • Reading • Writing • Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar • Phonics • Handwriting • Speaking and Listening

  4. Reading Comprehension • Big focus in year 2 • Decoding and showing an understanding of • what they read • Understanding of vocabulary • Question types: prediction, comprehension (answer directly in the text/pictures), inference (using clues and pictures from text to answer a question i.e. maybe if……., I think….) • Reading records - boxes • Reading comprehensions and resources will be used at school regularly to assess

  5. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) • Demarcate sentences with capital letters, full stops, exclamation marks and question marks. • Use commas in a list. • Use apostrophes correctly. • Use noun phrases for description. • Use subordination; When, if, that, because • Use co-ordination; Or, but, and • Use nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs • Use the correct tense (past and present)

  6. Phonics and Spelling • Phonics continued daily to recap and improve confidence on phases taught in year 1 • Common Exception Words focused on • High Frequency words • Spelling tests weekly – will be handed out and tested on Fridays

  7. Handwriting • Children will continue with weekly handwriting sessions but will begin to apply joins to all of their writing in class. • Children begin all sessions with fine or gross motor warm ups.

  8. Year 2 Maths

  9. Overview • Number and Place Value • Calculations • Problem Solving and reasoning • Measures • Geometry and shapes • Fractions • Data

  10. Multiplication Key focus in Year 2 will be to understand the process of multiplication and to know by heart 2,3,5, and 10 times tables.

  11. Fluency • The children will use the 100 square to help them gain fluency with numbers to 100 and beyond. • Seeing patterns • Making links between numbers, shape, measure, fractions and so on.

  12. Addition and subtraction • The children need to recognise and understand place value , Hundreds, Tens and Ones. • Using mental calculations to add and subtract. • Confidently applying number bonds to 20 in + and - • Add and subtract a 1 digit number to and from a 2 digit number, two 2 digit numbers and three single digit numbers.

  13. Year 2 Overview

  14. Year 2 Overview • Faith and Belief • Physical and Emotional Health • French • Place and Time • Science and Technology • Citizenship and Ethics • Art and Creativity

  15. Quests and Journeys Stories about quests and journeys Continents and oceans Christopher Columbus, Grace Darling David Hockney- Journey pictures Designing and making a vehicle Plants

  16. Rainforests Poetry, riddles, non-fiction Living things and their habitats Food chains and animals Environmentalists, conservationists (Borneo chimpanzee centre) Henri Rousseau; Jungle images Sliders and leavers Algorithms and debugging

  17. The World? Materials and global perspective. Explore contrasting destinations Explorers and expeditions- Robert Scott Food technology Aboriginal and African Art.

  18. PE Kit – Wednesdays and Fridays Indoor kit Outdoor kit Hair must be tied back and earrings covered with tape • T-shirt • Shorts • Plimsolls • T-shirt • Tracksuit bottoms • Trainers • Spare socks

  19. French – Thursday AM Music – Wednesday AM Break time – 10:20 – 10:50 Lunchtimes – 12:15 – 1:30 Please ensure children bring coats in as it starts to get colder. Science – Plants, Living things and their habitats, Animals (including humans), Materials

  20. How can you know how your child is getting on? • Soft Start • Parents Evenings • Reports • Targets in Literacy books

  21. Homework • New reading diaries • A literacy and maths task will be set fortnightly. • Books to be returned ready for new homework to be set. • Due in Wednesdays and given out on Thursdays

  22. At the end of Year 2, children will take SATs in: • Reading. • English grammar, punctuation and spelling. • Maths. • Variety of questioning types • Governments website • Not “tests” – how can we help you learn?

  23. How to help at home • Reading regularly • Mental arithmetic • Spellings • Checking blog for tips • Soft start activities • https://albancityschool.org.uk/class-pages/year-2-crimson-and-scarlet/

  24. Thank you Any Questions?

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