English
Year 2 · Curriculum for Wales
Year 2 English expects reading with accuracy and expression, and comprehension that goes beyond recall: inferring how a character feels, explaining why something happened, and finding evidence in the text.
Writing becomes properly structured: children plan before writing, organise ideas into a beginning, middle and end, and use a wider range of punctuation including question marks, exclamation marks and commas in lists. Adjectives, conjunctions and varied sentence openers are taught explicitly.
Spelling moves onto common patterns, contractions and homophones, and handwriting develops toward joined letters.
Curriculum Breakdown
Important Topics
- Reading Accuracy & FluencyReading a range of texts accurately, at pace and with expression.
- Comprehension & InferenceExplaining what a character feels or why an event happened, using the text.
- Writing: StructurePlanning and writing with a clear beginning, middle and end.
- Grammar & PunctuationAdjectives, conjunctions, question and exclamation marks, and commas in lists.
- SpellingCommon spelling patterns, contractions and homophones.
- Oracy & PresentingPresenting ideas to the class and building on what others say.
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