Year 2 Curriculum Evening

Similarities and Differences to Year 1 SimilaritiesDifferences Home readers – 3 times week Sounds of the week – Friday Library books – weekly PE twice a week Book bags in daily Celebration Assembly – Friday Timetabling Cross-curricular learning Monitors – assembly, milk, book, buddies, play leaders Split classes for Literacy and Maths Self assessment – learning steps, maths and literacy targets Greater level of independence Maths homework – Friday Morning activities Handwriting license

Reading  Colour bands  Expectations and levels  Comprehension – reading skills  How we teach reading at school  Phonics  Guided reading  Individual reading  Interventions  Reading across the curriculum  Reading as part of all learning  Reading at home

Reading- 2a  I can read words with prefixes and suffixes and know what they mean in a text.  I can read out loud using punctuation to help the listener understand.  I can read fluently, using different voices and tones to give expression.  I can retell a story and use details to make it clear.  I can find information in a text and discuss it by referring to the text.  I can talk about the theme of a story.  I can discuss the reasons for events in a story.  I can understand how certain words and phrases make texts funny, spooky or create moods.  I can compare the layout, characters, settings and themes of different books.  I can predict what a book might be about by skim reading, the title, contents and illustrations.  I can find and talk about the vocabulary and writer’s knowledge the author has used.  I can make reading choices based on what I have read before.

Writing  Styles of writing  How we teach writing at school  Shared writing  Guided writing  Supported independent writing  Cross curricular writing  Handwriting- Pen license

Writing Example:

Maths  Mental maths skills  Counting in 2’s, 5’s, 10’s  Times tables  Doubling – dominoes as visual  Halving, up to 20 and beyond with partitioning  Number bonds to 10 and 20  Adding 1 digit number to a 2 digit number  Counting on in 10’s from any number  Counting on in 100’s from any number  Target numbers – have a go!

Maths  Using and applying, number, shape space and measure, data handling  Calculating  100 square, dienes  Partitioning into 10s and units – key skill – have a go!  Addition and subtraction  Multiplication and division  At home – practical ‘maths’

Use partitioning to add 2 digit numbers together  =  =  Or,  use a 100 square, draw the 10s and units, draw a numberline

Draw the 10s and units  =

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