Year 2
Year 2:
English reading.
You can help by:
- Reading your child a story every night. They will slowly absorb new vocabulary and begin to recognise words by sight.
- Support your child with their reading book. Your child should be able to explain how they sound out the words using their phonic knowledge.
- Get your child to read for real: this could include labels on jars, signs when your out etc
English writing.
You can help by:
- Getting your child to write, write, write. Get your child to write before they eat their dinner. Even if it is a few sentences, it is starting to embed critical skills of hand dexterity, muscle memory, writing endurance, not to mention letter formation and word memory.
- The example below shows what a child at year 2 might be expected to produce at the end of the academic year. The short story is deemed to be from a child who is meeting the required writing standards for their age.