English

Initial Lit – (Reading and Viewing, Speaking and Listening) 

Reading

During Term Three, Year Twos are continuing to develop their comprehension skills through a variety of text types within the InitaLit program. Students will develop three main skills to deepen their comprehension of texts: inferring, finding the main idea and summarising. Inferring is the skill needed to understand what the author is telling the reader about a character or place by drawing on prior knowledge with text clues. Identifying the main idea is a useful strategy to draw on when you are searching for literal meanings, using details from the text. On the other hand, summarising is the ability to create a brief explanation about a text read.

Speaking and Listening

While engaging with the Term Three story books, The Stone Lion by Margaret Wild and Collecting Colour by Kylie Dunstan, Year Two students will build upon their vocabulary and speaking and listening skills. They will make predictions and summarise while responding to the texts. Year Two students will build vocabulary and practise using keywords into their own sentences.

Key Vocabulary: 

Reading: 

Inferring

Summarising

Main idea

Text clues

Speaking and Listening:

Generous 

Stumble

Pace

pesky

Writing/Spelling/Grammar

In Writing, students will investigate and create a range of poetry and information texts, further refining their authorship skills in entertaining and informing. Text types explored will include couplet and limerick poetry, as well as information reports. Grammar foci will encompass learning about different types of verbs, adverbs and prepositions. The Initialit program will inform spelling patterns taught which will include soft c and soft g, as well as silent letters such as k, w and b. 

Key Vocabulary: 

Rhyme

Paragraph

Syllables

Verbs

Poetry

How can you support your child’s English learning at home?  

• Check your child’s understanding of new words, they read. Ask, “What do you think the word means?” and discuss the definition together.
• Ensure your child reads every night for 10 –15 minutes to support growth in their accuracy and fluency skills.
• Encourage your child to complete regular practise of their spelling words through rainbow writing.