Year 2 Term 2 Overviews

Term 2 Curriculum:

Reading:

This term in reading, Year 2 students will make connections, compare and contrast texts of the same genre and text types including nonfiction and fiction texts. While reading, students will solve words using their growing phonemic and morphemic knowledge and they will re-read a word or a phrase to self monitor their reading. Students will use organisational tools and text resources such as titles, chapter titles, glossaries, tables of contents, captions, and labels to support their understanding of the text. They will identify and summarise the important information in nonfiction and fiction texts. When reading and discussing texts, students will take evidence from multiple sources to make inferences.

Writing:

This term in writing, Year 2 students will be exploring persuasive text writing, developing their opinions and reasoning. Students will be able to use word choice and voice to demonstrate how they feel about a chosen topic and share why it is important to them. Through this unit, students will be continuing to develop well-crafted sentences by using a combination of simple and compound sentences and begin to experiment with paragraphs and a variety of punctuation such as full stops, question marks, exclamations marks, and commas. Students will explore literary techniques such as interesting words, descriptions, modality words and rhetorical questions. 

Mathematics:

This term in maths, year 2 students will be measuring the length, capacity and mass of several shapes and objects using appropriate informal units of measurement. Students will also recognise and represent multiplication and division through a variety of multiplicative strategies such as repeated addition, groups and arrays. Students will explore two-dimensional shapes by identifying their features and investigating the effects of transformations. The year 2 students will explore simple maps of familiar locations and identify the position of key features within these maps, and create pathways using directional language and programs for their peers. Students will also build on their flexible additive strategies by solving simple addition and subtraction problems using a range of efficient mental and written strategies.

Inquiry:

This term year 2 students will be inquiring into environmental sustainability with the lens that people use the earth's resources in a variety of ways. Students will explore the earth's resources, how people use them, the impact of a lack of resources, how we can conserve our resources and the positive impacts of these actions.

Social Emotional Learning:

This Term in SEL, Year 2 students will learn to understand themselves by exploring their likes, dislikes, interests, and achievements. They will recognise that gender doesn’t limit what they can enjoy or do. They’ll be encouraged to try new things, develop skills to reach their goals, and show kindness and respect for others’ differences.

Nightly Reading:

It is important for your child to continue reading every night. Every morning your child is expected to change their take home book or utilise WUSHKA to practice their reading goal. This should be documented in your child’s yellow Take Home Reading Journal.