📖 Language · Grade 2

Read, Write, Talk 2

Reading longer words and fluent reading, working out new words, how stories and information texts work, writing stories and explanations, grammar, dictionaries and speaking to a group.

Units

1. Unit 1 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   Reading longer words

   Read words with ai, ee, oa, ar, or and er, and split long words into short parts you can already read.

2. Unit 2 · reading, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   Reading fluently

   Read a passage aloud so it sounds like talking, and fix your own mistakes as you go.

3. Unit 3 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   Working out new words

   Use the sentence around a new word and the pictures to guess what it means, then check your guess in a picture dictionary.

4. Unit 4 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   How stories work

   Find the characters, setting, problem and solution in a story, and notice how a character changes.

5. Unit 5 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   Reading to find out

   Use titles, headings, pictures and captions to find facts fast, and say what a paragraph is mostly about.

6. Unit 6 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   Comparing two versions of a story

   Read two tellings of a tale about a mouse who frees a trapped creature, and say what is the same and what is different.

7. Unit 7 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   Writing a story

   Plan and write a story with a beginning, a middle and an end, and use time words so readers know what happened in what order.

8. Unit 8 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   Writing to explain

   Write a short fact paragraph that opens with a topic sentence, gives facts, and closes, and learn to tell a fact from an opinion.

9. Unit 9 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

   Naming and doing words

   Find nouns, verbs and adjectives, and use capital letters, full stops, question marks and commas so your reader knows how to read.

10. Unit 10 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

    Alphabetical order and dictionaries

    Put words in ABC order, even when they start with the same letters, and use guide words to find any word in a dictionary fast.

11. Unit 11 · reading, lab, activity, quick check, quick check, activity

    Speaking to a group

    Plan a short talk, speak so everyone can hear and follow, and answer a listener's question.