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English

Explore reading, writing and spoken language.

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How to learn in Year 2 English

Watch this short guide, then choose a lesson below.

Learn through explanations, worked examples and practice.

Your earlier submitted work and progress are retained in your learning history. These replacement lessons have their own progress.

Words and sounds

  1. Letters and sounds
  2. Read a word in parts
  3. Find the root word
  4. Notice the surprising part
  5. Read it again smoothly

Spelling patterns

  1. The ending in bridge and stage
  2. When c sounds like s
  3. The first letters in knee and gnaw
  4. Remember the w in wrap
  5. The endings in little and camel
  6. The endings in animal and pencil
  7. One fly, two flies
  8. Try, tried and trying
  9. Bake becomes baking
  10. Stop becomes stopping
  11. The a in ball and walk
  12. The letters in other and donkey
  13. The vowel letters after w and qu
  14. Listen inside television and station

Building words

  1. Make a word that names something
  2. Join two whole words
  3. Tell us how an action happens

Read a story

  1. Find it in the story
  2. What happened first?
  3. What do the clues suggest?
  4. What might happen next?
  5. Work out a new meaning

Books and poems

  1. Retell a familiar tale
  2. Find a fact
  3. Read a poem aloud

Sentences

  1. Add useful detail
  2. Tell, ask, command, exclaim
  3. Show where a sentence ends
  4. Join with and, but or or
  5. Give a reason or a time
  6. Now or before?
  7. An action going on

Punctuation and spelling

  1. Make a clear list
  2. Letters can be left out
  3. Whose bag is it?
  4. Same sound, different word
  5. Change a word's ending carefully
  6. Endings change meaning

Writing

  1. Say it before you write it
  2. Read your writing like a reader
  3. Help your reader

Handwriting

  1. Make writing easy to read

Listening and speaking

  1. Listen, ask and explain

Check your learning

  1. Year 2 English — course check