Year 2 unit overview — Term 3 English
School name
Unit title
Duration of unit
St Francis
Term 2 – Fairy Tales
11 Weeks
Unit outline
This unit will enhance students’ language, literature and literacy skills in the following ways:Language
Students will gain an understanding:
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That spoken, visual and written forms of language are different modes of communication with different features;
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That different language can be used depending on the audience, purpose and context;
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That nouns represent people, places and things and capital letters signal proper nouns;
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That some features of texts can help organise the text;
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How to connect sentences by using conjunctions;
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The use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with such vocabulary;
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Digraphs and consonant blends and use these in their writing;
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That commas are used to separate items in lists;
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Identify characters and their representations in narratives;
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That different vocabulary is used for different purposes;
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Of how to spell words by making associations with spelling rules such as long vowels, blends, silent letters etc.
Literature
Students will:
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Recognise that most sound-letter matches including digraphs and vowel/consonants;
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Discuss the characters and settings of different texts and explore how language is used;
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Identify, reproduce and experiment with rhythmic, sound and word patterns in poems, rhymes and songs;
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Create events and characters;
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Discuss different texts.
Janeen Smithson – Grade 2S
School name
Unit title
Literacy
Students will:
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Listen for specific purposes and information, including instructions;
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Use interaction skills including during group activities;
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Deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics;
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Make predictions of texts;
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Re-read and edit texts for spelling and sentence boundary punctuation;
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Use comprehension strategies to analyse texts;
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Create short imaginative stories and recounts;
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Write legibly using unjoined upper case and lower case letters;
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Use word processing programs to construct texts.
These understandings will assist students not only through their schooling years but beyond.
The unit will:
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Encourage students to read everyday
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Encourage students to write everyday
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Encourage students to use their imagination
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Encourage students to develop and understand techniques to assist them in reading, writing and understanding.
JANEEN SMITHSON – Class 2S
Duration of unit
Identify curriculum
Content descriptions to be taught
Language
Literature
Literacy
Understand that language varies
when people take on different roles in
social and classroom interactions and
how the use of key interpersonal
language resources varies depending
on context (ACELA1461)
Discuss how depictions of characters
in print, sound and images reflect the
contexts in which they were created
(ACELT1587)
Listen for specific purposes and
information, including instructions and
extend students’ own and others’
ideas in discussions (ACELY1666)
Understand that different types of
texts have identifiable text structures
and language features that help the
text serve its purpose (ACELA1463)
Compare opinions about characters,
events and settings in and between
texts (ACELT1589)
Use interaction skills including
initiating topics, making positive
statements and voicing disagreement
in an appropriate manner, speaking
clearly and varying tone, volume and
pace appropriately (ACELY1789)
Discuss the characters and settings of
different texts and explore how
language is used to present these
features in different ways
(ACELT1591)
Rehearse and deliver short
presentations on familiar and new
topics (ACELY1667)
Know some features of text
organisation including page and
screen layouts, alphabetical order,
and different types of diagrams, for
example timelines (ACELA1466)
Identify, reproduce and experiment
with rhythmic, sound and word
patterns in poems, chants, thymes
and songs (ACELT1592)
Identify the audience of imaginative
texts (ACELY1668)
Understand that simple connections
can be made between ideas by using
compound sentences with two or
more clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction (ACELA1467)
Create events and characters using
different media that develop key
events and characters from literary
texts (ACELT1593)
Use comprehension strategies to build
literal and inferred meaning and begin
to analyse texts by drawing on
growing knowledge of context,
language and visual features and print
and multimodal text structures
(ACELY1670)
Janeen Smithson – Grade 2S
ICT capability
Students will:
 Experiment with different ICTs
 Organise data and information
Recognise that capital letters signal
proper nouns (ACELA1465)
Understand that nouns represent
people, places, things and ideas and
can be, for example, common, proper,
concrete, abstract and that noun
groups/phrases can be expanded
using articles and adjectives
(ACELA1468)
General capabilities and
cross-curriculum priorities
Identify aspects of different types of
literary texts that entertain, and give
reasons for personal preferences
(ACELT1590)
 Represent information
 Record evidence of their learning
 Follow guidelines.
Australian Curriculum: Science
 Respond to and pose questions
and make predictions about familiar
objects and events (ACSIS037)
 Participate in different types of
guided investigations to explore
and answer questions, such as
manipulating materials, testing
ideas and accessing information
sources (ACSIS038).
Australian Curriculum: History
Create short imaginative texts using
growing knowledge of text structures
and language features for familiar and
some less familiar audiences,
selecting print and multimodal
elements appropriate to the audience
and purpose (ACELY1671)
 Sequence familiar objects and
events
Art:
 Select ideas for arts works,
considering particular audience and
particular purposes;
 Create and shape arts works
Identify curriculum
Understand how to use digraphs, long
vowels, blends and silent letters to
spell words, and use morphemes and
syllabification to break up simple
words and use visual memory to write
irregular words (ACELA1471)
Re-read and edit text for spelling,
sentence boundary punctuation and
text structure (ACELY 1672)
Recognise most sound–letter matches
including silent letters,
vowel/consonant digraphs and many
less common sound–letter
combinations (ACELA1474)
Write legibly and with growing fluency
using unjoined upper case and lower
case letters (ACELY 1673)
Understand that spoken, visual and
written forms of language are different
modes of communication with different
features and their use varies
according to the audience, purpose,
context and cultural background
Construct texts featuring print, visual
and audio elements using software,
including word processing programs
(ACELY 1674)
(ACELA1460)
Identify visual representations of
characters’ actions, reactions, speech
and thought processes in narratives,
and consider how these images add
to or contradict or multiply the
meaning of accompanying words
(ACELA1469)
Understand the use of vocabulary
about familiar and new topics and
experiment with and begin to make
conscious choices of vocabulary to
suit audience and purpose
(ACELA1470)
Assessment
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Describe the assessment
Assessment date
Summative Assessments:
Week 7
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Students will write a Fairytale
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Spelling and grammar test
JANEEN SMITHSON – Class 2S
Assessment
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Students will create a wanted poster.
Formative Assessment:
Observations of students will be made throughout the term during lessons to
determine students:-
Reading skills. Observations will be made during group reading sessions,
one-on-one reading and general reading observations during lessons;
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Writing skills. Observations will be made of students recount of weekend,
completion of Grammar Convention text, Spelling Rules text and general
writing throughout lessons;
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Handwriting skills will be observed in Text and general writing throughout
term;
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Comprehension skills will be observed through weekly grammar tests as
well as through observations in lessons.
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Grammar skills will be observed through weekly recount, grammar
convention text and through observations in lessons.
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Oral presentation skills will be observed through show and tell, group and
individual presentations;
Janeen Smithson – Grade 2S
Ongoing throughout term
WEEK MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
English – Recount of
School Holiday
1
English – reading
Comprehension
Phoneme Lesson –
ir
Dictionary Skills
Spelling Test
Handwriting
ur
Thesaurus skills
2
English Lesson
- Writing skills –
putting a story
in order.
- Show and tell
Grammar – nouns,
verbs, adjectives
English – Reading
Comprehension.
Phoneme Lesson

er
Dictionary Skills

or
Thesaurus Skills
Handwriting
-Spelling Test
-Write recount of
week
-Write in blog
Lexia
3
English Lesson
- Writing Skills –
- Fairy Tales –
how to write a
fairy tale
- Show and Tell
Grammar – contractions
isn’t
English – Reading
Comprehension.
didn’t
Dictionary Skills
haven’t
Thesaurus Skills
hasn’t
Lexia
Phoneme Lesson
ee
ea
-Spelling Test
-Write recount of
week
-Write in blog
Handwriting
shouldn’t
couldn’t
we’ll
they’ll
4
English Lesson
- Writing Skills –
Faiytales –
How to write a
fairy tale
- Show and Tell
Grammar –contractions
would’ve
could’ve
Dictionary Skills
should’ve
Thesaurus Skills
we’re
Lexia
they’re
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JANEEN SMITHSON – Class 2S
English – Reading
Comprehension.
Phoneme Lesson
- Oo - moon
- Oo - book
Handwriting
-Spelling Test
-Write recount of
weekend
-Write in blog
5
English Lesson
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6
Writing skills Persuasive
Text – That
the big bad
wolf is nice
Show and Tell
English Lesson
- Writing Skills –
Wanted
Poster
- Show and Tell
Grammar – Lesson
English – Reading
Comprehension.
Phoneme Lesson
- y
that’s
Dictionary Skills
Handwriting
what’s
Thesaurus Skills
contractions –
Lexia
Grammar – Lesson
Homophones – words
that sound the same but
mean different things.
aloud and allowed
7
8
-Spelling Test
-Write recount of
weekend
-Write in blog
English Lesson
- Writing skills –
Writing a story
using
paragraphs
- Show and Tell
Grammar – Opposites
English Lesson
- Poetry Rhyming
- Show and Tell
Grammar –
paragraphing
English – Reading
Comprehension.
Phoneme Lesson
c
Dictionary Skills
Thesaurus Skills
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g
Handwriting
-Spelling Test
-Write recount of
weekend
Fairytale Play
Lexia
English – Reading
Comprehension.
Dictionary Skills
Phoneme Lesson
- igh
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Handwriting
-Spelling Test
-Write recount of
weekend
Fairytale Play
Thesaurus Skills
Lexia
English – Reading
Comprehension.
Phoneme Lesson
- ed
ing
Dictionary Skills
Thesaurus Skills
- Spelling Test
-Write recount of
weekend
Fairytale Play
Handwriting
Lexia
9
English Lesson
- Poetry Acrostic
- Show and Tell
Grammar –
paragraphing
English – Reading
Comprehension.
Dictionary Skills
Thesaurus Skills
Lexia
Janeen Smithson – Grade 2S
Phoneme Lesson
- s
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Handwriting
-spelling Test
-Write recount of
weekend
Fairytale Play
10
English Lesson Poetry
Grammar paragraphing
English – Reading
Comprehension
Phoneme Lesson
Spelling Test
Dictionary skills
Write Recount of
weekend.
Thesaurus Skills
Fairytale play
Lexia
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JANEEN SMITHSON – Class 2S
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