Year 2 Narrative - Unit 1
Stories with familiar settings
(4 weeks)
Overview
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(Reading and response): Read and tell a selection of stories with
settings and themes that are familiar to the children, for example
home, school, shops, holidays, getting lost, making friends, being
ill. Children retell stories in pairs focusing on the sequence of
events.
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Identify the characters. Use role-play to retell the story from one
character's point of view and explore different courses of action.
Children select a character and describe what they do in the story,
orally and in writing.
(Analysis): Review the stories. Discuss the way that one event
leads to another and identify temporal connectives. Represent the
story structure in note form.
Begin to tell another story. Invite predictions about characters'
actions and the sequence of events.
(Writing): Demonstrate how to plan the structure of a story:
opening, something happens, events to sort it out, ending.
Demonstrate how to write the beginning of the story. Children write
their own endings.
Children plan and tell stories based on their own experience. They
use the structure from shared writing to write their own complete
stories.
1998 Framework objectives covered:
Year 2, Term 1: T3 oral and written versions of stories; T4 understand time
and sequential relationships; T5 reasons for events in stories; T6 link story
themes with own experience; T10 use story structure to write about own
experience; T11 use language of time to structure a series of events.
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Year 2 – Core Skills
To ensure effective planning of literacy skills, teachers need to ensure they
plan for the ongoing elements of literacy learning within each unit and across
the year, using assessment for learning to ensure children make effective
progress, ensuring they reach national expectations.
These are the relevant strand objectives to ensure effective planning for core
skills.
Word recognition: decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling)
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Read independently and with increasing fluency longer and less
familiar texts
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Spell with increasing accuracy and confidence, drawing on word
recognition and knowledge of word structure, and spelling patterns
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Know how to tackle unfamiliar words that are not completely
decodable
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Read and spell less common alternative graphemes including
trigraphs
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Read high and medium frequency words independently and
automatically
Word structure and spelling - Year 2
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Spell with increasing accuracy and confidence, drawing on word
recognition and knowledge of word structure, and spelling patterns
including common inflections and use of double letters
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Read and spell less common alternative graphemes including
trigraphs
Sentence structure and punctuation - Year 2
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Write simple and compound sentences and begin to use
subordination in relation to time and reason
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Compose sentences using tense consistently (present and past)
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Use question marks, and use commas to separate items in a list
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Year 2 Narrative - Unit 1 - Resources
The following resources are to support the learning and teaching of Literacy
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Developing early writing, (Ref: 0055/2001) Year 2 unit 10: At the
Seaside
Learning to learn: key aspects of learning across the primary
curriculum, (Ref: 0526-2004) from Learning and teaching in the
primary years
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Aspects of narrative: stories with familiar settings
PDF 184KB
Writing flier 1 - Improving writing and 2 - Writing narrative, (Ref:
0532/2001)
PDF 63.2KB
Word 193KB
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