English



Each day we have a two hour English block, including our Phonics program (Spalding), one hour Reading and one hour of Writing. Students gain experience in reading different texts appropriate for their abilities in Shared Reading and Guided Reading groups. Students also learn how to create different types of texts such as Narrative, Recount, Exposition and Procedural. At the moment students are writing Narratives and learning how to revise and edit their own work, and then working in conference with the teacher to improve their stories. Students are the able to publish their work by typing it up on the computer. In Year 2 each week we have a Grammar focus - we have learnt about Synonyms, Antonyms, Verbs, Adjectives, Common and Proper Nouns, Questions and Answers. This week students will be working on how to change a word from singular to plural!