Language · Grade 2

Skills

• Listens to a 15-minute explanation and reports back its main point.
• Describes an object or a process clearly enough for a listener to picture it.
• Answers the telephone politely, takes the caller's name, and calls an adult.
• Shows an object to the class and talks about it for a minute without reading.
• Reads an age-appropriate text aloud fluently, respecting full stops and question marks.
• Recognises the common irregular/high-frequency words on sight.
• Predicts what will happen next and justifies the prediction from the text.
• Retells a read story in their own words, keeping the sequence.
• Chooses their own book from a library or shelf and finishes it.
• Uses a library: finds a section, borrows a book, returns it on time.
• Writes a full page legibly without their hand tiring out.
• Applies the language's basic spelling patterns and their common exceptions.
• Uses a picture dictionary or a simple dictionary to check a word.
• Identifies nouns, verbs and adjectives in a sentence.
• Makes subject and verb agree; keeps a piece of writing in one tense.
• Writes a short story with a beginning, a middle and an end.
• Writes a simple letter or message to a real person, and sends it.
• Knows the difference between a true story and an invented one.