Year 2
Outcomes
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Language
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Language for interaction
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VCELA236
Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and thingsExamples
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VCELA236
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Text structure and organisation
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VCELA212
Understand that different types of texts have identifiable text structures and language features that help the text serve its purposeExamples
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VCELA224
Understand how texts are made cohesive through resources, for example word associations, synonyms, and antonyms�Examples
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VCELA225
Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in listsExamples
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VCELA212
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Expressing and developing ideas
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VCELA216
Understand that nouns represent people, places, things and ideas and can be, for example, common, proper, concrete or abstract, and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectivesExamples
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VCELA237
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 purposeExamples
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VCELA226
Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters, and syllibication to spell simple words including compound wordsPlay Activities 421Examples
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VCELA216
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Sound and letter knowledge
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VCELA218
Recognise most letter-sound matches including silent letters, trigraphs, vowel digraphs and common long vowels, and understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinationsPlay Activities 210Examples
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VCELA218
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Language for interaction
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Literacy
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Interpreting, analysing, evaluating
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VCELY221
Read familiar and some unfamiliar texts with phrasing and fluency by combining phonic, semantic, contextual, and grammatical knowledge using text processing strategies, including monitoring meaning, predicting, rereading and self-correctingExamples
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VCELY222
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 structuresPlay Activities 199Examples
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VCELY221
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Creating texts
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VCELY231
Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structureExamples
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VCELY231
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Interpreting, analysing, evaluating