Focus outcomes for English Stage 2

Learning to Talk and Listen — Talking and Listening

TS2.1 Communicates in informal and formal classroom activities in school and social situations for an increasing range of purpose on a variety of topics across the curriculum.

Purpose

• discusses and reflects upon a variety of responses and views

Audience

• participates in class discussions on a variety of topics

Learning to Read — Skills and Strategies

RS2.6 Uses efficiently an integrated range of skills and strategies when reading and interpreting written texts.

Contextual and Semantic Information

• skims a text for overall message using headings, subheadings, layout, graphics
• relates information

Grammatical Information

• identifies adjectives and how they are used to provide information about nouns

Graphological and Phonological Information

• uses word-identification strategies
• reads two- and three- syllable words and contractions

Information Skills

• locates information from sources such as books, pictures, bookmarked sections of the Internet, databases, CD-ROMs and media texts
• makes judgements about the appropriateness of information

Learning About Reading — Context and Text

RS2.7 Discusses how writers relate to their readers in different ways, how they create a variety of worlds through language and how they use language to achieve a wide range of purposes.

Purpose

• recognises and describes the purpose of a narrative, recount, procedure, information report

Audience

• distinguishes between fact and fiction

Responding to Texts

• makes general statements about how visual texts such as diagrams, tables and illustrations enhance or detract from meaning
• offers an opinion about a story or aspects of it

Learning About Reading — Language structures and Features

RS2.8 Discusses the text structure of a range of text types and the grammatical features that are characteristic of those text types.

Text Structure

• recognises cohesive links in a text

Grammar

• identifies additional elements in noun groups, and talks about how to build a noun group
• identifies evaluative language in texts and discusses the effects of such language

Learning to Write – Producing Texts

WS2.9 Drafts, revises, proofreads and publishes well-structured texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and written language features.
Joint and Independent Writing

• contributes to joint text construction activity

Audience

• writes for a chosen audience
• chooses when to write subjectively or objectively.