Year 2

Year 2 Homework

Children in Year 2 are trying really hard to see how far around the world they can travel by reading as many books as possible!

Please remember that children must read at home a minimum of 3 times per week. We change the children's reading books every day. It really does make a difference to their understanding across the curriculum! It is really important to discuss the book with your child to develop their comprehension skills. There are some questions below to help you.

• Find a few words/phrases/sentences that tell you about .... (character, setting, atmosphere)
• What do other people say about the character?
• How did...? What happened to...?
• What happened after...?
• What did... do, after...did...?
• Which word tells you about how big/small ...?
• Is it true/false...?
• What does (a particular word) mean?
• Draw a timeline of events.
• Find tow/three facts/reasons for...

Our Class Read

This term Year 2 are reading... 'The Giraffe, The Pelly & Me' by Roald Dahl

It would be fantastic if you could ask your child about the story and what they have learnt from reading the book so far.

The children will be discussing the book and the vocabulary used by the author. This term we will be focussing on helping the children develop skills to dig deeper into a text and identify the words they are unsure of. We will share and discuss the text together.

Children will have opportunities to read 1:1 with staff in school at least twice a week. We will be spending a lot of time developing children's fluency skills to speed up their reading. 

Spellings

Spellings go out weekly on a Friday and are to be tested the following Friday. Please get your child to practise writing them down as well as spelling them out loud. They need to see the pattern to help them learn the spelling. To understand the meaning of the words it is good practice to write them into sentences to understand them in context.

Each week spellings will focus on either a spelling pattern, or may be a selection of key words that children must be required to spell confidently and read on sight.