Australian Curriculum:English Year 2 Learning Sequence

The Australian Curriculum: English Year Level Description for Year 2 states:

"Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, view and interpret multimodal texts in which the primary purpose is to entertain. These encompass picture books, poetry, multimodal texts..."

In addition it states that:

"Students create a variety of imaginative texts including imaginative retellings."

The Year Two learning sequence contained in this post was developed by Year 2 teacher Hannah Brackenreg from Woodlands PS - a Teacher Development School.

The sequence is linked to The Australian Curriculum - English content descriptions. 

You can access The Australian Curriculum by clicking this link:

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/

 

 

The sequence refers to the text "The Very Hungry Bear" by Nick Bland. It also refers to a traditional tale of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" and a poem entitled "A Dingaling".

 

 

Click HERE  for the Year Two sequence. This will allow you to download/view the teacher's lesson plan.When you click the link it will open in Google Docs. When that screen opens, click on FILE and then DOWNLOAD.

The link below will take you to some student work samples to view:

Imaginative Retell Work Samples

 

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Copyright notice for use of Australian Curriculum material

In regards to the planning tool in this post:

© Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority 2013.
This is an extract from the Australian Curriculum.
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