Year 2
By the end of Year 2, children who are working at age related expectations should be able to:
Reading
• Secure with year group phonic expectations.
• Recognise simple recurring literary language.
• Read ahead to help with fluency and expression.
• Comment on plot, setting and characters in familiar and unfamiliar stories.
• Recount main themes and events.
• Comment on structure of the text.
• Use commas, question marks and exclamation marks to vary expression.
• Read aloud with expression and intonation.
• Recognise: commas in lists; apostrophe of omission and possession (singular noun)
• Identify past/present tense and why the writer has used a tense.
• Use content and index to locate information.
Writing
• Write different kinds of sentence: statement, question, exclamation, command.
• Use expanded noun phrases to add description and specification.
• Write using subordination (when, if, that, because) and co-ordination (or, and, but).
• Correct and consistent use of present tense and past tense.
• Correct use of verb tenses.
• Write with correct and consistent use of: capital letters; full stops; question marks; exclamation marks
• Use commas in a list.
• Use apostrophe to mark omission and singular possession in nouns.
• Write under headings.
• Write lower case letters correct size relative to one another.
• Show evidence of diagonal and horizontal strokes to join handwriting
Mathematics
• Compare and order numbers up to 100 and use < > =.
• Read and write all numbers to 100 in digits & words.
• Say 10 more/less than any number to 100.
• Count in steps of 2, 3 & 5 from zero and in 10s from any number (forwards and backwards).
• Recall and use multiplication & division facts for 2, 5 & 10 tables.
• Recall and use +/- facts to 20.
• Derive and use related facts to 100.
• Recognise place value of any 2-digit number.
• Add & subtract: 2-digit nos & ones; 2-digit nos & tens; two 2-digit nos; three 1-digit nos
• Recognise and use inverse (+/-).
• Calculate and write multiplication & division calculations using multiplication tables.
• Recognise, find, name and write 1/3; 1/4; 2/4; 3/4.
• Write and recognise equivalence of simple fractions.
• Tell time to five minutes, including quarter past/to