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