English Language and Literacy | Year 2
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures
• making connections between the text and students’ own experiences and experiences with other texts, comparing authors’ differing point of view on a topic
• making connections between information in print and images
• building on and using prior knowledge and vocabulary
• making valid inferences using information in a text and students’ own prior knowledge
• predicting, asking and answering questions as they read, and summarising and reviewing meaning
• Students learn to identify and extract key information from the text to deepen their comprehension.
• Students learn to relate elements of the text to their own lives.
• Students are learning to make predictions and connections between the illustrations and text to deepen their understanding of the story.