English Language and Literacy | Year 2
Experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic
• selecting vocabulary appropriate to the topic to replace everyday language
• discussing new vocabulary encountered in learning area texts
• exploring language used to describe characters in narratives, including nouns; for example, “magician”, “wizard”, “sorcerer”, and adjectives such as “gentle”, “timid” or “frightened”
• identifying words from First Nations Australians’ languages relevant to a topic