St.

Hilary’s Primary School

Scheme of Work
Year 2017- 2018
Grade 2 Term 2 English Learning Targets

Week Learning Targets Assignments

1&2 Vocabulary Targets: Compare and

contrast writing
- Book-related vocabulary: Town, everyone, troubles, although, people, whispers, magic, because,
headache, water. Writing Journal
- Others: Present and past tense verbs
Reading Pack
Reading/Theme Targets:

- Students will be able to identify the characters, setting, problem, and solution in Strega Nona
- Students can accurately identify the beginning, middle and ending of Strega Nona
- Students will be able to describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they
appear (e.g. what moment an illustration in a story depicts).
- Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

Writing Workshop Targets:

- Students will revise present, past and future tenses

- Students will be able to use past and present tense in a piece of writing to compare and contrast
events in the past and in the present

Speaking and Listening Targets:

- Students will be able to orally describe and compare events of the past and present
3&4 Chinese New Year
To be announced

5&6 Vocabulary Targets: Booklet of

themes in Strega
Book-related vocabulary: Special, wanted, getting, needed, someone, little, garden, sign, square, attention. Nona
Others: Connectives
Scenario
Reading/Theme Targets: demonstrating
cause and effect
- Students will be able to identify themes related to punishment and authority in the story
- Students will be able to identify themes related to trust and problem-solving in the story Writing Journal
- Students will be able to relate to themes in the story with their own life
- Students will learn about cause and effect Reading Pack

Writing Workshop Targets:

- Students will be able to create an anchor chart to demonstrate cause and effect
- Students can use pictures to infer cause and effect
- Students are able to create a cause and effect matching game
- Students will use a scenario to demonstrate cause and effect

Speaking and Listening Targets:

Students will be able to use connectives in speech – cause and effect

7&8 Vocabulary Targets: Countable and
uncountable
Book-related vocabulary: Sweep, vegetables, feed, milk, fetch, place, sleep, never, touch, valuable. nouns, plural
nouns,
Others: Countable and uncountable nouns, plural nouns, quantifiers.
quantifiers pack
Reading/Theme Targets:
Food Pyramid
- Students will be able to identify countable and uncountable nouns
- Students will be able to correctly use plural nouns Writing Journal
- Students will be able to identify quantifiers and use them in sentences (few, little, much, many, etc.)

Please note: The English curriculum above is a basic outline of the targets that will be achieved. The curriculum will be
adjusted for differentiation in each class and the needs of the students.
 St. Hilary’s Primary School
Scheme of Work
Year 2017- 2018
Grade 2 Term 2 English Learning Targets

Week Learning Targets Assignments

Writing Workshop Targets:

- Students will be able to use quantifiers and nouns in their writing

- Students will be able to create a food pyramid and incorporate the countable, uncountable, plural
nouns and quantifiers they have learnt

Speaking and Listening Targets:

- Students will be able to use the learnt vocabulary to describe their food pyramid to classmates
9 & 10 Easter Holidays To be announced

11 & 12 (Weeks 9 & 10) Vocabulary Targets: Reading Pack

Book-related words: anyone, evening, came, heard, singing, peeking, standing, saw, hungry, enough. Writing Journal
(Weeks 11 & 12) Vocabulary Targets:

Book related words: suddenly, until, wonderful, sure, happened, laughed, silly, better, angry, wasn’t.

Reading/Theme Targets:

- Students will be able to identify the characters, setting, problem, and solution in Jamie O’Rourke and
the Big Potato
- Students can accurately identify the beginning, middle and ending of Jamie O’Rourke and the Big
Potato
- Students will be able to identify different homophones
- Students will be able to identify different compound words

Writing Workshop Targets:

- Students will be able to use homophones in written sentences

- Students will be able to compare and draw two sentences using homophones

Speaking and Listening Targets:

- Students will be able to present a show and tell describing their past and present
13 & 14 Vocabulary Targets: Writing Journal

Book-related vocabulary: lazy, avoid, especially, growing, potatoes, nothing, whine, yourself, break, tiny Shared-writing
Others: Fairy tale characters and settings and titles
Different ending
Reading/Theme Targets: story writing piece

- Students will explore a range of folktales and fairy tales

- Students will be able to identify the ending of a story and manipulate it to create their own ending of
a story

Writing Workshop Targets:

- Students will be able to participate in shared writing – Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes – Little Red
Riding Hood
- Students will be able to write a story in which they will create and predict an ending based on
information that they have been given

Speaking and Listening Targets:

Please note: The English curriculum above is a basic outline of the targets that will be achieved. The curriculum will be
adjusted for differentiation in each class and the needs of the students.
 St. Hilary’s Primary School
Scheme of Work
Year 2017- 2018
Grade 2 Term 2 English Learning Targets

Week Learning Targets Assignments

- Students will be able to share a story with their classmates for book day
15 - 18 WEEKS 15 - 18

UNIT ON POETRY WRITING

Learning Targets:

(Weeks 15 & 16) Vocabulary Targets:

Book-related words: planting, watering, weeding, dig, larger, money, seed, poor, smiled, herself

(Weeks 17 & 18) Vocabulary Targets:

Book-related words: worry, church, soon, even, though, midnight, halfway, moonlight, leprechaun, fairy

Other words: Rhyming words, poetry related words

Reading/Theme Targets:

- Students will explore a range of different types of poetry including autobiographical poems, cinquain, color poem, haiku,
limericks, rhyming poems, shape poems, five senses poems

- Students will learn writing skills and styles relating to poetry writing including syllables, rhyming, alliterations, similes

- Students will be able to identify syllables in words and sentences

- Students will be able to identify rhymes within sentences

- Students will be able to identify alliterations and similes within poetry

Writing Workshop Targets:

- Students will be able to write an autobiographical poem

- Students will be able to write a cinquain poem

- Students will be able to write a haiku

- Students will be able to write a shape poem

- Students will be able to write a five senses poem

- Students will be able to apply poetry skills in their writing

Speaking and Listening Targets:

- Students will be able to share their poems in small groups and in front of the class

Assignment:

- Cinquain, shape poem, five senses poem, haiku poem, autobiographical poem
19 - 20 Speaking Assessment + Revision

21 2nd End of Term Assessment

Please note: The English curriculum above is a basic outline of the targets that will be achieved. The curriculum will be
adjusted for differentiation in each class and the needs of the students.