Revision for Year Two

During the holidays, I would like you to reinforce the following skills with your Year One child.

English Skills 

• Reads appropriate texts aloud using reading strategies.
• Uses comprehension strategies to answer literal and inferred questions.
• Spell 150 high frequency words.
• Use nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives correctly in sentences. 
• Use basic conjunctions, contractions and similes in their writing. 
• Write recounts, procedures, narratives and persuasives, with neat writing and approximately one page in length. 
• Create texts with supporting images using word processing programs.
• Apply basic proof reading and editing skills.

Mathematics Skills 

• Orally count starting from 0 by 2s to 100. 
• Read and understand basic facts to 20 (addition and subtraction).
• Represent and solve simple addition and subtraction problems to 30 using concrete materials, illustrations, counting on and counting back, partitioning and rearranging parts.
• Count collections to 100 or more by partitioning numbers using place value.
• Automatically recall basic facts to 20.
• Recognise, describe and order Australian coins and notes according to value.
• Tell the time (hour and half hour).
• Recognise and classify 3D shapes using basic attributes and features.
• Choose simple questions and gather responses to collect data.
• Draw simple data displays.