1. Reading and Writing Parent Workshop
Year 2

2. Cursive Handwriting
By the end of year 2 children are expected to be able to join most of their letters in the cursive style.

3. Cursive handwriting

4. Cursive handwriting Please use the handwriting lines provided.
Practice cursive handwriting with your child at least once a week.
Use the youtube video to help.
Focus on individual letters then progress to writing words.

5. Cursive handwriting

6. Spelling- using phonics
In year 1 children learnt the phase 2, 3 and 5 sounds.
We encourage children to continue using these sounds to help with their spellings.
painting not paiting
with not whith
might not mite

7. SPELLING- Quick Activity
Sarah wet to the parc whith her friends. She played on the swigs then she eated some ice cream. After she walked hom. Can you correct the spelling mistakes?

8. Improving spelling
Please do your homework with your child, correcting their spelling mistakes.
Practice their weekly spellings with them.
Write sentences with deliberate spelling mistakes- ask them to correct your spellings.

9. Punctuation
By the end of year 2 children should be able to use capital letters and full stops. We also encourage them to use speech marks, question marks and exclamation marks where appropriate.

10. Punctuation- Quick activity
Last night I went to my cousins house for a birthday party we ate pizza and chips afterwards my cousin opened his presents he got a toy car Where should the full stops go?

11. Punctuation- Quick activity
Last summer I went on a fast rollercoaster and it was so exciting. Afterwards I went home and ate chips. I burnt my mouth because they were too hot. I said “ouch”. What did you do last summer. Which full stops should be question or exclamation marks?

12. Punctuation
Encourage children to read their writing and think about where the reader needs to take a break- this is where the full stop goes.
Write sentences without full stops- ask your child to add the full stops.
Encourage them to use exclamation and question marks where appropriate.
The more your child reads the more they will understand the significance of punctuation.

13. Suffixes
A suffix is a group of letters added to the end of a word (root word) to create a new word. E.g. wonder + ful = wonderful dark + ness = darkness help + less = helpless equip + ment = equipment quick + ly = quickly

14. Suffixes- Activity
treat ful hope ness love less help ment sad ly

15. Suffixes- Activity
kind
kindly
kinder
kindness

16. Suffixes- Activity
help

17. Suffixes- At home
By the end of year 2 children should be able to spell words containing the suffixes ly, ment, ness, ful and less.
Give your child a list of root words and suffixes- ask them to join them correctly.
Give your child a root word and ask them to write all the possible new words with suffixes.
Ask them to use the new words in sentences.

18. Two stages of reading
1) Being able to read the words using phonic knowledge (decoding). 2) Understanding what they are reading (comprehension).
Stage 1- Decoding
Stage 2-Comprehension

19. End of year 2 Objectives Read words aloud quickly and accurately.
Sound out unfamiliar words accurately.
Read most words containing suffixes.
Read over 90 words per minute.
Answer questions on the basis of what is being said and done.
Understand the features of both fiction and non-fiction texts.
Evidence an understanding of what they read (comprehension).

20. Stage 1- Decoding Please make sure your child reads every night.
Encourage them to read aloud to improve their fluency and accuracy.
Please use Bug Club.
The more they read the more fluent they will become.

21. Stage 2- Comprehension
Children should be able to answer questions about a story they have read to show their understanding.
“Why did this happen?”
“Why do you think the character was feeling this way? How do you know?”
“Which words tell us the character was feeling sad?”

22. Reading- Quick Activity
Though it is one of the faded memories of my life today, there are times when I remember his face clearly, especially his eyes. As he had yellow spots on his eyes we called him spotty. He would have been a stray dog, until, he came to me. It was a cold dark night. We had our meal and went to sleep. Somehow in the midnight I heard a loud thud outside the main door.
I mustered courage and peeped out through the window adjoining the door and I was really amused with what I saw outside. I went out and felt those refreshing raindrops with a cool breeze on my face.

23. SATS- Fiction and non fiction
End of KS1 tests will test children’s understanding of fiction AND non-fiction texts.
Fiction Non-Fiction

24. SATS- Typical questions

25. SATS- Typical questions

26. SATS- Typical questions

27. SATS- Typical questions

28. SATS- Typical questions

29. Typical questions- reading

30. SATS- PREPARING YOUR CHILD
Encourage your child to read a range of texts, fiction and non-fiction.
Please refer to the list of age related texts.
Please make sure your child reads every night.
Use the list of questions to develop your child’s comprehension skills.
Please check their reading homework.
Use Bug Club.

31. Thank you for coming Maths Workshop in Spring SATs meeting in Spring
Parent consultations in February
Please make sure homework is completed fully and on time- it is an important part of the SATs preparation.