English Reading · Key Stage 1 Year 2
Year 2 Reading: Stories
By the end, your child can read a story aloud with expression, explain how and why a character feels, describe settings, retell events in order, answer and prove answers from the text, predict from clues and compare two stories.
About this topic
This course helps Year 2 children read longer stories closely and talk about them with growing confidence. It is built around one story about Bea the badger, who rescues a mouse in a storm, with a second story about Otto the otter for practice in a new setting. Each lesson starts by going back over the step before, then adds one new skill. Lesson 1 reads with expression, using punctuation and feeling words as clues. Lesson 2 works out how a character feels from what they do, and why they act as they do. Lesson 3 describes the setting and shows how a place can change the mood. Lesson 4 picks out the main events and retells them in order. Lesson 5 answers who, what, where, when and why questions. Lesson 6 is the heart of the course: children point to the exact words that prove their answer, and spot proof that does not fit. Lesson 7 predicts what happens next using clues and what they know about a character. Lesson 8 brings everything together by comparing the two stories and linking them to stories children already know. Every routine is short, numbered and worded the same each time it returns. A quick check ends each part of every lesson, a tapping quiz follows each lesson, and the course finishes with a final test and a ten minute spoken task.
What you will learn
- Read a story aloud with expression, using punctuation and feeling words as clues.
- Say how a character feels at different points in a story and why they act as they do.
- Describe the setting of a story, including where and when, and how it makes the reader feel.
- Pick out the main events of a story and retell them in order.
- Answer who, what, where, when and why questions about a story.
- Point to the exact words in a story that prove an answer is right.
- Predict what will happen next using clues and what is known about a character.
- Compare two stories, saying what is the same, what is not, and which is preferred and why.
Lessons
- 1Reading with expressionFree to try
- 2How does the character feel Locked
- 3Where the story is set Locked
- 4The main events in order Locked
- 5Answering questions Locked
- 6Finding the proof in the text Locked
- 7Predicting from clues Locked
- 8Comparing two stories Locked