English - Year 2
Comprehension strategies Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures (ACELY1670)
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English - Year 2
Language for social interactions Understand that language varies when people take on different roles in social and classroom interactions and how the use of key interpersonal language resources varies depending on context (ACELA1461) Purpose audience …
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Museum in a box – AT
Students visited a local museum to investigate aspects of life in the past. Following the visit, students chose objects or technologies for teacher-guided research and inquiry, and students sequenced developments along a simple timeline and wrote scaffolded …
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Museum in a box – ABOVE
Students visited a local museum to investigate aspects of life in the past. Following the visit, students chose objects or technologies for teacher-guided research and inquiry, and students sequenced developments along a simple timeline and wrote scaffolded …
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My map and globe– ABOVE
Students completed a series of activities associated with world maps and globes. First, after examining a series of printed maps and discussing the locations of continents, oceans and geographic regions, students produced their own labelled map of the …
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A significant place – ABOVE
Students selected a significant site in their local area from a list provided by the teacher. Working with the teacher, and supported by the teacher-librarian, students posed a series of questions about the building or place and researched answers to …
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A significant place – AT
Students selected a significant site in their local area from a list provided by the teacher. Working with the teacher, and supported by the teacher-librarian, students posed a series of questions about the building or place and researched answers to …
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Creating a place – ABOVE
Students conducted surveys and collected data about different environments. Students then used the data to inform their drawings of imagined places and wrote reflections on the process and the choices they made. The entire task took place over a one-week …
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Creating a place – AT
Students conducted surveys and collected data about different environments. Students then used the data to inform their drawings of imagined places and wrote reflections on the process and the choices they made. The entire task took place over a one-week …
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Then and now – ABOVE (Year 2)
Students examined teacher-provided examples of current and past communication and entertainment devices. Students created labelled diagrams to indicate the key features of functions of each device. Students then spoke to another student in the class about …
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Then and now – AT (Year 2)
Students examined teacher-provided examples of current and past communication and entertainment devices. Students created labelled diagrams to indicate the key features of functions of each device. Students then spoke to another student in the class about …
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My map and globe – AT
Students completed a series of activities associated with world maps and globes. First, after examining a series of printed maps and discussing the locations of continents, oceans and geographic regions, students produced their own labelled map of the …
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Report: Elizabeth Farm House
Students attended Elizabeth Farm, a historical estate in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney, to investigate what life was like in the 1800s. The students explored the family home of wool pioneer John Macarthur and his wife Elizabeth, including the bedrooms …
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My connections – ABOVE
Students discussed their personal connections to places in the world beyond Australia, particularly the Asia-Pacific region. Students then labelled and annotated a teacher-provided map of the region to indicate and explain these connections. The task …
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My connections – AT
Students discussed their personal connections to places in the world beyond Australia, particularly the Asia-Pacific region. Students then labelled and annotated a teacher-provided map of the region to indicate and explain these connections. The task …
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English - Year 2
Language Language variation and change Understand that spoken, visual and written forms of language are different modes of communication with different features and their use varies according to the audience, purpose, context and cultural background …
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Media Arts - Foundation to Year 2
Exploring ideas and improvising with ways to represent ideas Explore ideas, characters and settings in the community through stories in images, sounds and text (ACAMAM054) Developing understanding of practices Use media technologies to capture …
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Literacy - Level 2 (Years 1 and 2)
Typically, by the end of Year 2, students: Navigate, read and view learning area texts navigate, read and view texts with illustrations and simple graphics Listen and respond to learning area texts listen to two or more step instructions for undertaking …
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Sharing stories: Picture book - ABOVE
Students were engaged in a unit about illustrating personal stories. They explored a range of painting and drawing techniques, as well as processes and materials to develop their understanding of illustrating storybooks. The processes included printmaking …
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Sharing stories: Picture book - AT
Students were engaged in a unit about illustrating personal stories. They explored a range of painting and drawing techniques, as well as processes and materials, to develop their understanding of illustrating storybooks. The processes included printmaking …
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