Oz-e-English Writing (Language) Unit 2: Persuasive Year 2

Oz-e-English: Writing (Language) Year 2 is an English unit for Year 2 students.
It aligns to the Australian Curriculum: Language Content Strands: 

Text structure and organisation:

• Understand how texts are made cohesive through language features, including word associations, synonyms, and antonyms (ACELA1464)
• Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists (ACELA1465)

Expressing and developing ideas:

• Understand that simple connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with two or more clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction (ACELA1467)
• Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives (ACELA1468)

Phonics and word knowledge

• Build morphemic word families using knowledge of prefixes and suffixes (ACELA1472)

Note: Information on this page is subject to change as this program is currently being updated to align with version 9.0 of the Australian Curriculum. GGSA will release an updated version in early 2023.

Success criteria

• Use everyday language features and topic-specific vocabulary when discussing ideas and experiences.
• Explain preferences for aspects of texts using other texts as comparisons.
• Create texts that show how images support the meaning of the text.
• Create texts, drawing on their own experiences, their imagination and information they have learnt.
• Use a variety of strategies to engage in group and class discussions and make presentations.
• Spell words with regular spelling patterns and spell words with less common long vowel patterns accurately.
• Use punctuation accurately and write words and sentences legibly using unjoined upper- and lower-case letters.