Page 9 - Year by year break down Sample

A Year 2 speaker should..

• Ask questions to get more information and clarify meaning.

• Talk in complete sentences.

• Decide when to use specific vocabulary.

• Take turns when talking in pairs or a small group.

• Be aware that formal and informal situations require different
language (beginning).

• Retell a story using narrative language and linking words and
phrases.

• Hold the attention of people they are speaking to by adapting the
way they talk.

• Understand how to speak for different purposes and audiences
(beginning).

• Perform a simple poem from memory.

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