Curso 2
Grade 2 English Tutoring
Live online Grade 2 English in groups of four: digraphs and long vowels, statements and questions, commas in lists, verb endings, and writing linked sentences.
La respuesta corta
Grade 2 English moves from single sentences to writing that holds together. The year covers digraphs and long vowel sounds, traditional tales and non-fiction, question marks and commas in lists, nouns, verbs and adjectives, verb endings, four sentence types, connectives, irregular plurals and retelling a story.
Lo que cubrimos en Inglés de 2º curso
- Phonics: digraphs, split digraphs and long vowel sounds
- Reading traditional tales and simple non-fiction
- Capital letters, full stops and question marks
- Commas to separate items in a list
- Nouns, verbs and simple adjectives
- Verb endings -s, -ed and -ing
- Writing statements, questions, commands and instructions
- Joining sentences with and, but and so
- Irregular plurals and common spelling patterns
- Speaking and listening: retelling a story in order
Al final del año
- Read a short story or information text independently and retell the main events in the right order.
- Write several linked sentences using capital letters, full stops and question marks correctly.
- Use adjectives and correct verb endings to add detail and to show when something happened.
Dónde se atascan los alumnos
- Run-on sentences strung together with 'and … and … and' instead of being broken up with full stops.
- Slipping between past and present tense inside the same piece of writing.
Four kinds of sentence
Grade 2 is where a sentence stops being one thing. Statements, questions, commands and instructions each look different on the page and do different jobs, and a child who can only write statements has one tool for every task.
Instructions are the most useful of the four to practise, because the reader either can or cannot follow them. Feedback is immediate and it is not a matter of opinion, which children of seven find much easier to accept than a teacher's judgement about style.
The 'and … and … and' sentence
A seven-year-old with a story to tell will run the whole thing into one breath, joined with and. It is not a punctuation failure so much as an ordering one: everything happened, so everything goes in, in the order it arrives in memory.
Reading the writing aloud is the quickest fix. Where the child stops to breathe is almost always where the full stop belongs, and hearing their own run-on sentence teaches the rule faster than being told it.
Tense that drifts mid-story
A recount that opens 'Yesterday we went to the park' and continues 'and then I see a dog' is the standard Grade 2 pattern. The child slips into the present as the memory becomes vivid, and does not notice.
We teach the -ed ending as a decision made once, at the start of a piece, rather than word by word. Choosing the tense before writing and checking it afterwards catches most of it, and the habit is worth building now because the same drift reappears in Grade 7 essays.
- Sentence types Grade 2 writes: statement, question, command, instruction
- 4Sentence types Grade 2 writes: statement, question, command, instruction[1]
- Session length
- 45 minSession length
- Maximum students in a group
- 4Maximum students in a group
Preguntas frecuentes
What English should a Grade 2 child know?
Reading a short story or information text independently and retelling it in order, writing several linked sentences with capital letters, full stops and question marks, using commas in a list, and using adjectives and correct verb endings.
Why does my child's writing have no full stops?
Because the story arrives faster than the punctuation. It is the standard Grade 2 pattern rather than a sign of weakness, and reading the piece back aloud usually fixes it — a child hears where the breath belongs even when they cannot see it.
Should a Grade 2 child still be doing phonics?
Yes. Grade 2 phonics covers digraphs, split digraphs and long vowel sounds, which is what unlocks longer words. Stopping phonics because a child can read simple books leaves them guessing at anything unfamiliar.
Fuentes
- Cambridge Primary English Curriculum Framework 0058 — Cambridge Assessment International Education
- Cambridge Primary English curriculum — Cambridge Assessment International Education
- National curriculum in England: English programmes of study — Department for Education
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