Writing Teaching Resources for Year 2

Using Adjectives

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that an adjective provides information about a noun and is often called a describing word.

Capital Letters and Punctuation - Fix It!

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that capital letters and punctuation are used to build sentences.

Capital Letters and Punctuation

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that capital letters and different types of punctuation are used to build sentences.

Common and Proper Nouns

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that a noun is a naming word used for a person, place or object.

Writing a Fairy Tale

A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a fairy tale, using appropriate text structure, language and features.

Publishing a Recipe Book

A 60 minute lesson in which students will publish a simple recipe for bush stew.

Independent Writing - How to Make Bush Stew

A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a recipe for bush stew.

Guided Writing - How To Make Fruit Salad

A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple recipe for fruit salad in small groups.

Modelled Writing - How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth

A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple procedure about a familiar experience.

Simon Says!

A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore action verbs, common nouns and adverbial phrases in procedures.

Personal Recounts - Independent Writing

A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently construct a simple personal recount about a familiar experience.

Personal Recounts - Shared Writing

A 60 minute lesson in which students will construct a simple personal recount about a familiar experience in pairs.

Personal Recounts - Modelled Writing

A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple personal recount about a familiar experience.

Adding Detail Using Emotion Words

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how emotion words can add detail to a personal recount.

Adding Detail Using Describing Words

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how descriptive words, such as adjectives, can add detail to a personal recount.

Action Verbs in Simple Past Tense

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how action verbs can be expressed in simple past tense.

Personal Recounts - Text Structure

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of personal recounts.

On the Weekend

What Pet Should I Get? - Shared Writing

A 60 minute lesson in which students will construct a simple persuasive text on a familiar situation in pairs.

For or Against?

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate reasons for and against a situation or topic.

Understanding Point of View

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate point of view in relation to a situation or topic.

Let's Build a Sentence

A 60 minute lesson in which students will write simple and compound sentences.

Building Simple Sentences

A 60 minute lesson in which students will build a simple sentence.

Very Important Verbs

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that a verb describes an action in clauses or sentences.

What is a Sentence?

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that a simple sentence is a group of words that contains a subject, a verb and expresses a complete thought.