Year 2 – Supporting Children in English

• Supports home learning

Reading and Comprehension

Word reading:

• Practise recognising common exception words (CEWs). You can find a list of Year 2 common exception words at the end of the ‘I Can Statements’ resource. Play games with CEWs: make up silly sentences with them or put them on the fridge.
• Encourage the use of phonics to decipher unknown words, as well as the context of the writing, images, and checking for sense.

Comprehension:

• Expose children to a range of books – find ones that interest and excite them. Many children will want to reread, or have reread to them, specific books – this fine as they will gain so much from listening to you read (expression, voices, fluency etc) and they will gain confidence and the opportunity to practise other reading skills when they reread a book.
• Explore the VIPERS/Reading Content Domains approach to comprehension questioning. This approach offers lots of ideas to get children thinking about what they read and what is read to them.
• Model reading aloud, using voices and expression and correct yourself openly – this teaches children to correct themselves, which is a sign that they understand the text they are reading as they know when it doesn’t make sense! This is a sign of a good reader.