English KSSR (SK) Year 2 Textbook Contents

Unit

Phonics

Listening and
Speaking

Reading

Writing

Language
Structures

Vocabulary

Language Arts

Where are you from?

Where do you live?
What is your hobby?
When is your
birthday?
Must DO
Must not DO
Imperatives for
advice
Imperatives for
directions

ordinal numbers.
Months
Wh Q words
hobbies

Song: Hello, how

are you?
Finger puppet

Rules, queue,
recess, canteen,
timetable, grass

Chant
Design a poster
or timetable

Straight on/along
Turn left/right
At the ____
Go past the ___
Places in school

Using a
dictionary. Extra:
draw treasure
map.

1.We are back

Revision
from Yr 1
Blending
Initial sound

Introductions
Birthdays

A New Friend
Gap fill (ActBk)
Friendship

Postcard.
Punctuation:
capitals & full
stops

2. Do the Right
Thing
Rules, habits.

ai
ee

Talking about
rules & habits

Chant & Study tips

Fill in the
blanks: rules

3. Where am I?
Places in school,
directions

Oa
Igh

Directions

Follow directions to
hidden treasure

Completing
directions in a
paragraph.

Story: Kudin Feast

Choose the correct
word
Order the pictures
Little Red Riding
Hood story

Write out a
story replacing
certain words.

Can you help

please?

Farm, plant,
feast. (depends
on students)

Sock puppets to
role play a story.

Answer wh Qs
about a theatre
ticket. Complete
a poster.
Write a recipe
out in the
correct order.

I can

The five senses,

orchard, new
adjectives

Script for Little

Red Riding Hood

I would like to
What would you like?
Can I have...?

Prices
Food
Cooking utensils
Cooking verbs
Collect, make,

Song: This is the

way

Garden objects

Song: Sweet
Sunflower

Toad &
Goat
4. Read me a
story
Stories

Oo
Ar

Listening to the
story White
Radish

5. I am special
Abilities

Or
Ur
Burt & His
Horse
Oi
Ow

Talking about
our senses
Ordering at a
restaurant

A recipe.

7. Hobbies
Hobbies

Ear
Air
My friend
Claire

Little Pianist
Oral wh Qs.

Gap fill using a

table about
Ranis friends &
hobbies

I enjoy __because__
Comparative: Which
is more popular ___
or _____?

8. Growing
Plants
Science of plants

Ure
Er
Mermaid

Listen to
children talk
about their
hobbies. Talk
about hobbies.
Listen to
instructions and
repeat

I am a Rose
True or False
statements

Putting
instructions in
correct order

Sequencers: first,
Then,
Next, Finally.

6. Delicious
Food
Food

Chant and poem

with substitution
words.

English KSSR (SK) Year 2 Textbook Contents

Unit

Phonics

Listening and
Speaking

9. When I grow
up.
Jobs, work

Ay
Ou
A Hot Day

Librarian
Complete diagram
from text.

10. Caring &

Sharing
Friends, good
qualities

Ie
Ea
Papas
Peach
Cream Pies
Oy
Ir
The Toy

Talking about
jobs.
Listening to an
interview.
Listen to a story
with dialogue.
Practise the
dialogue.
Listen and read
a dialogue in a
clothes shop

11. Looking
Good
Shopping
Clothes
12. On the farm
Animals & their
uses
13. Good deeds
Natural disasters
14. Precious
Drops
Environment,
water
15. Save the
Sea Creatures
Conservation,
the environment

Ue
Aw
The Blue
Bird
Wh
Ph
Whippy &
Daphny
Ew
Oe
Joe &
Matthew
Au
a-e
Little Paul
the
Astronaut

Reading

Writing

Language
Structures

Free writing.
Sentences
about school &
jobs.
A note to a
friend using a
model.

What do you want to

be?
I want to be

Jobs
Verbs for jobs

Egg shell
puppets

Could you give me

some..?

Adjectives for
personality

Making an award
rosette (button)

Troy Story
Oral wh
comprehension Qs

Gap fill
sentences from
a diagram.

May I have...?
Can I try..?
What size?

Clothes and
adjectives for
clothes.

Design clothes
for a robot.

Listen to short
dialogues about
farm animals.
Talk about other
animals.
Listen to a
news report.
Talk about how
to help people.
Talking about a
sequence of
pictures

Camels
Oral wh
comprehension Qs

Gap fill
sentences from
a diagram

A ___gives us____.
A ____ has____.
A ____ feeds on ___.

Song: A Cow
Named Dambi

For Those in Need

Oral wh
comprehension Qs

I will

Story: Daphney
Dolphin. Talking
about how
many in the
picture. Oral
maths puzzles.

The Horseshoe
Crab Fact file.
True or False
statements.

Board game,
writing
sentences from
notes.
Write sentences
from pictures
with single word
prompts
Free writing, a
note from an
endangered
sea creature.

Animals
Animal products
Animal body
parts.
Animal feed.
Flood,
belongings,
victims, donate,
save up
waste, heat, cool,
vapour, flow
Sea creatures:
dolphin, jellyfish,
seahorse, turle,
whale etc.

Make a
PowerPoint
presentation with
the heading
Keep Our Sea
Clean.

Friends
Chain reading.
Oral wh
comprehension Qs

The Water Cycle

True or False
statements

I must
We must
How many are left?
There are only X left.
Some comparatives
and superlatives:
bigger, oldest

Vocabulary

Language Arts

Making a money
box.
Poster on saving
water.

English KSSR (SK) Year 2 Textbook Contents

Unit

Phonics

Listening and
Speaking

Reading

Writing

Language
Structures

Vocabulary

Language Arts

Reuse, recycle,
Materials: glass,
plastic, paper,
aluminium.
Containers:
bottle, can, bag,
holder
Machine, factory.
Mermaid,
merman, to wish,
a wish, fairy,
sailor, breathe,
rich.

Song: Lets
Reuse
Make musical
instruments from
recycled object.

Feelings: happy,
sad, lonely,
proud, scared.

A play: Make Her

Happy, Red
Rose

16. Reuse,
Recycle.
The environment

e-e
i-e
Pete and
Mike

Talk about
recycling,
materials.
Listen to
dialogue Old
From New

Life of a Recycled
Can oral wh Qs.
Potential for
sequencing activity.

Diary entry, free

sentences on
what we can
make from
recycled paper.

We can make ____

from paper.
We can recycle paper
to make _______

17. Myths
Mythical
creatures and
wishes

o-e
u-e
A Phone
Call

Mermaid Tales
Oral wh
comprehension Qs

Free sentence
writing based
on a picture of a
mermarket

I wish I could ____

Can, cannot

18. Feeling
Happy, Feeling
Sad.

revision

Listen to a story
with dialogue:
Wishes
Talk about the
mermarket
picture.
Talk about
feelings &
colours
Listen to a story
with dialogue:
The Grey
Duckling

Make Her Happy

Identifying feeling
words by scanning
the text. Oral wh
comprehension Qs.

Acrostic poems
based on
colours

I feel _______

Make a wish
book.