English



__Stage 2 English Outcomes__

**__ Writing __** WS2.9 Drafts, revises, proofreads and publishes well structured texts that are more demanding in terms of topic, audience and written language features. WS2.10 Produces texts clearly, effectively and accurately, using the sentence structure, grammatical features and punctuation conventions of the text type. WS2.11 Uses knowledge of letter– sound correspondences, common letter patterns and a range of strategies to spell familiar and unfamiliar words. WS2.12 Uses joined letters when writing in NSW Foundation Style and demonstrates basic desktop publishing skills on the computer. WS2.13 Discusses how own texts are adjusted to relate to different readers, how they develop the subject matter and how they serve a wide variety of purposes. WS2.14 Discusses how own texts have been structured to achieve their purpose and the grammatical features characteristic of the various text types used.

**__ Reading __** RS2.5 Reads independently a wide range of texts on increasingly challenging topics and justifies own interpretation of ideas, information and events. RS2.6 Uses efficiently an integrated range of skills and strategies when reading and interpreting written texts. RS2.7 Discusses how writers relate to their readers in different ways, how they create a variety of worlds through language and how they use language to achieve a wide range of purposes. RS2.8 Discusses the text structure of a range of text types and those grammatical features that are characteristic of those text types.

**__ Talking and Listening __** TS2.1 Communicates in informal and formal classroom activities in school and social situations for an increasing range of purposes on a variety of topics across the curriculum. TS2.2 Interacts effectively in groups and pairs, adopting a range of roles, uses a variety of media and uses various listening strategies for different situations. TS2.3 Identifies the effect of purpose and audience on spoken texts and distinguishes between different varieties of English. TS2.4 Identifies common organisational patterns and some characteristic language features of a few types of predictable spoken texts.

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