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Australian Curriculum v9 · English crosswalkYear 2 English · T1 W3–4 · Curriculum Crosswalk

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These are partial links to ten 25-minute lessons, not full content-description coverage, an achievement-standard judgment or a school-wide spelling order. Adult-read comprehension is not independent text-reading evidence.

Official source: ACARA curriculum workbook, retrieved 2026-09-29; workbook SHA-256 db446882d2c00cf7c085a03e250e2442fda6c44011fc114680c46c1dc7a822c3. Wording is exact apart from whitespace normalisation. The workbook source row is retained for audit.

Official code Workbook row Official level Official content description Evidence in this block and limit
AC9E2LA03 268 Year 2 identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes Days 13, 16 and 20 compare story/how-to/explanation structure; only a small sample of text purposes.
AC9E2LA05 278 Year 2 navigate print and screen texts using chapters, tables of contents, indexes, side-bar menus, drop-down menus or links Day 13 uses headings to locate a useful step; chapters, menus and indexes are not taught here.
AC9E2LA06 282 Year 2 understand that connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with 2 or more independent clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction Days 17–18 orally compose and edit linked independent ideas; a short starting opportunity.
AC9E2LA09 292 Year 2 experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic Days 12 and 18 compare a vague verb/reason with more precise topic words.
AC9E2LE02 307 Year 2 identify features of literary texts, such as characters and settings, and give reasons for personal preferences Day 11 names characters, setting and a preference with a reason after adult-read literature.
AC9E2LY02 327 Year 2 use interaction skills when engaging with topics, actively listening to others, receiving instructions and extending own ideas, speaking appropriately, expressing and responding to opinions, making statements, and giving instructions Paper-token partner directions and attentive revision occur on Days 11–15 and 19.
AC9E2LY03 333 Year 2 identify the purpose and audience of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts Day 13 identifies an information text's purpose and partner audience.
AC9E2LY05 339 Year 2 use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning Prediction, questioning, locating and monitoring meaning occur after adult read-aloud; not independent text decoding evidence.
AC9E2LY06 348 Year 2 create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words Days 12–15 compose/revise short directions; Days 18–20 compose an explanation. This samples the description, not all genres/features.
AC9E2LY07 355 Year 2 create, rehearse and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations for familiar audiences and purposes, using text structure appropriate to purpose and topic-specific vocabulary, and varying tone, volume and pace Day 19 rehearses and delivers a short explanation with pace/pointing for a familiar listener; supported modes recorded.
AC9E2LY10 365 Year 2 use phoneme–grapheme (sound–letter/s) matches, including vowel digraphs, less common long vowel patterns, consonant clusters and silent letters when reading and writing words of one or more syllables, including compound words Daily locally audited vowel-digraph word reading/writing; no universal sequence and no full range of listed patterns.

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