What Primary 2 Students Learn

Common & Proper Nouns (P2)

Proper nouns (names, days, months); distinguishing common from proper

Singular & Plural Nouns (P2)

Regular (-s, -es, -ies) and irregular plurals (child/children, mouse/mice)

Countable & Uncountable Nouns (P2)

Early introduction: some water, many books, a bottle of milk

Collective Nouns (P2)

Early introduction: a group of, a team of, a class of

Gender (P2)

Common masculine/feminine pairs (boy/girl, man/woman, father/mother, king/queen)

Personal Pronouns (P2)

Choosing correct subject vs object pronoun in sentences

Possessive Pronouns (P2)

Possessive adjectives (my, your, his, her, our, their)

Reflexive Pronouns (P2)

Early introduction (myself, yourself, himself, herself)

Interrogative Pronouns (P2)

Early introduction (who, what, which as question words)

Indefinite Pronouns (P2)

Early introduction (someone, something, everyone, everything)

Articles (P2)

a vs an rules (vowel sounds: "an apple", "a uniform")

Demonstratives (P2)

Expanded use in sentences; "There is / There are" constructions

Quantifiers (P2)

some vs any; a few, a little; "some and any" in sentences

Interrogative Determiners (P2)

which, what, whose before nouns (which book, what colour, whose bag)

Basic Adjectives (P2)

Expanded describing words; adjective opposites (antonyms)

Comparative & Superlative (P2)

Basic -er/-est with common adjectives (big/bigger/biggest, tall/taller/tallest)

Adverbs of Manner, Time & Place (P2)

Introduction to basic adverbs

Action Verbs (P2)

More action verbs; choosing the right verb for the context

Auxiliary Verbs (P2)

do/does in questions and negatives; reinforcing is/am/are, has/have with varied subjects

Contractions (P2)

Recognising and expanding contractions correctly

Subject-Verb Agreement (P2)

Reinforced rules; singular subjects → singular verbs, plural → plural

Modal Verbs (P2)

Reinforcement of basic modals (can, cannot, may, must, should) in varied sentence contexts

Simple Present Tense (P2)

Reinforced with subject-verb agreement; using time clues

Simple Past Tense (P2)

Regular (-ed) and irregular verbs (knew, flew, lit); time markers

Simple Future Tense (P2)

Early introduction

Present Continuous Tense (P2)

am/is/are + verb-ing; actions happening now

Past Continuous Tense (P2)

Early introduction: was/were + verb-ing for ongoing past actions

Prepositions of Place (P2)

More prepositions of place; expanded contexts

Prepositions of Time (P2)

in (months), on (days), at (times)

Coordinating Conjunctions (P2)

and, but, or; "because" in short sentences (early exposure)

Simple Sentences (P2)

Constructing and expanding simple sentences by adding who, what, where, when

Sentence vs Phrase (P2)

Distinguishing complete sentences from phrases; identifying subject-verb structure

Sentence Types (P2)

Practice identifying statement, question, command

Question Formation (P2)

Yes/No questions; question words (who, what, where, when, why, how)

Short Answers (P2)

Correct short answers with am/is/are, has/have (Yes, I am / No, she is not)

End Punctuation (P2)

Choosing correct end punctuation for sentence type

Capital Letters (P2)

Names, days of the week, months

Commas (P2)

In lists (apples, oranges, and grapes)

Apostrophes (P2)

In contractions (don't, it's, can't)

Similes (P2)

Common similes: as brave as a lion, as quiet as a mouse, as busy as a bee

Idioms (P2)

Common everyday idioms: a piece of cake, raining cats and dogs, break the ice

Synonyms & Antonyms (P2)

Common word pairs (big/small, happy/sad); choosing synonyms in sentences