Start here · make something about YOUR topic
“Choose something you enjoy thinking about. Make one little story about it, or tell one useful detail.” Draw, write, type, tell, sign, or choose exact words for a scribe. One useful beginning works; keep it private if you wish. Over the fortnight, try a second kind of text on the same topic. A picture of an imagined room, a familiar toy, an invented creature or another child choice is enough. No object, actual game, title, purchase or listener is needed.
Adult preparation: choose an available response form; read the short source portion for today; select print against code actually taught locally. Materials gives a three-step setup. Rich sources are adult-read; they are not presumed independently decodable. Ten plans each offer 25 minutes, with 30 specific routes, 20 contexts, standalone home play and extensions.
What this fortnight adds
Days 21–25: make an own imagined event, compare narrative with information, find a stated clue and a defensible inference, link two complete ideas, then a held fresh turn. Days 26–30: organise information, build word families, make a useful second text, reread and choose an edit, then a different held fresh turn. The ordinary source pair is Story K and Text L, about an original paper-harbour drawing. Fictional events are inventions. Text L describes the actual saved graphic, not an actual harbour, paper trial or child activity.
There is substantial vocabulary and composition work even when none of the supplied print matches the school's taught point. Controlled practice and the optional offline print selector support a locally taught selection. It neither teaches a new pattern automatically nor establishes readiness. Word-part meaning and independent reading/spelling remain separate observations. Compound sentences use two independent clauses; “because” alone does not make that structure.
Assessment and scope
Keep fresh E/F and their print aids from ordinary practice until a first response. The separate teacher key, component rubric and next moves accept different justified creative choices. One component can be collected now and another in a further short sitting. Optional home play has no school-check prerequisite.
Actual oral text is useful oral composition; it is not written text. Exact adult scribing preserves child decisions and composition while adult spelling/physical writing are named. Drawing/directing can create an actual multimodal artefact; an unwritten proposal remains a plan. Adult reading supports source comprehension, not child independent decoding. An intended familiar reader can be imagined; an actual listener reply requires a real willing interaction. None is supplied.
This is a partial Year 2 teaching bank, not a whole-year, state, mastery, independent-handwriting or classroom-trial claim. Exact curriculum and achievement scope, source/rights, access alternatives and desk review accompany it. Current Queensland Year 2 / Years 1–2 documents are used; Prep documents do not map this pack. Other jurisdictions and school phonics/assessment decisions remain open.
Reproduce and check
Install Python with Pillow and pypdf, librsvg's rsvg-convert, Poppler and DejaVu Sans through your approved local setup. From the project root:
python products/curriculum-studio/content/year-2/english/term-1/weeks-05-06/verify_pack.py
python products/curriculum-studio/content/year-2/english/term-1/weeks-05-06/verify_negative_probes.py
python products/curriculum-studio/content/year-2/english/term-1/weeks-05-06/print/generate_print.py --check-reproduction
Default checks do not write authored files. Intentional generation takes a new external empty folder. Original teaching prose/art: CC BY 4.0; code: Apache-2.0; curriculum and upstream font retain their own attribution and terms. No browser interaction is necessary or included.