Year 2 Writing Lessons

Explore Year 2 writing lessons organised by text type, including persuasive writing, instructions, recounts, information texts and story writing. Each section contains focused lessons to help pupils develop the sentence-level skills needed for each type of writing.

Instruction Writing

Adding Extra Details to Instructions

Ordering Instructions

Using ‘and’ to Join Instructions

Using Adverbs in Instructions

Writing Commands as Instructions

Writing the Opening to an Introduction

Non-Chronological Report Writing

Adverb Openers for a Non-Chronological Report

Question Openers for a Non-Chronological Report

Using ‘and’ to Join Facts

Using Adjectives to Describe

Using Because to Explain Facts

Writing a Non-Chronological Report Introduction

Writing Facts in the Present Tense

Persuasive Writing

Commands to Persuade

Rhetorical Questions to Persuade

Using Because to Persuade

Using Different Persuasive Sentence Openers

Using Positive Language to Persuade

Using You and Your to Persuade

Writing a Persuasive Introduction

Recount Writing

Using Time Order Words in a Recount

Using When to Add Detail

Writing Past Tense Sentences in a Recount

Sentence Openers

Adverb Sentence Openers

Sound Word Sentence Openers

When Openers

Where Openers

Writing a Narrative

Alliteration

Exaggeration to Describe

Adjectives to Write an Effective Description

Show Don’t Tell

Similes

Writing a Story Opening

Writing Specific Descriptions

Writing Effective Character Descriptions

Writing Effective Setting Descriptions

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