Year 2 Module 2 Week 1

Spelling
dancing trap around
remote monkey mouse
ship returned fluffy
ropes beach roar
bucket insult water

1. List the spelling words in alphabetical order.

1. 6. 11.

2. 7. 12.

3. 8. 13.

4. 9. 14.

5. 10. 15.

2. Pick four unfamiliar words and look them up in the dictionary.

a. __________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

b. __________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

c. __________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

d. __________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

1
Year 2 Module 2 Week 1

Vocabulary Skills
1. Use a word from the below to match a similar word below.

crazy knapsack plan cut cool

risky seaside foam shady agile

meadow calm pill point shortly

path rich equal rags ill

a. Trim ________________ k. Track ________________

b. Unsafe ________________ l. Field ________________

c. Nimble ________________ m. Sick ________________

d. Plot ________________ n. Prong ________________

e. Froth ________________ o. Serene ________________

f. Coast ________________ p. Wealthy ________________

g. Freeze ________________ q. Tablet ________________

h. Silly ________________ r. Soon ________________

i. Leafy ________________ s. Even ________________

j. Haversack ________________ t. Tatters ________________

2
Year 2 Module 2 Week 1

Reading Skills I
Complete the close passage by using the words below.

eyes match dancing that control and

soccer hear first rob dad on

Kel and Rob raced to the television after dinner. They both reached for the remote control.

Kel got it and pressed the channel to watch line dancing.

“Oh no!” moaned Rob, “Not line ________________again! I wanted to watch the big

________________match.”

“I got here ________________yelled Kel. He sat with his ________________staring at the

television. Rob grabbed the remote ________________and switched it on to the soccer

________________.

“Hey!” cried Kel, “I was watching ________________.” Both the boys forgot the television

________________started pushing each other around. Just then, Dad came in.

“What’s going ________________here?” asked Dad. The boys both tried to talk at once but

Dad could not ________________what they were saying. After listening to them,

________________sent them both to bed. The boys were unhappy. Kel hit Rob with his

pillow. ________________hit him back. Before long, both

boys were happily having a pillow fight.

That’s what families are like!

3
Year 2 Module 2 Week 1

Reading Skills II
Read the following extract.

It does not Pay to Tell Lies

In 1888, a sailing ship was caught in a storm near Sydney. A huge wave crashed over the
ship. The sailors only had time to jump into the sea before the ship sank. The crew’s pet
monkey also ended up in the water.

A dolphin swimming by offered to take the monkey to dry land on its back. On the way, the
dolphin asked the monkey, as a joke, if he knew Governor Philip. “Oh yes! I know him well.
He is a friend of mine,” replied the monkey.

The dolphin knew then that the monkey was a liar. It was a hundred years since Governor
Philip came to Sydney with the first fleet. The dolphin then dived below the ways and left the
monkey in the sea.

To tell lies is one way of ending up in deep water.

1. Use a word from the story to fill each space.

a. The ship was sailing near ________________.

b. What made the ship sink? A ________________.

c. What creature offered to save the monkey? ________________.

d. The monkey said Governor Philip was his ________________.

e. The dolphin did not like anyone who told ________________.

Comprehension

4
Year 2 Module 2 Week 1

Read the following passage and answer the questions.

The Lion and the Mouse

A mouse was running through the forest when it tripped over the paw of a lion. Waking up, the lion
grabbed the mouse then raised the small mouse to its mouth.

The mouse was terrified. “Please don’t eat me,” it begged.” One day I will repay you, if you spare
my life.”

This made the lion laugh and he let the mouse go.

The lion soon forgot the little mouse. He never thought he would see it again. But was caught in a
net by some hunters. They wanted to sell the lion to a circus. They made sure the lion could not
escape from their net while they went to get help.

The lion roared in anger. He struggled against the tight ropes.

The mouse heard the roars, and running to the spot saw the trapped lion. It gnawed through the
ropes before the hunter returned.

“You laugh at me, the other day,” said the little mouse, when they were safely away. ”And you did
not expect me to repay your kindness. Now you can see that even a little mouse can help a mighty
lion.”

1. What do you think would be another good title for this story?
The Circus The Greedy Lion
The Good Deed The Small Mouse

2. The hunters wanted to sell the lion to _________________________.

3. The lion expected the little mouse would help him

True False

4. Draw four pictures to how the order in which thing happened in the story.

5
 Year 2 Module 2 Week 1

1. 2.

3. 4.

6
Year 2 Module 2 Week 1

Grammar

Thinking Verbs
Thinking verbs are used to describe a mental activity rather than a physical
activity.
E.g. Think, Guess, Wish

1. Find mental activity words which are thinking verbs that begin with the letters
given below. You may need to use a dictionary to help you with these questions.

a. The letter f _______________________

b. The letter r _______________________

c. The letter w ______________________

d. The letter d ______________________

e. The letter p _______________________

f. The letter k _______________________

Adjectives
Adjectives are describing words which describe nouns.
E.g. Beautiful butterfly

2. Circle the adjectives in the text. You should find fifteen of them.

Our holiday house has thirty steps down to the beach. On warm, sunny days I pack my
old swimsuit, my favourite, striped towel, sandwiches and a cold drink into my bag. Then
I run down the steps and find a good spot on the warm sand.

7
Year 2 Module 2 Week 1

Idioms
Idioms are words or phrases which are used to describe something
indirectly.
E.g. As sick as a dog  means you are very ill.

Sometimes I like to build a huge sandcastle on our beach. My biggest sandcastle had
four levels and a wide moat. It was the best sandcastle I’ve ever made.

3. Complete each idiom by adding a word from the first line. Then add the correct
meaning of the idiom from the words below.

fire water bucket mud feather question winks haystack

propose marriage insult someone in trouble die

achievement hard to find start sleep take risk

a. A _____________ in your cap _________________________________

b. Kick the _____________ _________________________________

c. Pop the _____________ _________________________________

d. Sling _____________ _________________________________

e. Play with _____________ _________________________________

f. In hot _____________ _________________________________

g. Needle in a _____________ _________________________________

8
Year 2 Module 2 Week 1

h. Forty _____________ _________________________________

Writing

Write a recount telling about your best trip to the beach. When was it? Who was there?
What did you do? Why was it your best trip to the beach?

Title: The Best Trip to the Beach ever!

______________________________________________________________________
The

Beginning ______________________________________________________________________

When?
______________________________________________________________________
Where?

Who? ______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

The middle ______________________________________________________________________

Tell us the
______________________________________________________________________
things that
______________________________________________________________________
happened.

Put them in ______________________________________________________________________

the right
______________________________________________________________________
order.

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________
9
Year 2 Module 2 Week 1

The end ______________________________________________________________________

What
______________________________________________________________________
happened
______________________________________________________________________
in the end?

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

Draw and colour in a beach scene which has the following:

1. A lifesaver in a red swimsuit 7. Two flags

2. A tiny crab 8. Fluffy clouds
3. A tall girl in a big sunhat 9. beach bag
4. A lifesaver in a blue swimsuit 10. A flying seagull
5. Yellow sand 11. A small boy
6. A striped towel and a spotted

10
Year 2 Module 2 Week 1

11