Parents' guides for Year 2
Years 1–3Years 1 to 3: a family guide to the foundations
What Years 1, 2 and 3 are for: phonics, fluency, first times tables and fractions, what happens in June, and short ways to help at home.
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Year 1The Year 1 Phonics Screening Check: a guide for parents
What happens in the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check, why half the words are made up, what the result means and how to help your child read at home.
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Years R–9Reading at home: book ideas for every age
Book ideas from Reception to Year 9, including books that Oak's English lessons use, with simple ways to make reading at home a habit.
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Years 1–9The Spelling challenge: fifteen questions for your child's year
How the Spelling challenge picks fifteen questions from English spelling lessons, matched to your child's year, and how to use it at home.
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Years 1–6Times tables practice: ten quick questions and a map
Ten questions on a number pad, five seconds each (eight in Years 1 and 2), and a map of every fact from 1 × 1 to 12 × 12. How it prepares for the Year 4 check.
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Years 1–9Today's 10: a daily practice set built from your child's mistakes
How Today's 10 picks ten questions a day: earlier mistakes that are due again, weak topics and the rest of the year. How the streak works and how to use it at home.
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