A year 2 reader can...

• talk about different stories with different themes and know what the themes are
• understand how authors use words to make stories funny, scary or real
• find information in non-fiction texts and decide if it is useful or not
• choose their own books and know what they like 
• talk about books and find examples in the text to support their opinions 
• read words with more than one syllable 
• read with increasing fluency and accuracy 
• self-correct when they read something wrong
• read aloud pausing at full stops, and changing voice for exclamation, question and speech marks 
• guess what might happen in the end of the story 
• know about non-fiction texts and know what the text will be about 
• talk about similarities and differences between books 
• skim quickly over texts to get an idea of what they are about 
• find words and phrases in books and explain what they mean 
• work out what an author means even if they haven't written it down