Grade 2English Language

What your child actually learns this year

Every strand and every topic in the Grade 2 English Language curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.

1Listening and SpeakingOne topic: hearing sounds and words correctly and saying them back clearly, which is what the reading strand is built on.1 topic·60 questions

  • Pronunciation and Vocabulary

    40 skills
2ReadingThe largest share of the year's questions. Reading words without sounding every one out, and understanding what was read.2 topics·120 questions

  • Fluency

    28 skills

  • Comprehension

    33 skills
3Language UseFifteen topics: verbs, pronouns, plurals, tenses, adjectives, prepositions and the first comparatives.15 topics·60 questions

  • Verb 'to be' – Past Tense; Objective Pronouns – Plural

    2 skills

  • Verb 'to do' – Present and past form; Subjective Pronouns – Plural

    2 skills

  • Verbs 'to have'; Objective pronouns – plural

    1 skills

  • Simple Past Tense

    2 skills

  • Nouns: Plurals of irregular nouns

    2 skills

  • Tense: Past Continuous Tense

    2 skills

  • Conjunctions

    2 skills

  • Cardinal and ordinal numbers; Demonstratives – Plural (these, those)

    3 skills

  • Word Sets (gender sets for animals/people); Opposites

    2 skills

  • Prepositions

    2 skills

  • Regular comparative and superlative adjectives

    1 skills

  • Possessive Pronouns

    1 skills

  • Wh- questions

    2 skills

  • Adverbs of time

    2 skills

  • Imperatives (commands); Interjections of excitement/joy

    4 skills
4WritingTwelve topics, from handwriting and spelling and punctuation through to guided writing of the child's own.12 topics·60 questions

  • Handwriting: Descenders

    2 skills

  • Handwriting: Ascenders

    2 skills

  • Handwriting: Ascenders and descenders

    2 skills

  • Handwriting: Legibility and neatness

    3 skills

  • Spelling

    8 skills

  • Punctuation (The comma)

    2 skills

  • Punctuation (The exclamation mark)

    2 skills

  • Guided Writing: Vocabulary building

    2 skills

  • Guided Writing: Picture reading

    2 skills

  • Guided Writing: Sequencing words

    2 skills

  • Guided Writing

    3 skills

  • Guided Writing: Punctuation marks

    2 skills

Why you can take this page at face value

Straight from the KICD design

The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 2 English Language curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.

Nothing here is a sample

Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.

Marked by a machine, written by a person

Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.

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300 Grade 2 English Language questions in the bank, covering every topic on this page.