This book can help your child by providing a whole year of ready to go activities and support on key English topics which will be being taught in school from 2014. Did you know that your child in Year 2 will now need to; be able to distinguish between homophones and near-homophones (such as 'their', 'there' and 'they're'); write different types of sentences, such as statements, exclamations and commands; learn how to us an apostrophe for possession, for example John's.