Identifying Texts and Their Purposes

Hear and count syllables in spoken words, and recognize, produce, and match rhyming words.

Identify alliteration, break sentences into words, and blend, segment, and manipulate the individual sounds in single-syllable words.

Recognise upper- and lower-case letters A–F, match them, and say the most common sound each makes.

Recognise upper- and lower-case letters G–L, match them, and say the most common sound each makes.

Recognise upper- and lower-case letters M–R, match them, and say the most common sound each makes.

Recognise upper- and lower-case letters S–Z, match them, say their most common sounds, review all letters, and distinguish easily confused letters.

Understand how books and screens are organised, recognise different text types, and identify basic punctuation and capital letters.

Blend sounds to read simple consonant–vowel–consonant words with each short vowel sound.

Write CVC words by representing each sound with a letter, and apply CVC reading skills in matching, sentences, and word-building activities.

Read and write common high-frequency words quickly and accurately.

Use letter-sound knowledge to spell words and understand that words can be made of more than one meaningful part.

Understand that sentences express ideas and are made of words that work together.

Understand how images and words both contribute to meaning in stories and information texts.

Build vocabulary from familiar contexts and explore how language is used differently depending on who we are talking to.

Identify different types of stories and recognise their key elements, such as characters, events, and the beginning, middle, and end.

Experience stories from diverse authors and cultures, and learn to share thoughts, feelings, and personal connections about these stories.

Explore rhythms and sound patterns in poems, chants, and rhymes, and experiment with noticing and creating your own sound patterns.

Form lower-case and upper-case letters correctly and position them accurately on lines, distinguishing tall letters, small letters, and tails.

Participate in shared writing and editing of short texts with basic punctuation, and produce a finished short written text.

Retell familiar literary texts through play, performance, images or writing, and deliver short spoken texts to peers.

Identify familiar text types such as stories and information books and explain what each is for.

Read decodable and simple authentic texts using developing phonic knowledge and monitor meaning using context and grammar.

Use visualising, predicting, and connecting strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read.

Use summarising and questioning strategies to understand, discuss, and share the meaning of texts listened to, viewed or read.

Interact in informal and structured situations by listening while others speak and using features of voice including volume levels.