Focus outcomes for English Stage 1
Learning to Read — Reading and Viewing Texts
RS1.5 Reads a wider range of texts on less familiar topics with increasing independence and understanding, making connections between own knowledge and experience and information in texts.
Shared, Guided and Independent Reading
- draws on own knowledge to interpret characters and events in literary texts related to personal experiences
- speculates on the behaviour of characters in stories and discusses own behaviour in similar situations
- participates in class/group brainstorming activities to cluster and categorise ideas and facts following the reading of texts
Responding to Texts
- assesses role of visual images accompanying written text, eg in providing additional information or introducing new information
Subject Matter
- begins to read texts about less familiar topics.
Learning to Write – Producing Texts
WS1.9 Plans, reviews and produces a small range of simple literary and factual texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers.
Joint and Independent Writing
- uses a framework to make notes, eg matrix, flowchart, semantic map
- writes elementary descriptions of familiar people and things
- writes short recounts of personal experience
- expresses an opinion in writing
- contributes to joint construction of texts
Audience
- reads own writing to the teacher or to a peer
Subject Matter
- uses heading to indicate topic of text
Channel of Communication
- uses drawings to accompany texts where relevant
- contributes to jointly constructed class email messages.
Learning to Write – Skills and Strategies
WS1.10 Produces texts using the basic grammatical features and punctuation conventions of the text type.
Grammar and Punctuation
- uses adjectives to provide more information about nouns
- uses creative word play in the writing of literary texts.
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