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AC9EFLA01
Explore how language is used differently at home and school depending on the relationships between people
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AC9EFLA02
Explore different ways of using language to express preferences, likes and dislikes
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AC9EFLA03
Understand that texts can take many forms such as signs, books and digital texts
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AC9EFLA04
Understand conventions of print and screen, including how books and simple digital texts are usually organised
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AC9EFLA05
Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas
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AC9EFLA06
Recognise that sentences are made up of groups of words that work together in particular ways to make meaning
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AC9EFLA07
Explore the contribution of images and words to meaning in stories and informative texts
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AC9EFLA08
Recognise and develop awareness of vocabulary used in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school
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AC9EFLA09
Identify punctuation as a feature of written text different from letters
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Explore how language is used differently at home and school depending on the relationships between people

Explore different ways of using language to express preferences, likes and dislikes

Understand that texts can take many forms such as signs, books and digital texts

Understand conventions of print and screen, including how books and simple digital texts are usually organised

Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas

Recognise that sentences are made up of groups of words that work together in particular ways to make meaning

Explore the contribution of images and words to meaning in stories and informative texts

Recognise and develop awareness of vocabulary used in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school

Identify punctuation as a feature of written text different from letters

Share ideas about stories, poems and images in literature, reflecting on experiences that are similar or different to their own

Respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about their events and characters

Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings

Explore and replicate the rhythms and sound patterns of literary texts such as poems, rhymes and songs

Retell and adapt familiar literary texts through play, performance, images or writing

Identify some familiar texts, such as stories and informative texts, and their purpose

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

Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts

Read decodable and authentic texts using developing phonic knowledge, and monitor meaning using context and emerging grammatical knowledge

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently

Create and participate in shared editing of short written texts

Create and deliver short spoken texts to report ideas and events to peers, using features of voice such as appropriate volume

Form most lower-case and upper-case letters using learnt letter formations

Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (phonological awareness)

Segment sentences into individual words; orally blend and segment single-syllable spoken words; isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes in single-syllable words (phonological awareness)

Recognise and name all upper- and lower-case letters (graphs) and know the most common sound that each letter represents

Write consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words by representing sounds with the appropriate letters, and blend sounds associated with letters when reading CVC words

Use knowledge of letters and sounds to spell words

Read and write some high-frequency words and other familiar words

Understand that words are units of meaning and can be made of more than one meaningful part

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