Year 1 English
Choose a unit below. Every green Live label marks a complete learning path with the same eight questions used in Worksheet, Practice and Test.
Elaborations are curriculum teaching examples. Coverage points show how many curriculum ideas guide the unit.
understand how language, facial expressions and gestures are used to interact with others when asking for and providing information, making offers, exclaiming, requesting and giving commands
explore language to provide reasons for likes, dislikes and preferences
explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
explore how repetition, rhyme and rhythm create cohesion in simple poems, chants and songs
understand how print and screen texts are organised using features such as page numbers, tables of content, headings and titles, navigation buttons, swipe screens, verbal commands, links and images
understand that a simple sentence consists of a single independent clause representing a single event or idea
understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)
compare how images in different types of texts contribute to meaning
recognise the vocabulary of learning area topics
understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for familiar proper nouns
discuss how language and images are used to create characters, settings and events in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors and illustrators
discuss literary texts and share responses by making connections with students’ own experiences
discuss plot, character and setting, which are features of stories
listen to and discuss poems, chants, rhymes and songs, and imitate and invent sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme
orally retell or adapt a familiar story using plot and characters, language features including vocabulary, and structure of a familiar text, through role-play, writing, drawing or digital tools
discuss different texts and identify some features that indicate their purposes
use interaction skills including turn-taking, speaking clearly, using active listening behaviours and responding to the contributions of others, and contributing ideas and questions
describe some similarities and differences between imaginative, informative and persuasive texts
read decodable and authentic texts using developing phonic knowledge, phrasing and fluency, and monitoring meaning using context and grammatical knowledge
use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures
create and re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount a real or imagined event, using grammatically correct simple sentences, some topic-specific vocabulary, sentence boundary punctuation and correct spelling of some one- and two-syllable words
create and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations on personal and learnt topics, which include an opening, middle and concluding statement; some topic-specific vocabulary and appropriate gesture, volume and pace
write words using unjoined lower-case and upper-case letters
segment words into separate phonemes (sounds) including consonant blends or clusters at the beginnings and ends of words (phonological awareness)
orally manipulate phonemes in spoken words by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words (phonological awareness)
use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs to write words, and blend these to read one- and two-syllable words
understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound
spell one- and two-syllable words with common letter patterns
read and write an increasing number of high-frequency words
recognise and know how to use grammatical morphemes to create word families