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The English curriculum is built around the three interrelated strands of language, literature and literacy. Teaching and learning programs should balance and integrate all three strands. Together, the strands focus on developing studentsâ knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating. Learning in English builds on concepts, skills and processes developed in earlier years, and teachers will revisit and strengthen these as needed.
In Year 1, students communicate with peers, teachers, known adults and students from other classes.
Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read, view and interpret spoken, written and multimodal texts designed to entertain and inform. These encompass traditional oral texts including Aboriginal stories, picture books, various types of stories, rhyming verse, poetry, non-fiction, film, dramatic performances and texts used by students as models for constructing their own texts.
The range of literary texts for Foundation to Year 10 comprises Australian literature, including the oral narrative traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, as well as the contemporary literature of these two cultural groups, and classic and contemporary world literature, including texts from and about Asia. Literary texts that support and extend Year 1 students as independent readers involve straightforward sequences of events and everyday happenings with recognisably realistic or imaginary characters. Informative texts present a small amount of new content about familiar topics of interest and topics being studied in other areas of the curriculum. These include decodable and predictable texts which present a small range of language features, including simple and compound sentences, some unfamiliar vocabulary, a small number of high-frequency words and words that need to be decoded phonically, as well as illustrations and diagrams that support the printed text.
Students create a variety of imaginative, informative and persuasive texts including recounts, procedures, performances, literary retellings and poetry.
(source: www.australiancurriculum.edu.au)
By the end of Year 1, students understand the different purposes of texts. They make connections to personal experience when explaining characters and main events in short texts. They identify that texts serve different purposes and that this affects how they are organised. They describe characters, settings and events in different types of literature.
Students read aloud, with developing fluency. They read short texts with some unfamiliar vocabulary, simple and compound sentences and supportive images. When reading, they use knowledge of the relationship between sounds and letters, high-frequency words, sentence boundary punctuation and directionality to make meaning. They recall key ideas and recognise literal and implied meaning in texts. They listen to others when taking part in conversations, using appropriate language features and interaction skills.
Students understand how characters in texts are developed and give reasons for personal preferences. They create texts that show understanding of the connection between writing, speech and images.
They create short texts for a small range of purposes. They interact in pair, group and class discussions, taking turns when responding. They make short presentations on familiar topics. When writing, students provide details about ideas or events, and details about the participants in those events. They accurately spell high-frequency words and words with regular spelling patterns. They use capital letters and full stops and form all upper- and lower-case letters correctly.
(source: www.australiancurriculum.edu.au)
Practise skills learnt in literacy with this Easter-themed grammar activity pack.
A chart to assist students when learning how to form letters.
A set of 26 A to Z handwriting sheets with upper and lower case letters and examples.
An activity to help encourage students to add more descriptive language into their sentence writing.
A set of 10 decodable text worksheets for early readers.
A fun reading comprehension activity in which students follow a set of instructions to create their own magic monster.
A template to use when exploring or planning a narrative story.
Handwriting sheets for each letter of the alphabet.
A set of one-pager worksheet versions of the texts from our Level 2 decodable readers.
A workbook packed with 50 grammar activities for younger years.
Ten themed handwriting sheets with your choice of fonts.
A 19 slide teaching presentation containing visual narrative writing prompts.
4 planning templates to use when writing an informative text.
A set of one-pager worksheet versions of the texts from our Level 4 decodable readers.
A set of one-pager worksheet versions of the texts from our Level 3 decodable readers
An 18 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching younger students about the structure and language features of personal recounts.
A set of 8 narrative text structure posters to add to your classroom narrative writing display.
A set of 6 posters explaining what nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, proper nouns and conjunctions are for the early years.
A checklist for students to use when proofreading and editing their narrative writing.
Inspire your students to write descriptively using our 20 daily descriptive writing prompts slide deck and graphic organiser.
Display this poster in your room as a visual reminder of the structure of a recount.
Develop students’ ability to segment and blend the sounds in CVCC words with this set of differentiated worksheets.
Help students learn the difference between nouns, verbs, and adjectives with this cut-and-paste sorting worksheet.
Word cards for constructing complex sentences.
A set of 10 decodable text worksheets for early readers.
A collection of 18 pre-handwriting skill sheets with a range of different techniques and themes.
A set of 20 editing passage task cards with answers.
Question prompts and a worksheet to use when asking questions before, during and after reading.
A set of one-pager worksheet versions of the texts from our Level 5 decodable readers.
A chart to assist students when learning how to form letters.