Year 1
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 students' 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)
Achievement Standard
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing)
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.
Productive modes (speaking, writing and creating)
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)
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Word Study List - Suffixes
Introduce and explore common suffixes with this extensive list of words.
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Word Study List - Silent Letters
Introduce and explore words containing silent letters with this extensive list of words.
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Counting Syllables Sorting Activity - Birds
Save the baby birds by clapping and counting syllables in words with this syllable sorting activity.
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Which Sound? Worksheet - The Letter C
Practise identifying the different sounds made by the letter C with this printable two-page worksheet.
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Which Sound? Poster - The Letter C
Remind your students of the different sounds made by the letter C with this colourful classroom poster.
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Consonant Digraph Peg Cards
Explore consonant digraphs at the beginning and end of words with these hands-on peg cards.
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Word Chain Worksheet - Beginning L Blends
Manipulate the individual phonemes in words to create new ones with this differentiated word-building worksheet.
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Word Chain Worksheet - End -st Blends
Create word chains by manipulating the individual phonemes in words with this differentiated word-building worksheet.
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Magic E Words - Match-Up Activity
Explore words containing long vowel sounds created by the magic e.
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Final 'E' Sorting Activity
Practise final 'e' conventions with this set of 18 sorting cards.
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Building Sundaes with Vowel Teams (OA, OW, OE and EY)
Decode words with OA, OW, OE and EY long vowel teams by crafting cute desserts!
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Syllable Types – Single Syllable Interactive Activity
Identify types of syllables in single syllable words with this Google Slides Interactive activity.
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Persuasive Writing Bump It Up Wall – Year 1
A visual display for your classroom to help students ‘bump up’ their persuasive writing.
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Parts of Speech Word Search (Nouns and Verbs) – Worksheet
A word search where students find and categorise nouns and verbs.
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Character Profile Flip Book - Lower Primary
Explore story characters with this flipbook template for lower primary students.
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Comical Chronicle Worksheets – Year 3 – Set 2
A set of 10 ad-lib style stories for students to complete.
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Robot Hide and Seek – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a narrative from the Year 1 magazine (Issue 2).
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A True Champion – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a narrative from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 2).
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Wolfie: A Tell-all Interview – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a narrative from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 3).
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Splat! Active Game
An active game that allows students to test and build their vocabulary knowledge.
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Last One Standing Active Game
An active game that allows students to build their vocabulary knowledge.
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I Know That Word! Match-Up Activity
A vocabulary/labelling activity for younger students.
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Statement, Question, Command, Exclamation Flipbook
A template for students to use when learning about the four types of sentences.
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Word Walk Active Game
An active game that allows students to practise reading sight words.
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The Birthday Ride – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a narrative from the Year 1 magazine (Issue 3).
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Letter to the Editor (More Screen Time) – Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet for a magazine article from the Year 2 magazine (Issue 3).
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‘With’ Sight Word Little Book
A little book with activities for the word ‘with’.
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‘So’ Sight Word Little Book
A little book with activities for the word ‘so’.
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‘He’ Sight Word Little Book
A little book with activities for the word ‘he’.
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‘Her’ Sight Word Little Book
A little book with activities for the word ‘her’.
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‘Not’ Sight Word Little Book
A little book with activities for the word ‘not’.
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‘One’ Sight Word Little Book
A little book with activities for the word ‘one’.