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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L Blend Word Wall Vocabulary
Thirty-two L blend vocabulary cards for a word wall.
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Initial S Blend Cards
A resource to help students identify the S blend at the beginning of a word.
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Adver-relays Active Learning Game
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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Punctuation Poster
A cute punctuation poster to display in your classroom.
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Dolch Sight Word Bingo – Primer
Sixteen different bingo cards using the Primer Dolch Sight Words.
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Reading Detectives Posters and Banner
8 colourful reading detective posters and a banner to display in the classroom.
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Comprehension - Hare and The Tortoise
A fun script and set of questions to help students develop reading and comprehension strategies.
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Comprehension - Plums For Mrs Smith
A comprehension activity using a recount for lower grades.
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Phonics Flashcards and Progress Tracker - Scooter Theme
A set of CVC, CCVC and CVVC word flashcards in a scooter theme with an accompanying scooter ramp to track student progress.
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Str Blend Flashcards
Twelve flashcards showing str blend words and pictures.
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Initial R Blend Cards
A resource to help students identify the R blend at the beginning of a word.
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Missing Beginnings Worksheet
A worksheet to consolidate initial blend sounds.
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Spr & Spl Blend Flashcards
Fourteen flashcards showing spr and spl blend words and pictures.
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Squ Blend Flashcards
Nine flashcards showing squ blend words and pictures.
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Scr Blend Flashcards
Nine flashcards showing scr blend words and pictures.
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Sw Blend Flashcards
Thirteen flashcards showing sw blend words and pictures.
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St Blend Flashcards
Fourteen flashcards showing st blend words and pictures.
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L Blends Worksheet
A worksheet consolidating the initial L blend sound.
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Sp Blend Flashcards
Fourteen flashcards showing sp blend words and pictures.
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Sn Blend Flashcards
Thirteen flashcards showing sn blend words and pictures.
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Initial L Blend Cards
A resource to help students identify the L blend at the beginning of a word.
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Sl Blend Flashcards
Twelve flashcards showing sl blend words and pictures.
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Pl Blend Flashcards
Twelve flashcards showing pl blend words and pictures.
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Gl Blend Flashcards
Nine flashcards showing gl blend words and pictures.
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Fl Blend Flashcards
Thirteen flashcards showing fl blend words and pictures.
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Gr Blend Flashcards
Twenty flashcards showing gr blend words and pictures.
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Sc Blend Flashcards
Fourteen flashcards showing sc blend words and pictures.
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Br Blend Flashcards
Twenty-six flashcards showing br blend words and pictures.
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Dr Blend Flashcards
Eighteen flashcards showing dr blend words and pictures.
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Tr Blend Flashcards
Sixteen flashcards showing tr blend words and pictures.
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Sm Blend Flashcards
Nine flashcards showing sm blend words and pictures.
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Pr Blend Flashcards
Seventeen flashcards showing pr blend words and pictures.