Processes and strategies
Students will: Acquire and begin to use sources of information, processes, and strategies to identify, form, and express ideas.
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Has an awareness of the connections between oral, written, and visual language when creating texts;
Creates texts by using meaning, structure, visual and grapho-phonic sources of information, prior knowledge, and some processing strategies with some confidence;
Seeks feedback and makes changes to texts;
Is becoming reflective about the production of own texts;
Begins to monitor, self-evaluate, and describe progress.
- Provide opportunities for students to create texts using Easy Readers Worksheet #2 for:
- Is it Fun? and Yum, Yum, Yum (Short Vowels).
- Crazy Dreams and Have You Ever... (Consonant Blends).
- Charlie the Chatterbox and When I was One (Simple Digraphs).
- The Lonely Dragon, The Amazing Ape, Close Your Eyes, Five White Mice, Follow the Rules and Would You Like? (Long Vowels).
- A Fun Day at the Farm, The Awful Animal Zoo, The Sparkly Starfish, Chester the Clown, The Princess in the Tower and Rainbow Bay (Vowel/Consonant Digraphs).
- Looking at Books, Cool School, Beach or Pool?, Deep in the Jungle, Our House and What Did I Hear? (Vowel Digraphs).
- Inspire text creation using Storytime Worksheet #3 for The Billy Goats Gruff and The Three Little Pigs and Worksheet #4 for Little Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
- View the Specialised English Lessons How to Fix up Stories (Foundation Writing) and Check Your Writing (Years 1 & 2 Writing) to encourage students to reflect on own texts.
Purposes and audiences
Recognise how to shape texts for a purpose and an audience.
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Constructs texts that demonstrate some awareness of purpose and audience through appropriate choice of content, language, and text form;
Expects the texts they create to be understood, responded to, and appreciated by others;
Is developing and conveying personal voice where appropriate.
- Use the Teacher Activities for The Octopus (Puppet Plays) and Worksheet #4 for Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Storytime) to provide opportunities for students to construct their own texts demonstrating awareness of purpose and audience.
- Study the Specialised English Lessons How Are Texts Organised? (Years 1 & 2 Writing) to develop students’ understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.
Ideas
Form and express ideas on a range of topics.
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Forms and expresses simple ideas and information, usually drawing from personal experience and knowledge;
Begins to support ideas with some detail.
- Use the Specialised English Lessons Likes and Dislikes, Speaking in Front of a Group and How to Work in a Group (Foundation Oral Language) to provide opportunities for students to form and express simple ideas.
- View the following Specialised English Lessons (Years 1 & 2 Oral Language) to encourage students to form and express ideas:
- Talking to Others (formal and informal language)
- What Do You Think? (opinions)
- Types of Questions
- Learning to Speak to an Audience (oral reports)
- Working Together (group work)
Language features
Use language features, showing some recognition of their effects.
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Uses some oral, written, and visual language features to create meaning and effect;
- Study the Specialised English Lessons Characters in Stories (Foundation Writing) to inspire text creation using human and/or non-human characters.
- Use the following activities to provide students with opportunities to use oral, written and visual features to create meaning and effect:
- View Puppet Plays and use the Script Ideas for Puppet Plays (worksheets) for students to create their own puppet play.
- Rhyme Time Worksheets #2 for The Owl and the Pussycat and The Wind, and Worksheets #1 & #2 for The Rainbow.
Uses a range of high-frequency, topic-specific, and personal-content words to create meaning;
- View the Specialised English Lessons Word Brainstorm (Foundation Reading) to generate topic-specific words to create meaning.
- Use personal content words to complete the activity for the Specialised English Lessons Create a Digital Text (Years 1 & 2 Writing).
Spells some high-frequency words correctly and begins to use some common spelling patterns;
- Study the Specialised English Lessons Word Families (Foundation Writing) to assist students to recognise common spelling patterns.
- Use the Easy Readers and Junior Readers worksheets to assist students with developing their knowledge of common spelling patterns.
- Students practise their spelling skills using the Word Play and Word Search activities in Puzzle Palace.
Begins to use some strategies to self-correct and monitor spelling;
- Study the Specialised English Lessons Word Families (Foundation Writing) and Which Way is it Spelled? (Years 1 & 2 Writing) to assist students to develop their spelling strategies.
Writes most letters and number forms legibly when creating texts;
- Reinforce students’ knowledge of letter formation using the Learn the ABC modules.
- Students practise their handwriting skills by completing the Easy Readers, Junior Readers, Storytime and Timeless Tales worksheets and Task 2 from Specialised English Lessons What’s in a Story? (Years 1 & 2 Writing).
Begins to gain control of text conventions such as: capital letters and full stops; some basic grammatical conventions; volume, clarity, and tone; and simple symbols.
- Study the Specialised English Lessons How to Fix up Stories (Foundation Writing) Check Your Writing (Years 1 & 2 Writing) and to reinforce knowledge of text conventions.
- View the following Specialised English Lessons (Years 1 & 2 Writing) to build students’ knowledge of grammatical conventions:
- Explore nouns, verbs and adjectives using Storytime Worksheet 3 for Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Little Red Riding Hood; Junior Readers Worksheet #1 for The Silly Mouse (Imaginary Worlds) and Fun Facts About the Body (Fun Facts) and the Timeless Tales story Snow White.
Structure
Organise texts, using simple structures.
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Uses knowledge of word and sentence order to communicate meaning in simple texts;
- Develop students’ knowledge of capital letters and full stops using Specialised English Lessons How to Write Sentences (Foundation Writing).
- Study the Specialised English Lessons What is a Sentence? (Foundation Writing) to reinforce knowledge of word order in sentences.
- Promote awareness of the importance of sentence order in a story using Worksheet #2 of the Timeless Tales and the Wendy stories in Storytime.
Begins to sequence ideas and information;
- Explore the concept of text sequence using Activity #1 for The Sea Monster (Puppet Plays) and Worksheet #2 of the Timeless Tales and the Wendy stories in Storytime.
- Study the Specialised English Lessons How Are Texts Organised? (Years 1 & 2 Writing) to assist students to organise and sequence ideas and information according to text type.
Uses simple sentences with some variation in beginnings;
May attempt compound and complex sentences.
- Use the Specialised English Lessons Types of Sentences (Years 1 & 2 Writing) to develop students’ awareness of statements, questions and exclamations.
