English Learning Outcomes

In Term Four, the children are learning to:

 

English Skills

Pre Primary

 

• Recognise 100 high frequency words.

• Identify question marks, exclamation marks, bold print, full stops, speech marks and commas.

• Explain that full stops signal the end of a sentence.

• Sequence events and everyday happenings.

• Identify the title, author, word, letter, space and page.

• Discuss characters and main events in imaginative texts.

• Differentiate between fiction and non-fiction texts.

• Spell 50 high frequency words.

• Write one or more simple sentences to retell events and experiences.

 

 Year One

 

• Identify who, when, what, where and why in a sentence.

• Recognise and use morphemes in word families e.g. 'play', 'played' and 'playing'.

• Use nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives correctly in sentences.

• Use basic conjunctions, contractions and similes in their writing.

• Spell the first 150 high frequency words.

• Write recounts, procedures, narratives and persuasives, with neat writing and approximately one page in length.

• Use full stops, capital letters, question marks and exclamation marks appropriately.

• Apply basic proof reading and editing skills.

• Create texts with supporting images using word processing programs.