English · Foundation

Explore how language is used differently at home and school depending on the relationships between people ACELA1428 Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes and dislikes ACELA1429

Understand that texts can take many forms, can be very short (for example an exit sign) or quite long (for example an information book or a film) and that stories and informative texts have different purposes ACELA1430 Understand that some language in written texts is unlike everyday spoken language ACELA1431 Understand that punctuation is a feature of written text different from letters; recognise how capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences ACELA1432 Understand concepts about print and screen, including how books, film and simple digital texts work, and know some features of print, for example directionality ACELA1433

Recognise that texts are made up of words and groups of words that make meaning ACELA1434 Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas ACELA1435 Understand the use of vocabulary in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school ACELA1437 Explore the different contribution of words and images to meaning in stories and informative texts ACELA1786

Understand how to use knowledge of letters and sounds including onset and rime to spell words ACELA1438 Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words ACELA1439 Recognise and name all upper and lower case letters (graphemes) and know the most common sound that each letter represents ACELA1440 Know how to read and write some high-frequency words and other familiar words ACELA1817 Understand that words are units of meaning and can be made of more than one meaningful part ACELA1818 Segment sentences into individual words and orally blend and segment onset and rime in single syllable spoken words, and isolate, blend and manipulate phonemes in single syllable words ACELA1819 Write consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words by representing some sounds with the appropriate letters, and blend sounds associated with letters when reading CVC words ACELA1820

Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences ACELT1575

Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators ACELT1577 Share feelings and thoughts about the events and characters in texts ACELT1783

Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text ACELT1578 Replicate the rhythms and sound patterns in stories, rhymes, songs and poems from a range of cultures ACELT1579 Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts, for example beginnings and endings of traditional texts and rhyme in poetry ACELT1785

Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images ACELT1580 Innovate on familiar texts through play ACELT1831

Identify some familiar texts and the contexts in which they are used ACELY1645

Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations ACELY1646 Deliver short oral presentations to peers ACELY1647 Use interaction skills including listening while others speak, using appropriate voice levels, articulation and body language, gestures and eye contact ACELY1784

Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts ACELY1648 Read decodable and predictable texts, practising phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge ACELY1649 Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently ACELY1650

Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge ACELY1651 Participate in shared editing of students’ own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops ACELY1652 Produce some lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations ACELY1653 Construct texts using software including word processing programs ACELY1654