English · Year 1

Understand that people use different systems of communication to cater to different needs and purposes and that many people may use sign systems to communicate with others ACELA1443 Understand that language is used in combination with other means of communication, for example facial expressions and gestures to interact with others ACELA1444 Understand that there are different ways of asking for information, making offers and giving commands ACELA1446 Explore different ways of expressing emotions, including verbal, visual, body language and facial expressions ACELA1787

Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways ACELA1447 Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts ACELA1448 Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands ACELA1449 Understand concepts about print and screen, including how different types of texts are organised using page numbering, tables of content, headings and titles, navigation buttons, bars and links ACELA1450

Identify the parts of a simple sentence that represent ‘What’s happening?’, ‘What state is being described?’, ‘Who or what is involved?’ and the surrounding circumstances ACELA1451 Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) ACELA1452 Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning ACELA1453 Understand the use of vocabulary in everyday contexts as well as a growing number of school contexts, including appropriate use of formal and informal terms of address in different contexts ACELA1454

Recognise and know how to use simple grammatical morphemes to create word families ACELA1455 Manipulate phonemes in spoken words by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words ACELA1457 Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blends when writing, and blend these to read single syllable words ACELA1458 Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound ACELA1459 Understand how to spell one and two syllable words with common letter patterns ACELA1778 Use visual memory to read and write high-frequency words. ACELA1821 Segment consonant blends or clusters into separate phonemes at the beginnings and ends of one syllable words ACELA1822

Discuss how authors create characters using language and images ACELT1581

Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students' own experiences ACELT1582 Express preferences for specific texts and authors and listen to the opinions of others ACELT1583

Discuss features of plot, character and setting in different types of literature and explore some features of characters in different texts ACELT1584 Listen to, recite and perform poems, chants, rhymes and songs, imitating and inventing sound patterns including alliteration and rhyme ACELT1585

Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication ACELT1586 Innovate on familiar texts by using similar characters, repetitive patterns or vocabulary ACELT1832

Respond to texts drawn from a range of cultures and experiences ACELY1655

Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening behaviours, showing interest, and contributing ideas, information and questions ACELY1656 Make short presentations using some introduced text structures and language, for example opening statements ACELY1657 Use interaction skills including turn-taking, recognising the contributions of others, speaking clearly and using appropriate volume and pace ACELY1788

Describe some differences between imaginative informative and persuasive texts ACELY1658 Read decodable and predictable texts using developing phrasing, fluency, contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge and emerging text processing strategies, for example prediction, monitoring meaning and re-reading ACELY1659 Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features ACELY1660

Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams ACELY1661 Re-read student’s own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation ACELY1662 Write using unjoined lower case and upper case letters ACELY1663 Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs ACELY1664