English
In Semester 1, our focus in English will be on language, learning sounds, phonological awareness skills and listening and responding to texts
Language
- I can say a sentence
- I can count the words in a sentence
- I can write a sentence
- I can recognise how capital letters are used for names
Literature
- I can use drawing writing to give a responses to stories
- I can talk about characters in the text and how they are similar to me
- I can respond to stories and share feelings and thoughts about them
- I can talk about the different features of a story (characters, beginning, middle, end)
- I can copy rhymes, poems and songs
Literacy
- I can listen while others speak
- I can speak in an appropriate volume
- I can predict and summarise texts
Phonics and word knowledge
- I can recognise and name lower case letters
- I can recognise and name upper case letters
- I can write the letters with proper formation
- I can say (segment) the sounds in words
- I can blend sounds to say words
- I can identify vowel sounds
- I can read some high frequency words (Tricky Words)
- I can identify a written word
- I can say a word
- I can recognise rhyming words
- I can produce rhyming words
- I can break words into syllables
- I can break words into sounds
- I can identify the beginning sounds in words
- I can identify the end sounds in words
- I can recognise how capital letters and full stops signal the beginning and end of sentences
Learning with InitiaLit
The following information will give families an outline about InitiaLit in the Reception (Foundation) year and what is involved in reading.
Home Reading
Home reading is a very important part of our Literacy program. After we have learned the first 2 sets of sounds, home reading will commence. This will be in Term 2.
Until then, please keep reading the social stories sent home, library books and your own picture books daily. As we learn each sound, you will also have the opportunity to complete the handwriting pages in the diary at home for consolidation.
