English
Reading I Writing I Speaking & Listening
In English, students will extend their love of reading and writing through supported:
- Exposure to gradually more sophisticated and challenging texts.
- Development of greater fluency and expression when reading and speaking.
- Consolidation of decoding skills in reading and writing.
- Extension of comprehension skills, such as literal, inferential and applied knowledge.
- Further building students' phonics skills through differentiated, hands-on activities.
- Continued practice of reading and spelling the Magic 300 Words; targeting consistent and correct use of them when writing.
- Development of secretarial writing skills, including letter formation, finger spacing, and punctuation (e.g. knowing when to use capital letters, lowercase letters, full stops, exclamation and question marks).
- Questioning as to who, what, when, where, why, and how during class discussions and writing the recount and retell genres.
- Investigation of the structure and writing of narrative texts and retelling these by describing the characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.
- Exposure to historical non-fiction content and retelling these texts by describing the main ideas and key facts.
- Extension of vocabulary when writing and speaking.