LITERACY TARGETS FOR 2017/2018 (SPRING) CLASS: NURSERY
Early Learning Goals
Reading: Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words. They demonstrate an understanding when talking with others about what they have read.
Focus Area
- Enjoys story time and can retell stories in simple sentences
- Handles a book with care
- Identifies and names characters in a story
- Can describe a story setting
- Blends sounds to form words
- Reads two and three letter words with support
- Introduce some sight words ‘I, the, my
Writing: Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
Grammar
Focus Area
- Make marks and ascribe meanings to them
- Writes two and three letter words with support (Phonics Book 1, 2)
- Handwriting pratice
- Begin to hear sounds in words (initial, middle and ending sounds)
- Begins to write own name
- Naming words
- Words and opposites
- Describes objects using size, colour
Communication & Language
Listening and attention: Children listen attentively in a range of situations. They listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions. They give their attention to what others say and respond appropriately, while engaged in another activity.
Understanding: Children follow instructions involving several ideas or actions. They answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to stories or events
Speaking: Children express themselves effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs. They use past, present and future forms accurately when talking about events that have happened or are to happen in the future. They develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.
Focus Area
- Children listen to a wide range of stories
- Contribute to group discussions speaking clearly.
- Pay attention when another is speaking.
- Participate in Story Time and other group activities.
- Retell events from an experience.
- Follow simple instructions.
- Recite some rhymes/enjoy repetition.
- Retell a story in own words
- Focused Show and Tell to help children express themselves clearly and confidently with proper diction
- Role play activities to develop children’s creative skills and confidence.
LITERACY TARGETS FOR 2017/2018 (AUTUMN) CLASS: NURSERY
Early Learning Goals
Reading: Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words. They demonstrate an understanding when talking with others about what they have read.
Focus Areas
- Review challenging Autumn topics
- Reads some first word books clearly
- Read three letter words confidently.
- Begins to read words with consonant blends
- Reads more sight words
- Understand some features of a book
- Can confidently retell a story to a group
- Attempts to read simple sentences
- Recites most rhymes confidently pronouncing most words clearly
Writing: Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
Grammar
Focus Areas
- Emergent writing using letter sounds
- Writing two and three letter words correctly (Phonics Book 1 & 2)
- Introduce Phonics book 3 (sounds and words)
- Attempts writing words with consonant blends
- Attempts writing simple sentences using words of own choice
- Uses finger spaces in between words and full stops at the end of a sentence
- Focused weekend recounts
- Rhyming words
- Naming words
- Describing words
- Words and opposites
- Past and present tenses
Communication & Language
Listening and attention: Children listen attentively in a range of situations. They listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with re levant comments, questions or actions. They give their attention to what others say and respond appropriately, while engaged in another activity.
Understanding: Children follow instructions involving several ideas or actions. They answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to stories or events.
Speaking: Children express themselves effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs. They use past, present and future forms accurately when talking about events that have happened or are to happen in the future. They develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.
Focus Areas
- Children listen to a wide range of stories
- Speak clearly in sentences
- Pay attention while others are speaking for an increased time
- Shows an understanding of routines.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the speaker or an audience during presentations
- Ask relevant questions during class discussions
- Retell a story in sequence.
- Exploring new vocabularies learnt
- Recite learned rhymes and songs.
- Describe what is happening in a picture
- Describe a character or story setting
- Describe an event using proper tenses
- Focused weekend recounts
- Focused Show and Tell to help children express themselves
- Role play activities to develop children’s creative skills and confidence.
LITERACY TARGETS FOR 2018/2019 (SUMMER) CLASS:NURSERY
Early Learning Goals
Reading: Children read and understand simple sentences. They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately. They also read some common irregular words. They demonstrate an understanding when talking with others about what they have read.
Focus Areas
- Review challenging Spring topics
- Reads some first sentence books clearly (ORT )
- Read three and four letter words confidently including words with consonant blends
- Reads all the sight words learnt clearly
- Understand main features of a book
- Can confidently retell a story
- Reads simple sentences
- Recites most rhymes confidently pronouncing most words clearly
Writing: Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. They also write some irregular common words. They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others. Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
Grammar
Focus Areas
- Writing three and four letter words correctly (Phonics Book 1, 2 & 3)
- Reading words with consonant blends
- Introduce the 5 vowels
- Attempts writing simple sentences using words of own choice
- Uses finger spaces in between words and full stops at the end of a sentence
- Focused weekend recounts
- Rhyming words
- Naming words
- Describing words
- Words and opposites
- Past and present tenses
Communication & Language
Listening and attention: Children listen attentively in a range of situations. They listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions. They give their attention to what others say and respond appropriately, while engaged in another activity.
Understanding: Children follow instructions involving several ideas or actions. They answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to stories or events
Speaking: Children express themselves effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs. They use past, present and future forms accurately when talking about events that have happened or are to happen in the future. They develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.
Focus Areas
- Children begin to distinguish a fiction story from nonfiction
- Increased attention
- Understands who, where and what questions sentences.
- Ask simple how and why questions
- Uses new words learnt in communicating
- Retell a story in a variety of ways
- Recite learned rhymes and songs.
- Describe past events in correct tenses
- Speaking clearly and audibly
- Focused Show and Tell to help children express themselves confidently
- Role play activities to develop children’s creative skills and confidence.