LITERACY TARGETS FOR 2017/2018 (AUTUMN) CLASS: RECEPTION
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
- Reading three and four letter words audibly including words with long vowels and consonant blends.
- Reading simple sentences.
- Reading simple tricky words.
- Introduce the magic ‘e’
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
- Handwriting practice
- Spelling three and four letter words correctly including words with long vowels and consonant blends.
- Writing simple sentences using finger spaces and full stops.
- Matching and creating rhyming words
- Words and opposites
- Naming and describing words
- Correct use of 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
- Read a wide range of stories and develop questions to enhance children’s understanding.
- Retelling weekend events creating a particular focus for the week.
- Children imbibe the culture of a good listener
- Create opportunities for children to create a different ending for a story
- Children describing their favourite character/story setting
- Differentiating a fiction from nonfiction story with reasons
- Children speaking clearly and audibly using the right diction
- Focused Show and Tell to promote confidence and control
- Role play activities to develop children’s creative skills and confidence.
- Reciting poems
LITERACY TARGETS FOR 2016/2017 (SPRING) CLASS: RECEPTION
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 of challenging Autumn topics
Reading four and five letter words audibly including words with diagraph and alternative sounds
Reading simple sentences clearly.
Reading more tricky words.
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
- Handwriting practice continues
- Spelling four and five letter words correctly
- Spelling most Reception tricky words correctly
- Writing sentences using naming and describing words
- Using finger spaces and full stops correctly.
- Introduce question marks
- Introduce actions words
- Writing a variety of text including instructions
- Features of a book
- Matching and creating more rhyming words
- Introduce lists, labels and captions
- Correct use of 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 eventsthat have happened or are to happen in the future. They develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.
Focus Areas
- Read a wide range of stories and develop children’s comprehension skills
- Retelling weekend events creating a particular focus for the week.
- Make inferences and draw conclusions about stories heard.
- Retell stories sequentially and in detail.
- Children describing their favourite character/story setting/scene
- Children speaking clearly and audibly using the right diction
- Use increasingly complex vocabulary.
- Focused Show and Tell to promote confidence and control
- Role play activities to develop children’s creative skills and confidence.
- Reciting poems
- Project presentation (create opportunities for children to ask and answers questions)
LITERACY TARGETS FOR 2017/2018 ( SUMMER) CLASS: RECEPTION
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 of challenging Spring topics
- Reading more complex words with alternative sounds
- Reading a variety sentences and text clearly.
- Reading more tricky words.
- Answering simple comprehension questions
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
- Handwriting practice continues
- Spelling regular and irregular words correctly
- Spelling the 45 Reception words correctly
- Writing sentences using naming and describing words using a good sentence structure
- Writing a variety of text including instructions, information text, imaginary writings
- Writing a poem
- Making postcards and invitation cards
- Rhyming couplets
- Antonyms and synonyms
- Correct use of 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 sayand 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
- Read a wide range of stories and develop children’s comprehension skills
- Children describing their favourite character/story setting/scene
- Children speaking clearly and audibly using the right diction
- Make inferences and draw conclusions about stories heard.
- Retell stories sequentially and in detail.
- Focused Show and Tell to promote confidence and control
- Role play activities to develop children’s creative skills and confidence.
- Reciting poems
- Project presentation (create opportunities for children to ask and answers questions