Children will be taught, depending on age and ability, to:
- Discriminate between the separate sounds in words.
- Sound and name the letters of the alphabet.
- Recognise that the same sounds may have different spellings and that the same spelling may describe different sounds.
- Orchestrate a full range of reading cues (phonic, graphic and contextual) in order to aid their reading and enable them to correct their own mistakes.
- Recite stories and rhymes with predictable and repeating patterns.
- Develop an interest in books, to read with enjoyment and to evaluate and justify their preferences.
- Read a variety of poems and compare and contrast their preferences.
- Re-enact stories in a variety of ways e.g. through role-play or using puppets.
- Develop their powers of imagination, inventiveness and critical awareness through reading and writing.
- Read non-fiction books and understand that the reader doesn’t need to go from the start to the finish, but simply select what is needed.
- Use a dictionary and thesaurus to understand alphabetical organisation and to gain an increasingly wider vocabulary.
- Have a suitable technical vocabulary through which to discuss their reading and writing.
- Understand from an early age that much of their writing will be read by other people and therefore needs to be accurate, legible and set out in an appropriate way.
- Hold a pencil correctly from the outset and to use correct letter formation.
- Plan, draft, revise and edit their own writing.
- Distinguish between and write in a range of genres.
- Have a good understanding of basic grammar.
