Year 1 Literacy

Term I

Term II

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Topic/Subtopic

Contents/Descriptor

Stories with repetitive language

(17 hours)

·         Explore and recognize parts of a book including cover, title and contents.

·         Identify the most common letters associated with each sound in English language.

·         Listen and respond appropriately to sequences of simple instructions and engage in imaginative play.

·         Learn to speak audibly and clearly.

Simple rhyming poems

 (15 hours)

-Explore sounds and words in texts and use phonics knowledge to read decodable words.

-Use vocabulary relevant to a familiar topic and begin to write simple stories and poems, including using the structures of ones they have read.

·         -Show understanding of rhymes and repetition which join in with reading familiar simple stories and poems.

Recounts of personal experiences

(16 hours)

·         Choose plausible graphemes to write simple, regular words and make attempts at others.

·         Identify and blend sounds represented by more than one letter.

·         Talk about the events for example what happened in the beginning, middle and end of a story.

·         Understanding of opinions of others and asking simple questions about what was heard or read

Traditional tales

 (18 hours)

·         Identify main characters in the story and talk about what happens to them.

·         Characteristics of simple stories.

·         Make inferences based on events in texts and anticipate what happens next in a story.

·         Retelling familiar stories by captioning pictures and plan their writing by speaking aloud.

·         Use of capital letters in writing and pause at full stops when reading aloud.

Traditional rhymes.

 (16 hours)

·         Reading and hearing a range of sample stories, poems and non- fiction texts

·         Understanding of rhythm, rhyme and repetition while reading familiar poems.

·         Explore the use of “and” in sentences and use it to join words and clauses.

·         Write simple sentences and re-read sentences aloud with some fluency and expression.

Poems on similar themes

 (14 hours)

·         Read simple texts independently and spell familiar words accurately.

·         Respond to questions about texts with some explanations of their thinking.

·         Suggest how someone’s non-verbal communication reflects their feelings.

Instructions

(19 hours)

·         Explore and recognize the features of text structure in a range of different fiction and non-fiction text.

·         Read verbs with endings -s, -ed, and -ing.

Term III

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Stories with familiar settings

(18 hours)

·         Identify how contexts and events in stories are the same as or different from real life, making links to their own experiences and expressing likes and dislikes.

·         Explore explicit and implicit meanings in simple texts.

·         Use phonics knowledge to sound out some elements of un familiar words and ask for support in spelling them.

·         Explore the grammar of statements and examples of nouns and verbs in texts.

·         Taking turns in speaking, expressing own feelings and ideas, and talking about own activities, including what they enjoyed.

Information texts.

 (17 hours)

·         Explore a range of simple non-fiction text types.

·         Identify and record interesting and significant words from texts to inform their own writing.

·         Explore and recognise how texts are different and begin to write for purpose using basic language and features appropriate for a text type.

·         Use simple organizational features appropriate for the text type, record different people’s answers to simple questions about texts and present texts in a range of different ways.