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Year 1 Term 2

   

Word Level 1 to secure identification, spelling and reading of initial, final and medial letter sounds in simple words - MyWorld Activity

Word Level 2 to investigate, read and spell words ending in ff, ll, ss, ck, ng;
MyWorld Activity 

Word Level 3 to discriminate, read and spell words with initial consonant clusters: e.g. bl, cr, tr, str - Appendix list 3;
to discriminate, read and spell words with final consonant clusters, e.g. nd, lp, st;
to identify separate phonemes within words containing clusters in speech and writing;
to blend phonemes in words with clusters for reading;
to segment clusters into phonemes for spelling;

MyWorld Activity

Word Level 4&6 for guided reading to read on sight high frequency words specific to graded reading books matched to the abilities of reading groups;
to read on sight approximately 30 more high frequency words from Appendix list 1;
MyWorld Activity

Word Level 8 to investigate and learn spellings of words with 's' for plurals
Word Activity
Sentence Level 2 to use awareness of the grammar of a sentence to decipher new or unfamiliar words, e.g. predict text from the grammar, read on, leave a gap and re-read
Word Activity 1
Word Activity 2
Sentence Level 3 to predict words from preceding words in sentences and investigate the sorts of words that 'fit', suggesting appropriate alternatives, i.e. that make sense;
Word Activity
Sentence Level 4 to recognise full stops and capital letters when reading and understand how they affect the way a passage is read;
Word Activity
Sentence Level 5 to continue demarcating sentences in writing, ending a sentence with a full stop;
MyWorld Activity
Sentence Level 7 to use capital letters for the personal pronoun 'I' for names and for the start of a sentence.
Word Activity
Text Level 10 to identify and compare basic story elements, e.g. beginnings and endings in different stories;
Text Level 13 to substitute and extend patterns from reading through language play, e.g. by using same lines and introducing new words, extending rhyming or alliterative patterns, adding further rhyming words, lines;
Text Level 15 to build simple profiles of characters from stories read, describing characteristics, appearances, behaviour with pictures, single words, captions,words and sentences from texts
Text Level 20 to use simple dictionaries, and to understand their alphabetical organisation;
Text Level 22 to write labels for drawings and diagrams, e.g. growing beans, parts of the body;
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