Key Stage 1 English (Ages 5-7)
Reading
The emphasis is on a wide range of strategies to make sense of their reading. Children are taught:
- to decode words using sounds and blends.
- to read familiar high frequency words in texts
- to develop comprehension skills
- to talk about the stories they read, identifying key elements including: title, author and illustrator.
Writing
This is linked very much to reading in that the two activities reinforce each other.
Children are taught to:
- form letters correctly
- use their knowledge of sounds and blends to build phonetic words
- begin to use high frequency irregular words in their writing
- independently string words together to form a sentence, using spaces between each word
- sequence sentences to form a short narrative
- use capital letters and full stops; recognise and begin to use question marks and exclamation marks
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