Year 1

Year 1 English

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• Use Previous Knowledge Or Background Informationusing picture clues to answer questions
• Listen To And Discuss Textsreading and discussing rhyming poems
• Grapheme Awarenessdigraphs and trigraphs phonics sounds
• Phonological Awarenessblending and segmenting sounds phonics
• Read Common Exception Wordscommon exception words year 1
• Read Words With Contractions And Apostrophescontractions and apostrophes
• Check Own Work For Sensechecking sentences make sense
• Spell Common Exception Wordsspelling tricky words year 1
• Spell The Days Of The Weekspelling days of the week
• Punctuate Sentencesfull stops question marks and exclamation marks
• Use Capital Letterscapital letters for names and I
• Use Grammatical Terminologyvowels and consonants word classes
• Read Aloudreading aloud with accuracy year 1
• Leave Spaces Between Wordsleaving spaces between words when writing
• Join Words And Use Joining Clausesjoining words and clauses using and
• Write Simple Dictated Sentenceslisten and write dictated sentences
• Sequence Sentencesputting sentences in the correct order
• Use Ing Ed Er And Estadding ing ed er and est to words
• Read Words Of More Than One Syllablecounting syllables in words
• Discuss Word Meaningswords with similar meanings synonyms
• Discuss Book Titles And Eventsfiction and non-fiction book titles
• Make Inferencesmaking inferences from pictures
• Spell Words Containing Phonemesadjacent consonants at start and end of words
• Name The Letters Of The Alphabetalphabetical order and the alphabet
• Distinguish Different Spellings Of Same Sounddifferent spellings for the same sound
• Add –S Or –Esadding s or es to make plurals
• Use The Prefix Unprefix un meaning not
• Make Inferencesmaking inferences using clues
• Make Predictionsmaking predictions from pictures and text
• Write Sentenceswriting simple and compound sentences
• Phonics Screening Testphonics screening check year 1