EN1-4A
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
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Recognise grammatical patterns to enhance comprehension, eg action verbs, words or groups of words that tell who, what, when, where and how
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Understand that nouns represent people, places, things and ideas and can be, for example, common, proper, concrete or abstract, and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives (ACELA1468)
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Identify the parts of a simple sentence that represent 'What's happening?', 'Who or what is involved?' and the surrounding circumstances (ACELA1451)
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Understand how sentence punctuation is used to enhance meaning and fluency
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Identify word families and word origins to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words, eg base words, rhyming words and synonyms
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Recognise sound-letter matches including common vowel and consonant digraphs and consonant blends (ACELA1458)
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Understand the variability of sound-letter matches (ACELA1459)
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Recognise most sound-letter matches including silent letters, vowel/consonant digraphs and many less common sound-letter combinations (ACELA1474)
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Automatically recognise irregular high-frequency words, eg 'come' and 'are'
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Use phonological, graphological, syntactic and semantic cues to decode and make meaning from written texts, eg using an increasing repertoire of high-frequency and sight words, segmenting words into syllables
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Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures (ACELY1660, ACELY1670)
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Use background knowledge of a topic to make inferences about the ideas in a text
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Predict author intent, series of events and possible endings in an imaginative, informative and persuasive text
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Identify visual representations of characters' actions, reactions, speech and thought processes in narratives, and consider how these images add to or contradict or multiply the meaning of accompanying words (ACELA1469)
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