Level 1
Outcomes
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Listening, Reading, and Viewing
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Processes and Strategies
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Acquire and begin to use sources of information, processes, and strategies to identify, form, and express ideas
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Has an awareness of the connections between oral, written, and visual language
Has an awareness of the connections between oral, written, and visual languagePlay Activities 137Examples
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Uses sources of information (meaning, structure, visual and grapho-phonic information) and prior knowledge to make sense of a range of texts
Uses sources of information (meaning, structure, visual and grapho-phonic information) and prior knowledge to make sense of a range of textsExamples
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Associates sounds with letter clusters as well as with individual letters
Associates sounds with letter clusters as well as with individual lettersPlay Activities 299Examples
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Has an awareness of the connections between oral, written, and visual language
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Acquire and begin to use sources of information, processes, and strategies to identify, form, and express ideas
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Language Features
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Recognise and begin to understand how language features are used for effect within and across texts
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Recognises a large bank of high-frequency and some topic-specific words
Recognises a large bank of high-frequency and some topic-specific wordsPlay Activities 262Examples
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Shows some knowledge of text conventions, such as: capital letters, full stops, and word order; volume and clarity; and simple symbols
Shows some knowledge of text conventions, such as: capital letters, full stops, and word order; volume and clarity; and simple symbolsExamples
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Recognises a large bank of high-frequency and some topic-specific words
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Recognise and begin to understand how language features are used for effect within and across texts
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Structure
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Recognise and begin to understand text structures
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Understands that the order and organisation of words, sentences, and images contribute to text meaning
Understands that the order and organisation of words, sentences, and images contribute to text meaningPlay Activities 164Examples
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Understands that the order and organisation of words, sentences, and images contribute to text meaning
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Recognise and begin to understand text structures
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Processes and Strategies
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Speaking, Writing, and Presenting
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Language Features
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Use language features, showing some recognition of their effects
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Spells some high-frequency words correctly and begins to use some common spelling patterns
Spells some high-frequency words correctly and begins to use some common spelling patternsPlay Activities 365Examples
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Begins to gain control of text conventions, such as: capital letters and full stops
Begins to gain control of text conventions, such as: capital letters and full stopsExamples
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Spells some high-frequency words correctly and begins to use some common spelling patterns
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Use language features, showing some recognition of their effects
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Structure
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Organise texts, using simple structures
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Uses knowledge of word and sentence order to communicate meaning in simple texts
Uses knowledge of word and sentence order to communicate meaning in simple textsExamples
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Uses knowledge of word and sentence order to communicate meaning in simple texts
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Organise texts, using simple structures
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Language Features