Foundation English Objectives

Foundation Stage (objectives in bold type are taken directly from the Early Learning Goals)

 

Children learn to:

Speak and listen for a wide range of purposes in different contexts

 

1.      Speaking

• enjoy listening to and using spoken and written language and readily turn to it in play and learning
• speak clearly and audibly with confidence and control and show awareness of the listener, for example by their use of conventions such as greetings, ‘please’ and ‘thank you’
• extend their vocabulary, exploring the meanings and sounds of new words

 

2.      Listening and Responding

• listen with enjoyment and respond to stories, songs and other music, rhymes and poems and make up their own stories, songs, rhymes and poems
• sustain attentive listening, responding to what they have heard by relevant comments, questions or actions

 

3.      Group discussion and interaction

• interact with others, negotiating plans and activities and taking turns in conversation
• use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events

 

4.      Drama

• use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences

 

Read a wide range of texts on screen and on paper

 

1. 5.            Word reading skills and strategies

• link sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet.
• explore and experiment with sounds, words and texts
• hear and say sounds in words in the order in which they occur
• blend letters to read CVC words and recognise common digraphs
• use their phonic knowledge to read simple regular words and make phonetically plausible attempts at longer or more complex words
• read a range of familiar and common words and simple sentences independently

 

6.   Understanding and interpreting texts

• know that print carries meaning and, in English, is read from left to right and top to bottom
• show an understanding of the elements of stories, such as main character, sequence of events, and openings, and how information can be found in non-fiction texts to answer questions about where, who, why and how
• retell narratives in the correct sequence, drawing on the language patterns of stories

 

1. 7.            Engaging with and responding to texts

• return to favourite books, songs, rhymes to be reread and enjoyed
• listen with enjoyment to stories, songs, rhymes and poems and sustains attentive listening
• show an understanding of the elements of stories, such as main character, sequence of events, and openings and how information can be found in non-fiction texts to answer questions about where, who, why and how
• use language and play to imagine and recreate roles and stories
• respond to stories, songs, rhymes and poems with relevant comments, questions or actions

 

Write a wide range of texts on paper and on screen

 

1. 8.      Creating and shaping texts

• attempt writing for various purposes, using features of different forms such as lists, stories and instructions

 

1. 9.      Text structure and organisation

• attempt writing for various purposes, using features of different forms such as lists, stories and instructions

 

1. 10.  Sentence structure and punctuation

• write their own names and other things such as labels and captions and begin to form simple sentences sometimes using punctuation

 

   11. Word structure and spelling

• link sounds to letters naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet
• hear and say sounds in words in the order in which they occur
• use their phonic knowledge to write simple regular words and make phonetically plausible attempts at more complex words

 

12. Presentation

• use a pencil and hold it effectively to form recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed