Year 1 English Objectives

Year 1

 

Children learn to:

 

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

1.      Speaking

• tell stories and describe incidents from their own experience in an audible voice
• retell stories, ordering events using story language
• interpret a text by reading aloud with some variety in pace and emphasis

 

2.      Listening and Responding

• listen with sustained concentration
• listen to and follow instructions accurately, asking for help and clarification if necessary
• listen to tapes or video and express views about how a story or information has been presented

 

3.      Group discussion and interaction

• take turns to speak, listen to others’ suggestions and talk about what they are going to do
• ask and answer questions, make relevant contributions, offer suggestions and take turns
• explain their views to others in small group, decide how to report the group’s views to the class

 

4.      Drama

• explore familiar themes and characters through improvisation and role play
• act out own and well-known stories, using voices for characters
• discuss why they like a performance

 

Read a wide range of texts on screen and on paper

5.         Word reading skills and strategies

• read words by blending adjacent consonants, including simple two-syllable words
• use phonics to read unknown or difficult words
• recognise all common digraphs and trigraphs
• read automatically high frequency words
• use syntax and context to self-correct when reading for accuracy and meaning

 

6.         Understanding and interpreting texts

• identify the main events and characters in stories, and find specific information in simple texts
• make predictions showing an understanding of ideas, events and characters
• recognise the main elements that shape different texts
• explain the effect of patterns of language and repeated words and phrases

 

7.         Engaging with and responding to texts

• select books for personal reading and give reasons for choices
• visualise and comment on events, characters and ideas, making imaginative links to own experiences
• distinguish story and information books and the different purposes for reading them

 

 

Write a wide range of texts on paper and on screen

8.   Creating and shaping texts

• independently choose what to write about, plan and follow it through
• use key features of narrative in their own writing
• convey information and ideas in simple non-narrative forms
• find and use new and interesting words and phrases, including ‘story language’
• create short simple texts on paper and on screen which combine words with images (and sounds)

 

9.   Text structure and organisation

• write chronological and non-chronological texts using simple structures

• group written sentences together in chunks of meaning or subject

 

10. Sentence structure and punctuation

• compose and write simple sentences independently to communicate meaning
• use capital letters and full stops when punctuating simple sentences

 

11. Word structure and spelling

• segment sounds in order to spell longer words including words with common digraphs and adjacent consonants
• write correct spelling for common vowel phonemes
• use knowledge of related words and familiar suffixes in spelling new words

 

12. Presentation

• write most letters, correctly formed and orientated
• write with spaces between words accurately
• use the space bar and keyboard to type name and simple text