English in Year 1

Reading

· Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words

· Read high frequency words.

· Respond speedily with the correct sound to graphemes (letters or groups of letters) for all 40+ phonemes

· Re-read these books to build up their fluency and confidence in word reading.

· Read other words of more than one syllable that contain taught GPCs

· Develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding.

· Become very familiar with key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics

· Link what they read or hear read to their own experiences

· Understand both the books they can already read accurately and fluently and those they listen to

Spell words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught, common exception words, the days of the week
Name the letters of the alphabet
Understand which letters belong to which handwriting ‘families’ (i.e. letters that are formed in similar ways) and to practise these.

Write sentences by:

saying out loud what they are going to write about
composing a sentence orally before writing it
sequencing sentences to form short narratives
re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense
Begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark