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Year 1 english
In the Foundation year, children begin to connect sounds with letters, hear the separate sounds in spoken words and blend sounds together to read simple words. They learn that a sentence is a complete idea that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop. Shared stories, rhymes and conversations build a love of language, listening skills and the confidence to retell and talk about what they hear.
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Language
- What is a sentence?Full lesson · 20 minLearning that a sentence is a complete idea that starts with a capital letter, uses finger spaces between words and ends with a full stop.
- Speaking and listeningTopic outlineTaking turns in conversation, asking and answering simple questions and sharing ideas in clear spoken sentences.
Literature
Literacy
- Letter sounds and first soundsFull lesson · 20 minHearing the first sound in a spoken word and matching common sounds to the letters that represent them.
- Blending and segmenting simple wordsFull lesson · 20 minPushing sounds together to read short consonant–vowel–consonant words, and breaking spoken words into their sounds to spell them.
- High-frequency wordsTopic outlineLearning to read common words such as 'the', 'I', 'is' and 'to' quickly, including those with spellings that are not yet fully decodable.