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Communications, Language and Literacy

The communications, language and literacy curriculum will help the children to:

Enjoy listening to and using spoken and written language.
Explore and experiment with sounds, words and texts.
Listen with enjoyment to stories, songs and other music, rhymes and poems and make up their own.
Use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences.
Use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas feelings and events.
Sustain attentive listening and respond appropriately.
Interact with others, negotiate and take turns.
Extend their vocabulary, exploring the meaning and sounds of new words.
Retell narratives in correct sequence.
Speak clearly and audibly with confidence and show awareness of the listener.
Hear and say initial sounds in words and short vowel sounds within words.
Link sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet.
Read a range of familiar and common words and simple sentences independently.
Know that print carries meaning and is read from left to right and top to bottom.
Show and understanding of the elements of stories.
Attempt writing for various purposes, using features of different forms such as lists, stories and instructions.
Write their own names and other things such as labels and captions and begin to form simple sentences, sometimes using punctuation.
Use their phonetic knowledge to write simple regular words and make phonetically plausible attempts at more complex words.
Use a pencil and hold it effectively to form recognizable letters, most of which are correctly formed.