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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.


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