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Highlighted objectives refer to early learning goals
Strand |
Objective |
|---|---|
| 1 Speaking | Use talk to organise, sequence and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings and events |
| 1 Speaking | Use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences |
| 1 Speaking | Extend their vocabulary, exploring meaning and the sounds of new words |
| 2 Listening and responding | Sustain attentive listening, responding to what they have heard by relevant comments, questions or actions |
| 3 Group discussion and interaction | Interact with others, negotiating plans and activities and taking turns in conversation |
| 4 Drama | Use language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences |
| 7 Understanding and interpreting texts | Show an understanding of the elements of stories such as main character, sequence of events, and openings, and how information can be found in non-fiction texts to answer questions about where, who, why and how |
| 7 Understanding and interpreting texts | Retell narratives in the correct sequence drawing on the language patterns of stories |
| 9 Creating and shaping texts | Attempt writing for various purposes, using features of different forms such as lists, stories and instructions |
| 10 Text structure and organisation | Attempt writing for various purposes, using features of different forms such as lists, stories and instructions |
Links to the Department for Education and skills' Primary Framework for Literacy website: