About / Supporting the curriculum / Year 1 literacy skills
Strand |
Objective |
|---|---|
| 1 Speaking | Retell stories, ordering events using story language |
| 2 Listening and responding | Listen with sustained concentration building new stores of words |
| 3 Group discussion and interaction | Take turns to speak, listen to others’ suggestions and talk about what they are going to do |
| 4 Drama | Explore familiar themes and characters through improvisation and role-play |
| 7 Understanding and interpreting texts | Recognise the main elements that shape different texts |
| 7 Understanding and interpreting texts | Explore the effect of patterns of language and repeated words and phrases |
| 9 Creating and shaping texts | Independently choose what to write about, plan and follow it through |
| 9 Creating and shaping texts | Use key features of narrative in their own writing |
| 9 Creating and shaping texts | Find and use new and interesting words and phrases, including story language |
| 9 Creating and shaping texts | Create short simple texts on paper and on screen that combine words with images and sounds |
| 11 Sentence structure and punctuation | Compose and write simple sentences independently to communicate meaning |
| 11 Sentence structure and punctuation | Use capital letters and full stops when punctuating simple sentences |
| 12 Presentation | Write with spaces between words accurately |
Links to the Department for Education and skills' Primary Framework for Literacy website: