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Reading and Writing (Text focus)

  Text focus: interest in reading Text focus: reading comprehension Text focus
M4 Rti/M4.1 Show an interest in reading material

Rti/M4.2 Listen and respond to familiar sayings

Wt/M4.1 Understand that marks and symbols have meaning

Wt/M4.2 With support, record
  1. interests
  2. preferences


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  Text focus: interest in reading Text focus: reading comprehension Text focus
M5 Rti/M5.1 Choose and share a book or magazine with familiar other/s

Rti/M5.2 Select from a given choice of familiar
  • signs
  • symbols
  • images
linked to their personal vocabularies

Rti/M5.3 Listen to and follow simple story lines supported by:
  • signs
  • symbols
  • images


Wt/M5.1 Understand that
  • objects
  • signs
  • symbols
  • images
can convey meaning and intention

Wt/M5.2 With support, record by selecting appropriate
  • objects
  • signs
  • symbols
  • images
for use in personal writing, including, potentially, the use of ICT or other means of assistance

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  Text focus: interest in reading Text focus: reading comprehension Text focus
M6 Rti/M6.1 Choose magazines or books

Rti/M6.2 Use
  • words
  • signs
  • symbols
  • images
to understand written communication about
  1. events
  2. people


Rti/M6.3 Look at
  • objects
  • words
  • signs
  • symbols
  • images
while listening to and following short verbal accounts which are of interest to the learner

Rtc/M6.1 Communicate about familiar texts using
  • words
  • signs
  • symbols
  • images


Rtc/M6.2 Find and name key
  1. images
  2. characters
  3. events


Wt/M6.1 Understand, in contexts related to personal information, that particular
  • words
  • signs
  • symbols
have particular meanings

Wt/M6.2 With support, use
  • words
  • signs
  • symbols
  • images
to label given or chosen objects

  Text focus: interest in reading Text focus: reading comprehension Text focus
M7 Rti/M7.1 Demonstrate an interest in the activity of reading

Rti/M7.2 Express a preference in which reading material is to be used

Rti/M7.3 Understand that different reading materials have different
  1. purposes
  2. forms of presentation


Rtc/M7.1 Distinguish between
  1. print
  2. text
  3. symbols
  4. images


Rtc/M7.2 Listen to and follow narratives and other short texts such as e-mails, greeting cards

Rtc/M7.3 Predict in narratives and short texts
  • words
  • signs
  • symbols
  • images


Wt/M7.1 Understand that
  1. words
  2. signs
  3. symbols
can represent unfamiliar meanings including
  1. objects
  2. people
  3. places


Wt/M7.2 With support, use
  • words
  • signs
  • symbols
  • images
matching their meaning to
  1. objects
  2. people
  3. places


  Text focus: interest in reading Text focus: reading comprehension Text focus
M8 Rtc/M8.1 Understand that print conveys meaning

Rtc/M8.2 Understand and use the conventions of reading, following text from left to right and top to bottom, or as culturally appropriate

Rtc/M8.3 When working with texts which contain
  • words
  • signs
  • symbols
  • images
communicate about
  1. persons
  2. characters
  3. events
  4. objects
with which they have become familiar

Wt/M8.1 Understand that
  1. words
  2. signs
  3. symbols
  4. images
convey information

Wt/M8.2 Understand that written texts can have different purposes

Wt/M8.3 Understand the need to plan before writing, including the use of
  • words
  • signs
  • symbols
  • images


Wt/M8.4 Use in their supported writing
  • words and letters
  • signs
  • symbols
  • images
to communicate meaning for different simple purposes when writing short texts

N/A
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