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England: Early Learning Goals: Communication, Language and Literacy

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	Listening to and reading a well known nursery rhyme and identifying the missing rhymes.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Reception, W1: To understand and be able to rhyme through: recognising, exploring and working with rhyming patterns e.g learning nursery rhymes; to re-read and recite stories and rhymes with predictable and repeated patterns; reading a wide range of traditional nursery rhymes. NLS Y1, T1: text level 6: to recite stories and rhymes with predictable and repeating patterns, extemporising on patterns orally by substituting words and phrases, extending patterns and playing with rhyme. ELG Listen to favourite nursery rhymes, stories and songs. Join in with repeated refrains, anticipating key events and important phrases.
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	Choosing the appropriate vowel to correctly spell simple CVC words.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: ELG Communication, Language and Literacy - hear and say initial and final sounds in words and short vowel sounds within words. NLS Reception: W2: reading letter(s) that represent(s) the sounds a-z; identifying and writing dominant phonemes in spoken words. Y1,T1: W3: From YR to practise and secure the ability to hear initial and final phonemes in CVC words e.g fit, mat, pan. W4: to discriminate and segment all three phonemes in CVC words. NC KS1: En2 Reading: 1a hear, identify, segment and blend phonemes in words. En3 Writing 4b use their knowledge of sound-symbol relationships and phonological patterns
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	Listening to and reading a well known nursery rhyme and identifying the missing rhymes.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: ELG Listen to favourite nursery rhymes, stories and songs. Join in with repeated refrains, anticipating key events and important phrases. NLS Reception, W1: To understand and be able to rhyme through: recognising, exploring and working with rhyming patterns e.g learning nursery rhymes; to re-read and recite stories and rhymes with predictable and repeated patterns; reading a wide range of traditional nursery rhymes. Y1, T1: text level 6: to recite stories, and rhymes with predictable and repeating patterns, extemporising on patterns orally by substituting words and phrases, extending patterns and playing with rhyme.
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	Matching pictures of everyday objects with the initial letter for each object's name.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: ELG Hear and say initial and final sounds in words, and short vowel sounds within words. NLS Reception: Word level 2: Knowledge of grapheme/ phoneme correspondences through hearing and identifying initial sounds in words. Word level 3: Sounding and naming each letter of the alphabet; Y1, T1: word level 2: to practice and secure alphabetic letter knowledge; word level 3: to practice and secure the ability to hear initial phonemes. NC KS1: Phonemic awareness and phonic knowledge b) Sound and name the letters of the alphabet.
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	Matching pictures of everyday objects with their corresponding words.		Add this to your personal activity list
	Learning objectives/outcomes: ELG Begin to recognise some familiar words. NLS Reception, W5: To read on sight a range of high frequency words. Y1, T1: word level 7: to read on sight high frequency words. NC KS1: Word recognition and graphic knowledge f) Read on sight high-frequency words and other familiar words.
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