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Language and Literacy: Key Stage 1: Reading

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Listening to and reading a well known nursery rhyme and identifying the missing rhymes.

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Learning objectives/outcomes:
Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening:
- Listening and Responding:Children should have the opportunities to listen and respond to a wide range of stories, songs, poems including audio tapes and writing of other children.
- Listening and Remembering: Children should have the opportunities to learn rhymes, number rhymes etc.
- Developing an awareness of sounds: Children should have opportunities to develop an awareness of rhyming words.
Key Stage 1: Reading
- Engaging with a range of texts which include stories, poems, songs, nursery rhymes, plays, picture books, information materials, environmental print, audio and audio-visual materials and discussing them with teacher and others.
- Reading and understanding a range of texts which can be read aloud, including those presented on CD-ROM, tape, radio or television, the internet and other sources.
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Choosing the appropriate vowel to correctly spell simple CVC words.

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Learning objectives/outcomes:
Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening
- Developing an Awareness of Sounds: Children have opportunities to develop an awareness of sounds within words, and short vowel sounds.
Key Stage 1:
- Reading: Recognising and noticing how words are constructed and spelled.
- Writing: Experimenting with words e.g word games, riddles and rhymes; Spelling correctly a range of familiar, important and regularly occuring words.
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Choosing the correct vowel(s) to correctly spell simple words which contain long vowel sounds.

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Learning objectives/outcomes:
Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening
- Developing an Awareness of Sounds: Children have opportunities to develop an awareness of sounds within words, and short vowel sounds.
Key Stage 1:
- Reading: Recognising and noticing how words are constructed and spelled.
- Writing: Experimenting with words e.g word games, riddles and rhymes; Spelling correctly a range of familiar, important and regularly occuring words.
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Recognising the difference between vowels and consonants in a fast paced game.

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Learning objectives/outcomes:
Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening
- Developing an Awareness of Sounds: Children should have opportunities to begin to develop an awareness of sounds within words, and short vowel sounds.
Key Stage 1: Reading
- Recognising and noticing how words are constructed and spelled.
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This activity is recommended for use with an interactive whiteboard

Listening to and reading a well known nursery rhyme and identifying the missing rhymes.

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Learning objectives/outcomes:
Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening:
- Listening & Responding:Children should have the opportunities to listen and respond to a wide range of stories, songs, poems including audio tapes and writing of other children.
- Listening & Remembering: Children should have the opportunities to learn rhymes, number rhymes etc.
- Developing an awareness of sounds: Children should have opportunities to develop an awareness of rhyming words.
Key Stage 1: Reading
- Engaging with a range of texts which include stories, poems, songs, nursery rhymes, plays, picture books, information materials, environmental print, audio and audio-visual materials and discussing them with teacher and others.
- Reading and understanding a range of texts which can be read aloud, inlcuding those presented on CD-ROM, tape, radio or television, the internet and other sources.
Additional informationClick for resources and information related to this activity...
This includes teaching suggestions, printable resources, an assessment sheet, offline versions of activities and additional details about the activity.


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Listen to a word, then choose the correct written version on the screen.

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Learning objectives/outcomes:
Key Stage 1: English: Reading: ...pupils should develop the activity to... b) build up a sight vocabulary
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Ordering names of different Atlantean characters in an alphabetical list.

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Learning objectives/outcomes:
Key Stage 1:
Reading
- Recognising and noticing how words are constructed and spelled.
- Making use of picture dictionaries, personal word banks, dictionaries, lists of contents and indexes, information books and data on computer for reading and writing purposes.
Writing
- Experimenting with words e.g word games, riddles and rhymes.
- Making use of names and order of the letters of the alphabet.
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Ordering names of imaginary potions in an alphabetical list.

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Learning objectives/outcomes:
Key Stage 1:
Reading:
- Recognising and noticing how words are constructed and spelled.
- Making use of picture dictionaries, personal word banks, dictionaries, lists of contents and indexes, information books and data on computer for reading and writing purposes.
Writing:
- Experimenting with words, e.g word games, riddles and rhymes.
- Making use of names and order of the letters of the alphabet.
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Matching pictures of everyday objects with the initial letter for each object's name.

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Learning objectives/outcomes:
Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening
- Developing an Awareness of Sounds: Children should have opportunities to begin to develop an awareness of sounds within words, and short vowel sounds.
Key Stage 1: Reading
- Recognising and noticing how words are constructed and spelled.
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Identifying, by reading and listening, the number of syllables (1, 2 or 3) in everyday words.

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Learning objectives/outcomes:
Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening: Developing an Awareness of Sounds:
- Become aware of the rhythm of words.
- Begin to break down 2/3 syllable words.
Key Stage 1: Reading
- Recognising and noticing how words are constructed and spelled.
- Building up a sight vocabulary.
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This activity is recommended for use with an interactive whiteboard


Recognising the number of syllables (1, 2 or 3) in everyday words.

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Learning objectives/outcomes:
Foundation Stage: Talking and Listening: Developing an Awareness of Sounds:
- Become aware of the rhythm of words.
- Begin to break down 2/3 syllable words.
Key Stage 1: Reading
- Recognising and noticing how words are constructed and spelled.
- Building up a sight vocabulary.
Additional informationClick for resources and information related to this activity...
This includes teaching suggestions, printable resources, an assessment sheet, offline versions of activities and additional details about the activity.


This activity is recommended for use with an interactive whiteboard

Matching pictures of everyday objects with their corresponding words.

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Learning objectives/outcomes:
Foundation Stage: Early Reading:
- Looking and Remembering: Children should have opportunities to take part in visual discrimination activities to distinguish things that are the same/different.
Key Stage 1: Reading
Building up a sight vocabulary.
Additional informationClick for resources and information related to this activity...
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