Phonics
Letter sounds
Initial/Ending sounds
Short vowels
Long vowels
Digraphs
Letter Blends
+ Sight words
Reading for Meaning
1.Read aloud from simple books independently.
2. Anticipate what happens next in a story.
3. Talk about events in a story and make simple inferences about characters and events to show understanding.
4. Recognise story elements, e.g. beginning, middle and end.
5. Retell stories, with some appropriate use of story language
6. Make links to own experiences.
7. Know the parts of a book, e.g. title page, contents.
8. Learn and recite simple poems. Learn about rhyme.
9. Read labels, lists, diagrams and captions to find information.
Writing
1.Print the English alphabet in upper- and lower-case letters.
2. Copy written information, following left-to-right and top-to-bottom progression.
3. Write personal information (e.g., name, address)
4. Complete sentence patterns
5. Add words to sentence openers to complete a thought.
6. Compose and write a simple sentence that makes sense
7. Write simple storybooks with sentences to caption pictures
8. Begin to use some formulaic language, e.g. Once upon a time
9.Use a capital letter and a period, question mark or exclamation mark.
10. Record answers to questions, e.g. as lists, charts
11.Sort ideas and information by using the five-W’s framework: who, what, when, where, why
12. Write a short recount of personally significant experiences
13. Write using simple steps in a procedure (recipe) and simple directions
Speaking
1.express needs to peers and the teacher
2. retell stories and recount personal experiences to the class
3. ask questions or explore solutions to problems in small-group and paired activities
4. share ideas and information that contribute to understanding in large and small groups
5. manipulate the sounds of language in songs, chants, and poems
6. stay on topic and speak to the point
7. use a logical framework such as a beginning, middle, and end sequence to retell a story read aloud by the teacher
8. use descriptive adjectives to clarify and add interest to a narrative
9. identify some non-verbal cues, including facial expression, gestures, and eye contact, and use them in oral communications
10. use one or more appropriate visual aids to support or enhance oral presentations
Listening
1. identify different listening sources (songs, chants, and poems)
2. enjoy and understand a story read aloud by the teacher
3. follow simple directions in large- and small-group settings
4. listen without interrupting and wait their turn to speak
5. show that they are paying attention and are interested by looking at the speaker, nodding, or asking relevant questions
6. ask questions to check understanding during and after listening
7. exchange ideas with a peer in a paired sharing or small group
8. use background knowledge, familiar word order, and context to make predictions about content or vocabulary before listening to an oral text
9. identify words or phrases that indicate whether an oral text is fact or fiction
10. create mental pictures while listening to a read aloud and draw or talk about what they visualized
11. use time-order words (first, then, next, finally, to retell a story they have heard)
12. restate information from a movie, including a topic statement and several supporting details
EFL Focus
Common action words (verbs)
Am, is, are
Common present simple forms [positive, negative, question] to give basic personal information.
Imperative forms of common verbs for basic commands and instructions
Naming words (nouns)
Common nouns, Proper nouns
A, an, the (articles before a noun)
Common present continuous forms [positive, negative, question] to talk about what is happening now.
Has/Have + noun to describe and ask about possessions.
Basic adverbs of place here, there, to say where things are.
can/can’t to describe ability
Me too’ to give short answers.
Telling sentence, Asking sentence, Surprising sentence
Basic prepositions of location and position to describe at, in, near, next to, on to describe where people and things are;
Prepositions of time: on, in to talk about days and time;
Pronouns (subject and object)
with to indicate accompaniment; for to indicate recipient.
would you like + noun, to enquire
lets + verb;
like + verb + ing to express likes and dislikes.
conjunction ‘and’ to link words and phrases.