This activity encourages students to use their imagination to create their own special garden. Inspired by The Secret Sky Garden and Florette, students will describe and develop their garden through drawing, descriptive writing, and storytelling.
Write words legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper-case and lower-case letters
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Form most lower-case and upper-case letters using learnt letter formations
Write words using unjoined lower-case and upper-case letters
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Produce some lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
Write using unjoined lower case and upper case letters
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures
Write legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper case and lower case letters
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect
Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Understand that sounds in English are represented by upper- and lower-case letters that can be written using learned letter formation patterns for each case
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
Understand how to use learned formation patterns to represent sounds and write words using combinations of unjoined upper- and lower-case letters
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to analyse texts by drawing on growing knowledge of context, language and visual features and print and multimodal text structures
Write words and sentences legibly using upper- and lower-case letters that are applied with growing fluency using an appropriate pen/pencil grip and body position