This workbook is designed to support multi-age classrooms (Kindergarten, Year 1, and Year 2) in exploring narrative structure, language features, and storytelling techniques through the NSW English Year B units. Each section includes five high-quality, differentiated worksheets per book, ensuring students are appropriately challenged at their level and aligned with Australian Curriculum V9.
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning
Form most lower-case and upper-case letters using learnt letter formations
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
Write words using unjoined lower-case and upper-case letters
Write words legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper-case and lower-case letters
Write legibly and with growing fluency using unjoined upper case and lower case letters
Write using unjoined lower case and upper case letters
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
Produce some lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations
Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently
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
Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies
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
Produces most lower case and upper case letters and uses digital technologies to construct texts
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
Sustains reading unseen texts with automaticity and prosody and self-corrects errors
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Produces all lower-case and upper-case letters to create texts
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies to spell taught familiar and high-frequency words when creating texts
Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences
Reads decodable texts aloud with automaticity
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 single-letter grapheme–phoneme correspondences and common digraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
Tracks written text from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and identifies visual and spatial features of print
Identifies, blends, segments and manipulates phonological units in spoken words as a strategy for reading and creating texts
Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults
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
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 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 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 understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently