Our nursery rhymes have been designed to be bright and colourful, whilst making it easy for teachers to focus on the identification of various features such as rhyming words, any alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds.
Students can listen to, read, recite, respond to, recognise rhythms and sound patterns and perform the actions to this rhyme.
Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words (phonological awareness)
Recognise different types of literary texts and identify features including events, characters, and beginnings and endings
Explore and replicate the rhythms and sound patterns of literary texts such as poems, rhymes and songs
Retell and adapt familiar literary texts through play, performance, images or writing
Recognise and generate rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
Replicate the rhythms and sound patterns in stories, rhymes, songs and poems from a range of cultures
Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images
Demonstrates developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend short, predictable texts on familiar topics in different media and technologies
Demonstrates emerging skills and knowledge of texts to read and view, and shows developing awareness of purpose, audience and subject matter
Thinks imaginatively and creatively about familiar topics, simple ideas and the basic features of texts when responding to and composing texts
Communicates with peers and known adults in informal and guided activities demonstrating emerging skills of group interaction
Identifies, blends, segments and manipulates phonological units in spoken words as a strategy for reading and creating texts
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults
Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect
Creates written texts that include at least 2 related ideas and correct simple sentences
Identify rhyming words, alliteration patterns, syllables and some sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
Identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text
Recognise some different types of literary texts and identify some characteristic features of literary texts
Replicate the rhythms and sound patterns in stories, rhymes, songs and poems from a range of cultures
Retell familiar literary texts through performance, use of illustrations and images