Use these charts to help guide students through descriptive writing or oral presentations, including Show and Tell. There is one chart for each of the senses: look, hear, touch, taste and smell.
Create and re-read to edit short written and/or multimodal texts to report on a topic, express an opinion or recount a real or imagined event, using grammatically correct simple sentences, some topic-specific vocabulary, sentence boundary punctuation and correct spelling of some one- and two-syllable words
Create and deliver short spoken texts to report ideas and events to peers, using features of voice such as appropriate volume
Create and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations on personal and learnt topics, which include an opening, middle and concluding statement; some topic-specific vocabulary and appropriate gesture, volume and pace
Create, rehearse and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations for familiar audiences and purposes, using text structure appropriate to purpose and topic-specific vocabulary, and varying tone, volume and pace
Create and edit short imaginative, informative and persuasive written and/or multimodal texts for familiar audiences, using text structure appropriate to purpose, simple and compound sentences, noun groups and verb groups, topic-specific vocabulary, simple punctuation and common 2-syllable words
Make short presentations using some introduced text structures and language, for example opening statements
Deliver short oral presentations to peers
Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams
Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics
Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose
Communicates with peers and known adults in informal and guided activities demonstrating emerging skills of group interaction
Composes texts using letters of consistent size and slope and uses digital technologies
Plans, composes and reviews a small range of simple texts for a variety of purposes on familiar topics for known readers and viewers
Recognises a range of purposes and audiences for spoken language and recognises organisational patterns and features of predictable spoken texts
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Uses a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style, and digital technology, including word-processing applications, when creating texts
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose
Sustains reading unseen texts with automaticity and prosody and self-corrects errors
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
Applies phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling words in a range of writing contexts
Make short presentations, speaking clearly and using appropriate voice and pace, and using some introduced text structures and language
Deliver short oral presentations to peers, using appropriate voice levels, articulation, body language, gestures and eye contact
Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements
Reread student's own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation
Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs
Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately, and using supportive props
Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose
Reread and edit text for spelling, sentence-boundary punctuation and text structure
Construct texts featuring print, visual and audio elements using software, including word processing programs