This has been created as an informative text for young students to read and recall facts about Japan. Students will practise fine motor skills in letter formation activities and colouring.
Understand that texts can take many forms such as signs, books and digital texts
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
Understand that texts can take many forms, can be very short (for example an exit sign) or quite long (for example an information book or a film) and that stories and informative texts have different purposes
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
Recognises some different purposes for writing and that own texts differ in various ways
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
Understands and responds to literature read to them
Tracks written text from left to right and from top to bottom of the page and identifies visual and spatial features of print
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
Understand that texts can take many forms, and that imaginative and informative texts have different purposes
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