Language - Year 1

Understand that people use different systems of communication to cater to different needs and purposes and that many people may use sign systems to co...

Understand that language is used in combination with other means of communication, for example facial expressions and gestures to interact with others

Understand that there are different ways of asking for information, making offers and giving commands

Understand that the purposes texts serve shape their structure in predictable ways

Understand patterns of repetition and contrast in simple texts

Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal sentences that make statements, ask ...

Understand concepts about print and screen, including how different types of texts are organised using page numbering, tables of content, headings and...

Identify the parts of a simple sentence that represent ‘What’s happening?’, ‘What state is being described?’, ‘Who...

Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjective...

Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning

Understand the use of vocabulary in everyday contexts as well as a growing number of school contexts, including appropriate use of formal and informal...

Recognise and know how to use simple grammatical morphemes to create word families

Manipulate phonemes in spoken words by addition, deletion and substitution of initial, medial and final phonemes to generate new words

Use short vowels, common long vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blends when writing, and blend these to read single syllable words

Understand that a letter can represent more than one sound and that a syllable must contain a vowel sound

Understand how to spell one and two syllable words with common letter patterns

Explore different ways of expressing emotions, including verbal, visual, body language and facial expressions

Use visual memory to read and write high-frequency words 

Segment consonant blends or clusters into separate phonemes at the beginnings and ends of one syllable words