Level 1 – Listening, reading, and viewing

Processes and strategies

Students will:

acquire and begin to use sources of information, processes, and strategies to identify, form, and express ideas.

Indicators

Selects and reads texts for enjoyment and personal fulfilment
Has an awareness of the connections between oral, written, and visual language
Uses sources of information (meaning, structure, visual, and grapho-phonic information) and prior knowledge to make sense of a range of texts
Associates sounds with letter clusters as well as with individual letters
Uses processing and some comprehension strategies with some confidence
Is developing the ability to think critically about texts
Begins to monitor, self-evaluate, and describe progress.

By using these processes and strategies when listening, reading, or viewing, students will:

Purposes and audiences

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Ideas

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Understands that personal experience can influence the meaning gained from texts
Makes meaning of texts by identifying ideas in some texts.

Language features

Recognise and begin to understand how language features are used for effect within and across texts.

Indicators

Begins to recognise that oral, written, and visual language features can be used for effect
Recognises a large bank of high-frequency and some topic-specific words
Shows some knowledge of the text conventions, such as capital letters, full stops, and word order; volume and clarity; and simple symbols.

Structure

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Understands that the order and organisation of words, sentences, and images contribute to text meaning
Recognises some text forms and some differences between them.

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