Year 1 english lesson plans (national curriculum)

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-001

listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-002

ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-003

use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-004

articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-005

give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-006

maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-007

use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-008

speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-009

participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play/improvisations and debates

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-010

gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s)

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-011

consider and evaluate different viewpoints, attending to and building on the contributions of others

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y16-012

select and use appropriate registers for effective communication

Taught across Years 1 to 6

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-001

apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-002

respond speedily with the correct sound to graphemes (letters or groups of letters) for all 40+ phonemes, including, where applicable, alternative sounds for graphemes

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-003

read accurately by blending sounds in unfamiliar words containing GPCs that have been taught

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-004

read common exception words, noting unusual correspondences between spelling and sound and where these occur in the word

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-005

read words containing taught GPCs and –s, –es, –ing, –ed, –er and –est endings

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-006

read other words of more than one syllable that contain taught GPCs

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-007

read words with contractions [for example, I’m, I’ll, we’ll], and understand that the apostrophe represents the omitted letter(s)

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-008

read books aloud, accurately, that are consistent with their developing phonic knowledge and that do not require them to use other strategies to work out words

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-009

reread these books to build up their fluency and confidence in word reading

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-010

develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by:

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-011

understand both the books they can already read accurately and fluently and those they listen to by:

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-012

participate in discussion about what is read to them, taking turns and listening to what others say

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-013

explain clearly their understanding of what is read to them

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-014

spell:

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-015

name the letters of the alphabet:

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-016

add prefixes and suffixes:

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-017

apply simple spelling rules and guidance, as listed in English appendix 1

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-018

write from memory simple sentences dictated by the teacher that include words using the GPCs and common exception words taught so far

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-019

sit correctly at a table, holding a pencil comfortably and correctly

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-020

begin to form lower-case letters in the correct direction, starting and finishing in the right place

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-021

form capital letters

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-022

form digits 0-9

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-023

understand which letters belong to which handwriting ‘families’ (ie letters that are formed in similar ways) and to practise these

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-024

write sentences by:

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-025

discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-026

read their writing aloud, clearly enough to be heard by their peers and the teacher

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-027

develop their understanding of the concepts set out in English appendix 2 by:

ENG-NC-EN-Y1-028

use the grammatical terminology in English English appendix 2 in discussing their writing