Literacy

Talking and Listening:

Attention Skills
• Listening to a wide range of stories, poems, songs and music.
• Following instructions.
• Identifying environmental sounds.
• Repeating familiar phrases/sound sequences.

Phonological Awareness
• Identifying and manipulating phonemes.
• Identifying words in phrases and sentences.

Social Use of Language
• Talking with adults and other pupils.
• Initiating and joining in conversations.
• Working in different groupings.

Language and Thinking.
• Naming, describing and sequencing.
• Sharing their thoughts, feelings and ideas with different audiences.
• Taking part/contributing to group oral language activities such as Attention Autism.

Extended Vocabulary
• Listening and responding to adults and peers.
• Attend Attention Autism sessions that introduce or generate vocabulary.

Reading:
• Listen to a range of stories, poems and non-fiction texts.
• Read with some independence.
• Use word structure to develop reading.
• Share a range of books with adults/other pupils;
• Sequence stories in reasonable detail using appropriate language.

Writing:
• Distinguish between drawing and writing.
• Talk about the ideas represented in their drawings.
• Use ICT to present and communicate their ideas.

World Around Us- On the farm

History: Technological change. Farmers used horses in the past, but now they use tractors
and modern-day machinery.

Science and Technology: Farm animal lifecycles and the terminology for male and female
animals and their offspring. For example, a female pig is a sow; a male is a boar and babies
are known as piglets.

Learning what each animal is being raised on a farm for. For example, a sheep provides wool.
A cow provides milk. A hen lays eggs.

Geography: Habitats- Where animals live on the farm. Ducks live in water; horses live in
stables; pigs live in styes...etc