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AC9E1LA08

compare how images in different types of texts contribute to meaning

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Language in Year 1.

AC9E1LA01

understand how language, facial expressions and gestures are used to interact with others when asking for and providing information, making offers, exclaiming, requesting and giving commands

AC9E1LA02

explore language to provide reasons for likes, dislikes and preferences

AC9E1LA03

explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain

AC9E1LA04

explore how repetition, rhyme and rhythm create cohesion in simple poems, chants and songs

AC9E1LA05

understand how print and screen texts are organised using features such as page numbers, tables of content, headings and titles, navigation buttons, swipe screens, verbal commands, links and images

AC9E1LA06

understand that a simple sentence consists of a single independent clause representing a single event or idea

AC9E1LA07

understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)

AC9E1LA09

recognise the vocabulary of learning area topics

AC9E1LA10

understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for familiar proper nouns

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9E1LA08 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Year 1.

  1. Foundation YearAC9EFLA01explore how language is used differently at home and school depending on the relationships between people
  2. Foundation YearAC9EFLA02explore different ways of using language to express preferences, likes and dislikes
  3. Foundation YearAC9EFLA03understand that texts can take many forms such as signs, books and digital texts
  4. Foundation YearAC9EFLA04understand conventions of print and screen, including how books and simple digital texts are usually organised
  5. Foundation YearAC9EFLA05recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas
  6. Foundation YearAC9EFLA06recognise that sentences are made up of groups of words that work together in particular ways to make meaning
  7. Foundation YearAC9EFLA07explore the contribution of images and words to meaning in stories and informative texts
  8. Foundation YearAC9EFLA08recognise and develop awareness of vocabulary used in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school
  9. Foundation YearAC9EFLA09identify punctuation as a feature of written text different from letters; recognise that capital letters are used for names, and that capital letters also signal the beginning of sentences while punctuation marks signal the end
  10. Year 2AC9E2LA01investigate how interpersonal language choices vary depending on the context, including the different roles taken on in interactions
  11. Year 2AC9E2LA02explore how language can be used for appreciating texts and providing reasons for preferences
  12. Year 2AC9E2LA03identify how texts across the curriculum are organised differently and use language features depending on purposes
  13. Year 2AC9E2LA04understand how texts are made cohesive by using personal and possessive pronouns and by omitting words that can be inferred
  14. Year 2AC9E2LA05navigate print and screen texts using chapters, tables of contents, indexes, side-bar menus, drop-down menus or links
  15. Year 2AC9E2LA06understand that connections can be made between ideas by using a compound sentence with 2 or more independent clauses usually linked by a coordinating conjunction
  16. Year 2AC9E2LA07understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups
  17. Year 2AC9E2LA08understand that images add to or multiply the meanings of a text
  18. Year 2AC9E2LA09experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic
  19. Year 2AC9E2LA10recognise that capital letters are used in titles and commas are used to separate items in lists

Planning against AC9E1LA08?

Daily Work Pad reads codes like this one out of your forward plan and carries them onto your lessons and worksheets. The pilot is invite-only for now.