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AC9EFLA08

recognise and develop awareness of vocabulary used in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school

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Taught alongside it

The rest of Language in Foundation Year.

AC9EFLA01

explore how language is used differently at home and school depending on the relationships between people

AC9EFLA02

explore different ways of using language to express preferences, likes and dislikes

AC9EFLA03

understand that texts can take many forms such as signs, books and digital texts

AC9EFLA04

understand conventions of print and screen, including how books and simple digital texts are usually organised

AC9EFLA05

recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas

AC9EFLA06

recognise that sentences are made up of groups of words that work together in particular ways to make meaning

AC9EFLA07

explore the contribution of images and words to meaning in stories and informative texts

AC9EFLA09

identify 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

The same idea, year by year

Where AC9EFLA08 comes from and where it goes, for a student working below or above Foundation Year.

  1. Year 1AC9E1LA01understand 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
  2. Year 1AC9E1LA02explore language to provide reasons for likes, dislikes and preferences
  3. Year 1AC9E1LA03explore how texts are organised according to their purpose, such as to recount, narrate, express opinion, inform, report and explain
  4. Year 1AC9E1LA04explore how repetition, rhyme and rhythm create cohesion in simple poems, chants and songs
  5. Year 1AC9E1LA05understand 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
  6. Year 1AC9E1LA06understand that a simple sentence consists of a single independent clause representing a single event or idea
  7. Year 1AC9E1LA07understand 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)
  8. Year 1AC9E1LA08compare how images in different types of texts contribute to meaning
  9. Year 1AC9E1LA09recognise the vocabulary of learning area topics
  10. Year 1AC9E1LA10understand that written language uses punctuation such as full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, and uses capital letters for familiar proper nouns

Planning against AC9EFLA08?

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.