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Ages 7 to 9
Issue 65 May 2009
Northern Ireland Curriculum –
Language and Literacy requirement coverage
Resource Talking and Listening Reading Writing
On-screen 1
My brother...
by Paul Cookson
(Performance
poetry)
On-screen 2
Rivers Glossary
Game
by Paula and
Tony Richardson
(Glossaries)
Poster 1
Two great
rivers
by Dawn Roper
(Information text)
KS1 – Participate in talking and listening. Listen/respond to poems
and recreate parts of them. Listen/respond to instructions. Take
turns at talking/listening. Express opinions about texts. Speak
audibly and clearly, using appropriate quality of speech/voice and
read aloud. Talk about features of spoken language – eg, rhyming
words.
KS2 – Listen/respond to poetry through a digital resource.
Participate in group/class discussion. Use reason to justify opinions.
Use appropriate quality of speech/voice, varying register according
to audience/purpose. To read aloud, inflecting appropriately to
emphasise meaning.
KS1 – Participate in talking and listening. Recreate/interpret them.
Listen/respond to instructions. Express opinions about texts.
KS2 – Participate in group/class discussion. Share/respond to
ideas and use evidence to justify opinions. Read aloud. Respond to
guidance and instructions.
KS1 – Participate in talking and listening. Express thoughts,
feelings, opinions. Present ideas/information with some structure/
sequence. Devise and ask questions to find information. Read aloud
from a variety of sources, including own work.
KS2 – Participate in discussion. Share/respond to ideas and
use evidence to justify opinions. Describe/talk about people,
places. Prepare short oral presentations. Read aloud, inflecting
appropriately.
KS1 – Be read to from wide selection of poetry via a digital text.
Use comprehension skills to interpret/discuss text. Understand
how texts are structured. Express opinions/give reasons based on
reading/offer evidence. Talk about ways language is written down
– identify words/phrases/patterns.
KS2 – Participate in shared reading of a digital text. Represent
understanding of a text. Consider/discuss a text. Explore how
language can be manipulated to affect the reader/engage attention.
Justify responses. Read aloud from prepared texts, including own.
KS1 – Participate in modelled/shared/paired/guided reading. Read/
be read to from wide selection of stories via a digital text. Read/
explore a digital text with some independence. Use comprehension
skills to interpret/discuss text. Understand how texts are structured.
Express opinions/give reasons. Build a sight vocabulary. Recognise
how words are constructed/spelled.
KS2 – Participate in modelled/shared/paired/guided reading of a
digital text. Represent understanding of a text. Consider/discuss a
text. Explore how language can be manipulated.
KS1 – Participate in modelled/shared/paired/guided reading. Read
with some independence for information. Use comprehension skills
to interpret/discuss text. Understand how texts are structured.
Express opinions/give reasons based on reading/offer evidence.
Build sight vocabulary. Use range of strategies to identify unfamiliar
words. Talk about ways language is written down.
KS2 – Participate in modelled/shared/paired/guided reading. Make
use of information. Represent understanding of a text. Consider/
discuss a text. Justify responses by reference to text. Communicate
information relevant for a task. Use variety of reading skills for
different purposes.
KS1 – Participate in shared, modelled, independent writing.
Investigate/experiment with language. Talk about what they are
going to write. Understand some differences between spoken/
written language. Use variety of skills to spell words. Convey
meaning using words and phrases and simple sentences.
KS2 – Participate in shared, modelled, guided, independent writing.
Experiment with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure, word play. Write
for variety of purposes/audiences, selecting, planning and using
appropriate style/form. Plan, revise, redraft. Use variety of skills to
spell words.
KS1 – Participate in modelled, guided, independent writing.
Understand and use a range of vocabulary. Investigate language.
Use variety of skills to spell words. Convey meaning using words
and phrases and simple sentences.
KS2 – Participate in modelled, guided, independent writing. Write
for variety of purposes/audiences, using appropriate style/form. Use
variety of skills to spell words.
KS1 – Participate in independent writing. Understand and use a
range of vocabulary. Make decisions about form/content. Organise,
structure, present ideas. Use variety of skills to spell words.
KS2 – Participate in independent writing. Organise/present ideas.
Use variety of skills to spell words.
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Northern Ireland Curriculum –
Language and Literacy requirement coverage
Resource Talking and Listening Reading Writing
Poster 2
Why is flooding
on the increase?
by David Clayton
(Explanation text)
Leaflet 1
Krishna and
Kaliya
by Shantha Rao
(Traditional tale)
Leaflet 2
Rivers of
rhymes
by various poets
(Poems in
different forms on
a theme)
KS1 – Participate in talking and listening. Express thoughts,
feelings, opinions. Present ideas/information with some structure/
sequence. Devise and ask questions to find information. Read aloud
from a variety of sources, including own work.
KS2 – Participate in discussion. Share/respond to ideas and
use evidence to justify opinions. Describe/talk about people,
places. Prepare short oral presentations. Read aloud, inflecting
appropriately.
KS1 – Participate in talking and listening. Listen/respond to stories.
Recreate/retell/interpret them. Tell own stories. Take part in drama
activities. Express opinions about texts. Speak audibly and clearly,
using appropriate quality of speech/voice and read aloud. Talk about
features of spoken language. Read aloud from a variety of sources,
including own work.
KS2 – Listen/respond to fiction. Tell/retell/interpret stories. Group/
class discussion. Share/respond to ideas and use evidence to justify
opinions. Participate in drama activities. Use appropriate quality
of speech/voice, varying register according to audience/purpose.
Read aloud, inflecting appropriately, to emphasise meaning of texts.
KS1 – Participate in talking and listening. Listen/respond to/explore
poems and recreate parts of them. Express thoughts, feelings,
opinions about texts. Speak audibly and clearly, using appropriate
quality of speech/voice and read aloud. Talk about features of
spoken language – eg, rhyming words.
KS2 – Listen/respond to poetry. Participate in group/class
discussion. Use reason to justify opinions. Use appropriate quality
of speech/voice, varying register according to audience/purpose.
Read aloud, inflecting appropriately to emphasise meaning and
express thoughts and feelings.
KS1 – Participate in modelled/shared/paired/guided reading. Read
with some independence for information. Use comprehension skills
to interpret/discuss text. Understand how texts are structured.
Express opinions/give reasons based on reading/offer evidence.
Build sight vocabulary. Use range of strategies to identify unfamiliar
words. Talk about ways language is written down.
KS2 – Participate in modelled/shared/paired/guided reading. Make
use of information. Represent understanding of a text. Consider/
discuss a text. Justify responses by reference to text. Communicate
information relevant for a task. Use variety of reading skills for
different purposes.
KS1 – Participate in modelled/shared/paired/guided reading.
Read/be read to from wide selection of stories. Act out a text.
Read/explore a text with some independence. Use comprehension
skills to interpret/discuss text. Understand how texts are structured.
Express opinions/give reasons based on reading/offer evidence.
How language is written down – identify words/phrases/patterns.
KS2 – Participate in modelled/shared/paired/guided reading of a
text. Represent understanding of a text. Consider/discuss a text.
Explore how language can be manipulated to affect the reader/
engage attention. Justify responses. Read aloud from prepared
texts, including own.
KS1 – Participate in modelled/paired/guided reading. Be read
to from wide selection of poetry. Use comprehension skills to
interpret/discuss text. Understand how texts are structured. Express
opinions/give reasons based on reading/offer evidence. Read/share
own books of poems. Build sight vocabulary. Use strategies to
identify unfamiliar words. Talk about ways language is written down
– identify words/phrases/patterns.
KS2 – Participate in guided reading. Represent understanding of
a text. Consider/discuss a text. Develop preferences. Explore how
language can be manipulated to affect the reader/engage attention.
Justify responses. Read aloud from prepared texts, including own.
KS1 – Participate in independent writing. Understand and use a
range of vocabulary. Make decisions about form/content. Organise,
structure, present ideas. Use variety of skills to spell words.
KS2 – Participate in independent writing. Organise/present ideas.
Use variety of skills to spell words.
KS1 – Participate in shared, modelled, guided, independent writing.
Investigate/experiment with language. Talk about what they are
going to write. Understand some differences between spoken/
written language. Use variety of skills to spell words. Convey
meaning using words and phrases and simple sentences.
KS2 – Participate in shared, modelled, guided, paired, independent
writing. Write for variety of purposes/audiences, selecting, planning
and using appropriate style/form. Use stylistic features to create
mood/effect. Plan, revise, redraft. Use variety of skills to spell words.
KS1 – Participate in modelled, independent writing. Investigate/
experiment with language. Talk about what they are going to write.
Express thoughts and feelings. Use variety of skills to spell words.
Convey meaning using words and phrases and simple sentences.
KS2 – Participate in modelled, guided, independent writing.
Experiment with rhymes, rhythms, verse structure, word play. Write
for variety of purposes/audiences, selecting, planning and using
appropriate style/form. Plan, revise, redraft. Use variety of skills to
spell words.
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