Outcome

• Ascribes meanings to marks that they see in different places.
• Gives meaning to marks they make as they draw, write and paint.
• Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no longer using whole-hand grasp.
• Begins to use anticlockwise movement and retrace vertical lines.

Outcome

• Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall.
• Beginning to use more complex sentences to link thoughts (e.g. using and, because)
• Remembers and talks about significant events in their own experience.
• Recognises and describes special times or events for family or friends.
• Knows some of the things that make them unique, and can talk about some of the similarities and differences in relation to friends or family.
• Comments and asks questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place where they live or the natural world.
• Using gestures to support meaning in play
• To use talk in play to practice new vocabulary

Outcome

• Shows awareness of rhyme and alliteration.
• Recognises rhythm in spoken words.
• Listens to and joins in with stories and poems, one-to-one and also in small groups.
• Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall.
• Describes main story settings, events and principal characters.
• Recognises familiar words and signs such as own name and advertising logos.
• Looks at books independently.
• Handles books carefully/ holding book correctly.
• Knows information can be relayed in the form of print.

Outcome

• Continues a rhyming string (Writing objective but not writing)
• Hears and says the initial sound in words.
• Begins to break the flow of speech into words.
• Holds pencil near point between first two fingers and thumb and uses it with good control.
• Shows a preference for a dominant hand.
• Can copy some letters, e.g. letters from their name.

Outcome

• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.
• Beginning to understand ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions. Uses a range of tenses (e.g. play, playing, will play, played).
• Questions why things happen and gives explanations.
• Asks e.g. who, what, when, how
• Shows interest in the lives of people who are familiar to them.
• Enjoys joining in with family customs and routines.
• Uses available resources to create props to support role-play.
• Using gestures to support meaning in play
• To use talk in play to practice new vocabulary

Outcome

• Shows awareness of rhyme and alliteration.
• Knows that print carries meaning and, in English, is read from left to right and top to bottom.
• Continues a rhyming string.
• Hears and says the initial sound in words.

Outcome

• Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together.
• Uses some clearly identifiable letters to communicate meaning, representing some sounds correctly and in sequence.
• Begins to form recognisable letters.

Outcome

• Children talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members.
• Shows interest in different occupations and ways of life
• Create simple representations of events, people and objects.
• To look at someone who is speaking to them
• To take turns to speak when working in a group

Outcome

• Suggests how the story might end
• Can segment the sounds in simple words and blend them together and knows which letters represent some of them.

Outcome

• Links sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet.
• Writes own name and other things such as labels, captions.
• Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds.
• They also write some irregular common words
• Attempts to write short sentences in meaningful contexts.

Outcome

• Able to follow a story without pictures or props.
• To look at someone who is speaking to them
• To take turns to speak when working in a group

Outcome

• Links sounds to letters, naming and sounding the letters of the alphabet.
• Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experiences of books.
• Begins to read words and simple sentences.
• Children read and understand simple sentences.
• They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words.

Outcome

• They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others.
• Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
• Uses a pencil and holds it effectively to form recognisable letters, most of which are correctly formed.

Outcome

•  To speak audibly so they can be heard and understood joins phrases with words such as ‘if’, ‘because’ ‘so’ ‘could’ ‘but’

Outcome

• Enjoys an increasing range of books.
• Knows that information can be retrieved from books and computers.
• They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately.
• They also read some common irregular words.
• They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.

Outcome

• Children use their phonic knowledge to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds.
• They also write some irregular common words.
• They write simple sentences which can be read by themselves and others.
• Some words are spelt correctly and others are phonetically plausible.
• They handle equipment and tools effectively, including pencils for writing.

Outcome

• They listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions.
• They answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to stories or events
• To speak audibly so they can be heard and understood joins phrases with words such as ‘if’, ‘because’ ‘so’ ‘could’ ‘but’

Outcome

• Children read and understand simple sentences.
• They use phonic knowledge to decode regular words and read them aloud accurately.
• They also read some common irregular words.
• They demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.