Listening & Talking Understanding progression Understand and use familiar language: Taking part in structured play activities and Pronouncing familiar words accurately and with confidence. Understand and use unfamiliar: Participating in simple poems and short scripted role plays Develop and use strategies to understand previously unheard and unfamiliar language Listen to spoken texts which include an increasing range of vocabulary: basic personal information Talk about own life Understand cultural information about other countries Understand spoken language used in a variety of ways: Nursery Rhymes Simple stories Brief news reports Discussions on social and cultural matters Listen and respond in a variety of ways to presentations and or variety of media: One or more speakers Informal conversations Group discussion Knowledge of language will support understanding and help to determine and appropriate response Listen to and participate in a predictable and prepared exchanges: Respond verbally and non-verbally to straightforward requests Ask for help Use simple familiar learned words or phrases Listen and participate in exchanges with some unpredictable elements: Questioning independently and effectively Open responses Well-structured sentences Lead a conversation Developing capacity to engage in more spontaneous conversation Listening & Talking Assessment Advice activities may be used as powerful evidence of the learner’s ability to understand and respond appropriately in a conversation or role‐play. Learners may also be asked to listen for information such as key facts from a news bulletin or story. Practitioners can plan to use the learner’s performance in paired or group talking activities to build up an ongoing picture of the learner’s ability to respond in conversations or role‐plays; some of these may be recorded for evidence purposes. Learners may also be assessed on presentations given to their peers or other audiences.
Reading Understanding Progression will consist mainly of familiar language and may be modified for ease of understanding. Initially this will be limited to understanding personal information and learned language. Text exemplars may include labels, simple instructions and signs. Simple original texts with an increasing range of vocabulary, some of which will be unfamiliar. Contexts for reading will be widened to include a growing of themes. This will include the life and culture of other countries. Readers will develop and use a range of strategies to work out meaning, e.g. scanning for information; recognising cognates; using contextual clues Reading will be supported by word lists and other support materials and may still require teacher support. Readers will be increasingly independent, using bilingual dictionaries with confidence. Less support will be needed from word picture banks or displays. Readers will access an increasing variety of texts, e.g. Fairy tales Easy readers Rhymes Instructions Recipes Poems Text messages Jokes Tongue twisters Reading Assessment Advice Learners will demonstrate developing skills through planned activities such as searching the internet for information in the modern language on a project, reading from a range of texts for information on events or reading an extract from a novel which fits in with their topic. They will demonstrate their understanding and progress in a range of ways, such as sequencing picture prompts, summarising key points or following instructions.
Writing Understanding Progression Experiment with creation of words and texts through play. Copy simple words to label and phrases to express personal information. Use knowledge of language, e.g. phonics and sentence structures, to build up understanding of the ways in which words and sentences can be formed. Demonstrate understanding and knowledge of language by adapting texts to suit own purposes. Cover a variety of themes and writes for purposes other than to give personal information. Extend beyond statements to giving opinions and reasons. Use writing frames to support the creation of an increasing variety of texts, e.g. Letters Emails/blogs Postcards Poems Recipes Stories Use a bi-lingual dictionary to check accuracy of written words. Use reference materials and other texts to plan longer pieces of writing and check the accuracy of their own and others’ work. Writing Assessment Advice Learners’ performance in a range of writing activities in class can be used as ongoing indicators of progress. These could include amending and personalising short texts, representing the findings of a class survey, writing instructions for a game, entering news on a class blog, composing slides for a presentation, or writing their opinions on a theme. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT Listening and Talking Reading Writing
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