Key Stage 2 Framework for languages

Learning objectives: Literacy - Year 4

L 4.2 Follow a short familiar text, listening and reading at the same time   View this objective over 4 years >> Learning opportunities Make links between the spoken and written words Identity common spleiing patterns in letter strings   Knowledge about language Recognise that texts often have the same conventions of style and layout as in English   Language learning strategies Use prior knowledge of text types in English or other languages   Teaching activities Working in groups, listen several times to a native speaker model, an audio, CD, a simple familiar song, poem or extract from a story, while following the words. Join in, chanting some of the text as a class. Choose text cards as the teacher calls out words and phrases. Play and extend Anagram Jigsaws: familiar words are cut up into individual letter cards, and in small groups children work together to re-build the words. Play Pass the Anagram Parcel: listening to authentic music or songs, the children pass round the circle a bag containing letter cards which, when all out of the bag can be used to spell a familiar word. Each time the music stops, the child holding the bag takes out one letter card, identifies it by its name and places it in the middle of the circle. The music re-starts and the game continues until all the letters are in the middle of the circle. All children try to guess which word can be spelled with the letters. Sort word cards into dictionary order by their first and second letters; children are given frequent practice in sorting words alphabetically by playing the Dictionary Sorting Game - working in groups of four or five, each child holds a text card and must stand in dictionary order, e.g. banana, berry, biscuit, bottle, butter. When ready, extend to include the first two letters of each word being the same, then the first three. Complete a reading jigsaw by putting text cards in the correct order, reading some of the words aloud. Play Find the Missing Words: Looking at a familiar written poem with all the rhyming words removed and written on word cards, children re-build the poem correctly, then read it aloud. They then jumble up the rhyming words and re-read the nonsense poem aloud. Use ICT to practise and apply these skills. Cross-curricular links View all Year 4 Literacy cross-curricular links >> NC English KS1 Reading 1l: Focus on meaning derived from the text as a whole NC English KS2 Reading 2d: Use their knowledge of other texts they have read NC English KS2 Reading 4i: Read stories, poems and plays aloud