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NLS Framework for teaching

Reception Term Reception 

Sentence

Fiction and poetry: a wide variety of traditional, nursery and modern rhymes, chants, action verses, poetry and stories with predictable structures and patterned language.
Non-Fiction: simple non-fiction texts, including recounts.

Grammar and punctuation

PUPILS SHOULD BE TAUGHT:

Grammatical awareness

1. to expect written text to make sense and to check for sense if it does not;
2. to use awareness of the grammar of a sentence to predict words during shared reading and when re-reading familiar stories;
3. that words are ordered left to right and need to be read that way to make sense;
4. to use a capital letter for the start of own name.