- To acquire new words through direct instruction and assigned independent language exercises
- To use picture clues to make predictions about the content of reading material
- To demonstrate recognition of short, simple words
- words To infer the meaning of new words through familiar contexts
- To respond to simple questions before and after listening
- To develop strategies to identify simple spoken words and short sentences and their meaning
- To recognise short, simple familiar words and phrases
- To use reading strategies to identify the meaning in short, simple texts
- To use short sentences to participate in simple exchanges based on learned models
- To use knowledge of punctuation to identify the meaning of what is being read
- To alphabetise a list of simple words