Learning goals

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The supported learning goals are identified by mapping the product against the selected reference curriculum and soft skills definitions most relevant for the 21st century.

• Experiencing and exploring sounds and music from different sources
• Practicing keyboard skills and touch typing
• Using technology as a part of explorative process
• Practising visual recognition
• Practicing to observe spoken and written language
• Practicing categorization and classification
• Practicing fine motor skills
• Practicing memorizing skills
• Practicing letters, alphabets and written language
• Creating requirements for creative thinking
Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
Practicing to set one's own learning goals
Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning
Practicing persistent working
Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts
Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
Learning to face failures and disappointments
Encouraging to build new information and visions
Using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read.
Understand books by predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far.
Understand books by answering and asking questions.
Understand books by predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far.
Understand books by making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done.
Understand books by discussing the significance of the title and events.
Understand books by checking that the text makes sense to them as they read and correcting inaccurate reading.
Understand books by drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher.
Discussing word meanings, linking new meanings to those already known.
Learning to appreciate rhymes and poems, and to recite some by heart.
Apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (morphology and etymology), as listed in English Appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words that they meet.
Read further exception words, noting the unusual correspondences between spelling and sound, and where these occur in the word.
Apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (etymology and morphology) as listed in English Appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words they meet.
Re-read these books to build up their fluency and confidence in word reading.
Read aloud books closely matched to their improving phonic knowledge, sounding out unfamiliar words accurately, automatically and without undue hesitation.
Continue to apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words until automatic decoding has become embedded and reading is fluent.
Re-read these books to build up their fluency and confidence in word reading.
Read aloud accurately books that are consistent with their developing phonic knowledge and that do not require them to use other strategies to work out words.
Read common exception words, noting unusual correspondences between spelling and sound and where these occur in the word.
Read accurately by blending sounds in unfamiliar words containing GPCs that have been taught.
Respond speedily with the correct sound to graphemes (letters or groups of letters) for all 40+ phonemes, including, where applicable, alternative sounds for graphemes.
Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words.
Learning to notice causal connections
Practising visual recognition
Practicing to observe spoken and written language
Practicing categorization and classification
Practicing letters, alphabets and written language
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Practicing creative thinking
Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
Practicing to find ways of working that are best for oneself
Practicing persistent working
Practicing to notice causal connections
Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts
Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms
Learning to plan and design own written content and textual representations
Learning the basics of spelling
Practicing keyboard skills and touch typing
Using technology as a part of explorative process
Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
Learning to face failures and disappointments
Learning to combine information to find new innovations
Learning to build information on top of previously learned
Practicing to notice causal connections
Supporting student to build their own linguistic and cultural identity
Enabling the growth of positive self-image
Practicing communication through different channels
Read other words of more than one syllable that contain taught GPCs.
Read words containing taught GPCs and –s, –es, –ing, –ed, –er and –est endings.
Read accurately by blending sounds in unfamiliar words containing GPCs that have been taught.
Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words.
Understand books by discussing the significance of the title and events.
Listening to and discussing a wide range of poems, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently.
With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing.
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
Read words with inflectional endings.
Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.
Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds (phonemes).
Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.
Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.
Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds.
With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
Read easily, fluently and with good understanding.
Practicing to observe spoken and written language
Practicing memorizing skills
Practicing letters, alphabets and written language
Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words.
Understand books by making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done.
Understand books by checking that the text makes sense to them as they read and correcting inaccurate reading.
Understand books by drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher.
Discussing word meanings, linking new meanings to those already known.
Write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences.
Acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language.
Learning to notice causal connections
Practicing persistent working
Practicing to look things from different perspectives
Learning to recognise and evaluate arguments and their reasonings
Developing problem solving skills
Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts
Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms
Learning the basics of spelling
Learning to build information on top of previously learned
Practicing to notice causal connections
Practicing versatile ways of working
Define words by category and by one or more key attributes.
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds.
With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Spelling the days of the week.
Spelling common exception words.
Spelling words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught.
Apply simple spelling rules and guidance.
Read common exception words, noting unusual correspondences between spelling and sound and where these occur in the word.
Respond speedily with the correct sound to graphemes (letters or groups of letters) for all 40+ phonemes, including, where applicable, alternative sounds for graphemes.
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