Pre-Primary Foundation

Identify some familiar texts and the contexts in which they are used

Listen to and respond orally to texts and to the communication of others in informal and structured classroom situations

Use interaction skills including listening while others speak, using appropriate voice levels, articulation and body language, gestures and eye contact

Deliver short oral presentations to peers

Identify some differences between imaginative and informative texts

Read decodable and predictable texts, practising phrasing and fluency, and monitor meaning using concepts about print and emerging contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge

Use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently

Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge

Participate in shared editing of students' own texts for meaning, spelling, capital letters and full stops

Produce some lower case and upper case letters using learned letter formations

Construct texts using software including word processing programs