Conventions of Language: Scaffolding Learning From 0.5
Indicators of Progress
- Students comprehend and say simple one-event sentences that are grammatically correct, for example, simple active voice sentences, imperatives and simple question forms.
- Students improve their ability to articulate sounds and pronounce words accurately.
- Students improve their ability to recognise smaller sound units in spoken words, for example, to rhyme words, to link a shared sound pattern with a meaning to predict words, that is, their phonological knowledge
Teaching Strategies
During speaking and listening: Tuning in to ideas
The learning and teaching approach for speaking and listening is illustrated for students responding to the story The Little Red Hen.
Basic sentence structures
Students practise using grammatical rules such as forming past tense by adding ‘- ed’ to regular verbs. Use pages from the story that illustrate these rules and ask students - The pig listened to the goose. What did the pig do?
Students respond in complete sentences, - The pig listened to the goose.
Students will be asked to practise using other verbs and characters from other pages of the story – The animals gossiped.
Students learn and practise talking about the ideas in simple active-voice sentences. Give the students a key word from the story, for example brushed . The children say a complete sentence that contains the given word.